I have previously posted on the fun I had getting TFS running in our office. Well thus far it has been stable, other than some ‘user too stupid’ errors, and we have been fairly happy. The next stage was to expose the TFS server out through our firewall to allow home working. This turned out to not be too bad (expect some posts on our experiences with ISA server soon) but raised an interesting issue. ...
I was given a copy of JPod by Douglas Coupland for Christmas, now I will not be adding anything to the range of reviews to say it is very much Microserf V2.0 - similar story but it is just that people seem not to work as hard (but are still in the office as they have little life outside work) and the strange things that occur to them are very strange indeed. In Microserf you could believe it could happen, but JPod, well it is going a bit far. Also I agree with the comments that this book it is rather self referential. ...
Yesterday I posted about problems with accessing remotely the Virtual PCs from the Virtual Server console. It turns out the problem was domain name related. We had a different name on the internal DNS to that on the external side. In effect the server was trying to call: vmrc://virtualserver.mydomain.co.uk:5900/my pc when we should have been calling vmrc://virtualserver-external.mydomain.co.uk:5900/my pc even though we had actually accessed the system via http://virtualserver-external.mydomain.co.uk This has been fixed by getting all our DNS entries in line. ...
We have been moving over to ISA Server to allow better management of internet resources, one problem we have had is publishing our Virtual Server so our tele-workers can get remote access to the test systems. The ISA application publish rule works fine to allow access to the main Virtual Server console page (can create, start stop PC etc) but if you click on a Virtual PC you get a no connection screen, so you cannot actually use the Virtual PC. ...
As Black Marble is growing we have decided to split out our individual blogs, hence the opening of ‘But it works on my PC!’. BM Bloggers will remain an aggregate of all the various sub blogs, which will grow in number over time.