Monthly Archives: August 2012

How not to annoy people: emails, processes, and meetings

This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, building trust, dealing with crisis, and about schedules. I believe all point are pretty straight forward to understand on this topic. My key… Read More »

Schedules – impact on the team and on the project

This post is a continuation of my series extracted from Scott Berkun’s book: How to make things happen. In this series, I have already shared my thought and diagrams about making decision, about building trust, and about dealing with crisis. Below diagram is about schedules (not your personal schedule but a team schedule). The interesting… Read More »

Windows Azure – Virtual server – Enable TCP connection (open the door to Internet traffic)

I finally created an account for Windows Azure, it is quite easy to do so and the cost are very affordable (if you have a MSDN premium subscription as each Microsoft employee does :)). I never really had the opportunity learning in-depth IIS and ASP.net so now that I have this server available, I am starting! The… Read More »

Creating a Powershell session under a different set of credentials

Below code can be handy if you need to create a powershell session under a different credential than the one you are logged into. This allow to support multiple scenarios: Test role base access control Increase privilege for important operation [powershell] # Avoid displaying the UI prompt when creating credential object Set-ItemProperty ‘HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\ShellIds’ ConsolePrompting $true… Read More »