Blog entries tagged remote working

IE7 and IE8 - self signed SSL certificate not trusted?

Tom Finnis — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Although proper SSL certificates from providers such as Digicert and Verisign have become much cheaper nowadays there are still many occasions when you might prefer to just use a self signed certificate. One of the most common occurences of this is with SBS server, to provide SSL secured web services such as OWA and RPC over HTTP. However the certificate warning you get everytime you open the web site is annoying and maybe confusing for less experienced users. In older versions of IE you coulRead More...

Create a desktop shortcut to connect to an ESX VM console

Administrator — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

So we've got a nice fat ESX server running in our training lab with 20 XP VMs installed on it - and a bunch of barely IT literate users each with a desktop PC that is fully locked down so there is no chance of them screwing anything up. We want to give them access to the XP VMs so they can screw those up instead, e.g. see how much malware they can acquire in 10 minutes of unprotected Internet browsing. That means we can't allow any sort of network connection between our nice safe desktops andRead More...

Integrating OCS with Asterisk

John Hudson — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

We have been using Asterisk for the last four years; it facilitates our distributed model of operation, effectively bridging the gap between traditional PSTN and VoIP. Asterisk enables us to bring important customer calls into our head office via trustworthy ISDN technology whilst at the same time linking branch offices and remote users via VoIP. If we cannot make an outbound call with our SIP and IAX2 trunks, we simply fall back to ISDN.

Many organisations use Asterisk in conjRead More...