Monthly Archives: December 2009

Certificates – A Minor Technology Update

December 3rd, 2009 | Posted in Coding, Device Management, Mobility Rant

A couple of weeks ago I performed an upgrade of my LAN at home. A trusty old Pentium 4 that had been doing it’s duties as a Windows Server 2003 domain controller showed signs of old age, and kept locking up at an increasing rate. I’m guessing that the hard drives, and possibly a couple of the fans had started to take enough of the abuse :) Trying to fix it wouldn’t make sense economically, and while I’ve spare parts and computers with similar specs I wanted to go 64-bit. It all ended up in me re-installing two low-end PowerEdge tower servers running Windows Server 2008 to 2008 R2. The improvements in Hyper-V was one of the reasons, but while at it I thought it would be a good idea to upgrade the domain controller too. (Note to others out there running Linux-based NAS boxes: don’t assume they like 2008 DCs just because they boast AD integration, and worked happily with 2003. Samba can bite my shiny metal ass…)
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An executive summary of the NDES and Certificate Enrollment Web Services in 2008 R2.

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Lazy Dialing Made Accessible

December 2nd, 2009 | Posted in Coding, How-to's, Utilities

Have you ever been ever so slightly lazy when it comes to making phone calls? No, I don’t mean procrastinating when it comes to making calls you for some reason don’t feel like you’re in a hurry to do. But the kind of laziness where you feel it’s a hassle to pick up the phone to send an sms, and end up doing it on your desktop instead. I have a plug-in in Outlook that will let me send sms, or I could do it via something built upon Kannel, etc, so that’s sorted though. I decided to have a look at something similar for making calls from the desktop.
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The lines of code necessary to make calls programmatically.

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