John Pollard's Technical Blog

I was struggling to install some new software (the superb new Live Local 3D view - I had an early internal beta already installed) and then remembered a handy tip. To find all currently installed MSIs, use the (hidden) folder c:\windows\ Installer . It Read More...

This one surprised me a lot when we found it. You can reboot a computer that is running IIS remotely by running the command: iisreset [computerName] /reboot It's been very useful today when we've been patching a whole rack of servers with security patches, Read More...

I'd never seen it before, and it turns out hardly anyone else in our team had either so I thought it was worth sharing. I was having problems accessing a particular resource on our internal network for which I had to use a particular proxy server. I set Read More...