June 2008 - Posts

• Everything you wanted to know about Server ActiveSync but were too afraid to ask

  For those of you who have been living under a rock recently, Server ActiveSync is the Microsoft protocol which enables Windows Mobile-based devices to communicate with an Exchange Server to remotely synchronise Email, Contact, Calendar and Task information Read More... Posted 29 June 2008 08:50 by jamesl | 0 Comments

• How do digital certificates work?

  You will all have seen the symbol of the padlock in the bottom of your browser window, and may even refuse to buy things over the Internet unless the web site you’re viewing has one You will all have seen the symbol of the padlock in the bottom of your Read More... Posted 22 June 2008 15:43 by jamesl | 0 Comments

• Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services

  Terminal Services is a component of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server Terminal Services is a component of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server. If you have used Remote Desktop to remote control another Windows-based computer, then you have used terminal Read More... Posted 22 June 2008 10:02 by jamesl | 0 Comments

• TCP/IP - An Introduction

  You will all have heard of TCP/IP and know that it is somehow used by the Internet, but what it is really and how does it work? Today’s communications equipment is sufficiently advanced that it is able to determine automatically the best parameters to Read More... Posted 21 June 2008 09:17 by jamesl | 0 Comments

• Nokia Intellisync Mobile Suite 9.0 for Windows released

  Nokia have released version 9.0 of the Intellisync Mobile Suite remote email / device management platform. This release is for the Windows platform, rather than Linux as was expected and may still be in the pipeline. Despite the 9.0 version number, there Read More... Posted 21 June 2008 08:07 by jamesl | 0 Comments

• Troubleshooting Email Connections

  Troubleshooting email problems Last week I blogged about troubleshooting 3G connections, and pontificated on how users of today's mobile data devices are spoilt in terms of the ease with which they can be installed and set up for use. Having looked at Read More... Posted 14 June 2008 11:15 by jamesl | 1 Comments

• Virtualisation – what’s it all about?

  Virtualisation is very much the buzz word of today and, whether you like it or not, is going to affect the way you work (although you may not even know that you have been “virtualised”), and for that reason I thought it would be worth a blog post. This Read More... Posted 12 June 2008 18:57 by jamesl | 0 Comments

• Troubleshooting 3G Connections

  Field workers today are, quite frankly, spoiled. The devices we use to connect to the Internet while on the move are becoming increasingly faster, easier to install and easier to use. It is easy to forget to days of dial-up connections, of manually editing Read More... Posted 10 June 2008 13:12 by jamesl | 1 Comments