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Net.pipe in IIS on Windows 8
While setting up a site in IIS for one of my projects I needed to add a net.pipe binding. I set up the binding, click ok and as greeted by this:It appears to be a null reference exception and I was...
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vSphere 4 License error
I ran into the following license error the other day..I needed to change the license after the automated installation. I wanted to change from the temporary license to the official license bundle we...
View ArticleFree Event! - Software Defined Datacenter Roadshow – Benelux
Would like to hear more about Software Defined Datacenters from experts like Frank Denneman, Mike Laverick, Cormac Hogan, Kamau Wanguhu and many others? VMware and IBM are organizing an awesome event...
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Nutanix New Hardware Platform – NX-3000
Nutanix's mission is to virtualize a datacenter without the need for a SAN. This approach allows for many benefits, such as buy what you need, when you need it and a reduction in complexity around...
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Auto Deploy: How to PXE boot without the use of native VLAN's
Today I visited a client who's routed network does not allow native VLAN’s. Normally the VMkernel network to PXE-boot your ESXi hosts must be a native VLAN and it's probably also designed that way. If...
View ArticleVMware Fixes VMCI Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VMware issued an update last Thursday resolving a virtual machine communication interface (VMCI) vulnerability in its ESX Server, Workstation, Fusion and View products that could lead to a privilege...
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Activate Windows 8 Enterprise Edition
I downloaded and installed Windows 8 Enterprise Edition, this version does not prompt you for a Product License Key during installation. This is probably because enterprise editions are meant for...
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Flash Virtualization Platform - PernixData
Yesterday newcomer “PernixData” announced their FVP product, if it does what they promise, it will be a game changer. Looking at the experience the founders have in the virtualization scene there is...
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SRM 4 after evaluation period.
Today we stumbeld upon something quite interesting. We’ve tried to configure (protect) some VM’s in SRM4. But all of a sudden there was something like “There are not enough licenses installed to...
View ArticleVMware announces public beta of vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager version 1.1
VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager is a component that enables support for heterogeneous hypervisors in VMware vCenter Server. It provides the following benefits to your virtual environment:An...
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UEFI BIOS and USB Install.
So my notebook got replaced a little white ago (I now have a Dell XPS 15 ) and it comes with a UEFI BIOS.Wanting to start with a clean slate to set up my development environment I downloaded a Windows...
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The Internet Explorer 10 Clear Button
The application I am currently working on uses a lot of AJAX calls to GET and POST data to and from the server. One of the features is an auto-completing search. We have a list of items, the user can...
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SQL injection in a parameterized world: because we love our dynamic queries
So, SQL injection.It has been around for quite a while nowIt has worked its way to being one of the biggest baddies on OWASP's top 10 beforeIt is working its way to claiming that spot once again in...
View ArticleSelf-hosting ASP.NET MVC – part I
Recently I was considering the technology to use for the GUI of a windows desktop client application I’m working on in my spare time. The standard picks are obviously WinForms or the more modern WPF....
View ArticleSelf-hosting ASP.NET MVC – part II
In the previous blog we discussed how to receive requests from the HTTP stack. In this post I’ll discuss how to host your MVC project.When hosting your project in IIS, your application is typically...
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Self-hosting ASP.NET MVC – part III
Now that we have a listener for HTTP requests, and a hosted MVC application, it’s time to connect them, which turns out to be more complex than it sounds.The way in which requests should be handed to...
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Explain like I’m 5: SQL injection and parameterized queries / prepared...
Recently, I was talking with a friend and they brought up the subject of my job. After explaining that I get to hack into companies’ websites, networks and whatnot, they asked the Inevitable Question...
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Houston, we've got no problems, only opportunities!
ITQ has been a Microsoft Gold Partner from very early on, and through the years their focus became exceedingly important to us.It was great to recognize that love comes from both sides and that ITQ...
View ArticleAppPool crashes and Rapid Fail protection
Yesterday, one of our production sites began to crash at random intervals. We managed to narrow the issue down to one specific user logging in at the time, and clicking on a number of (again random)...
View ArticleReactive Extensions and ObserveOn
I’ve been actively following and using the work of the Reactive Extensions (Rx) team from early on, as Rx is truly a unique library for working with events.However, some days ago I discovered something...
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