The company I work for (C2C) are hiring. We are looking for Technical Support Engineers to work in our Reading, UK office. We’ll consider any experience level as long as the individuals show commitment, determination to learn / succeed and have a passion for technology. You might be right out of school / college, looking [...]
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A good week
February 1st, 2007
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This week (so far) has been good – in terms of completing things, productivity and new products. First off, Microsoft finally released PowerShell for Vista. No more having to ‘play’ on my old lab machine to get to grips with this stuff. There seem to be a number of people reporting failed installs(due to EFS [...]
IIS Integrated Authentication and Proxy Servers
January 3rd, 2007
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We had a customer issue yesterday that manifested itself as the user getting a HTTP 401 error when trying to connect to a Website (that is part of our Product). The user was logged into the domain, the virtual directory was set for ‘Windows Integrated Authentication’ so they should have been able to connect no problem. [...]
Sandcastle Documentation Generation
November 22nd, 2006
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At work I have been the champion of an Integration Framework for our Archive One product. This is a set of API’s, events and open file formats embedded into the Archive One products that allow customization ‘around the edge’. The kind of thing that can be done with the Integration Framework is running searches, interworking [...]
MAPI and Unicode PST files
November 16th, 2006
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At work we are heavily into MAPI (we provide email archiving solutions). MAPI is Microsoft’s mainstream supported and recommended protocol for accessing Exchange. There are currently two main versions of MAPI – ‘Exchange MAPI’ and ‘Outlook MAPI’. Exchange MAPI is the version that is installed when you install Exchange System Manager (ESM) and is the recommended [...]
Virtual Server Annoyances
October 25th, 2006
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The company I work for (C2C Systems) are a Microsoft Gold Partner this is great in that it gives us a whole bunch of licenses for internal use, it also gives us (almost ??) unlimited access to software for test, development and demonstration. The problem is :- Demonstration licences are provided for customer demonstration purposes only [...]
C2C Wins Microsoft Partner Program ‘Customer Experience Award’
October 3rd, 2006
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At the 2006 Microsoft Partner Program Awards, C2C (my employer) won the Customer Experience Award for outstanding customer service. Read all about it here.
Implementing SCRUM – Lessons Learnt
August 25th, 2006
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I’ve recently implemented the SCRUM methodology at work (C2C Systems). It has been a really interesting process, has taught us some very valuable lessons and provided a number of benefits : There are many things that go into the development process that people do not view as (or understand are) part of the software development [...]
Archive One – Policy 4.2 Released !!!
November 22nd, 2005
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The much awaited version 4.2 of Archive One Policy (from C2C Systems, my employer) is now available. You can find details here. The aspect I’m excited about is the Integration Framework (see here for the announcement). This opens up a whole new arena for us – we can be both subservient to other systems; and [...]
