Run a router on Hyper-V

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I want to run a router on Hyper-V so that I can run many VM’s, each with internet access, on corporate and hotel networks. Microsoft touts Routing and Remote Access but there is no way I will go there. First it’s a total pain to setup and run. Second I need to run a whole Windows Server just to have basic DHCP and internet access. Overkill much! There must be a better way.

Solution – IIS SMTP Service 5.5.2 rejected: need fully qualified hostname

We had a small problem today with a new site we were going live with. It was refusing to send emails in 90% of cases. Problems like these are always difficult to identify, but your first step is always to enable logging. #Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 #Version: 1.0 #Date: 2010-01-09 18:49:30 #Fields: c-ip […]

The trouble with IIS6, .pac files and DNS

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Now, I have, up until now, not had any experience with proxy servers. Well, to be honest, I still don’t… But I do have some experience with IIS as I have been using it since the sad old days of NT4. Yes that’s right, before Active Directory, The bad old days when domains were the […]