PCI Compliance and SQL 2005 don’t mix anymore
If you are running a PCI compliant system on SQL Server 2005 you are going to fail your next audit. One of the audit requirements is that the vendors must support the version of your software which you are running on. As Microsoft no longer offers support for SQL Server 2005 that’s going to cause…
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Recommended reading from mrdenny for June 10, 2016
Recommended reading from mrdenny for June 10, 2016. This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week. How many copies do I need? Amazon IoT Button Hacking: Part 1 Checkpoint process for memory-optimized tables in SQL 2016 and implications on the…
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Getting around annoying outbound firewall rules at venues when presenting.
Presentations that are given are user groups, events, etc. often require demos. Sometimes those demos are to large or complex to run on a laptop. To get around this problem people will use Azure for their demos. Doing this, depending on the demo, requires using RDP to connect to the VM in Azure so that…
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Sometimes you just need some physical hardware
We’ve been doing some really cool things in Azure recently with some of our clients as well as hosting our own websites in Azure pretty successfully. But we decided that sometimes just having some physical hardware comes in handy sometimes, especially when you want to build out weird or large environments to test things for…
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