Office 365, SharePoint, Azure, OnePlace Solutions & Life's Other Little Wonders
I've been running Microsoft Edge (Chromium) as my primary web browser for a long time. All of a sudden it has become painfully slow to respond. Simple webpages just get stuck trying to load (the spinning in the tab header stops spinning)It takes SECONDS for keystrokes to appear on screenScrolling is laggy I tracked the... Continue Reading →
My setup is 2 external monitors (displays) and my laptop. My particular laptop is a Surface Pro 6 and I've got the external displays connected via the Surface Dock. I work a lot with Remote Desktop Sessions. Typically my development virtual machine stays open all day full screen on display 3. In this setup I... Continue Reading →
With modern web development I find I'm using Visual Studio code as my IDE the majority of the time. During a recent developer bootcamp I shared the way I open projects and realised that some of the techniques I use wasn't common knowledge. With web project in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) you need to open... Continue Reading →
I've been using the new Microsoft Edge browser as my default browser now for several weeks. I initially missed some Chrome extensions that made my life a little easier and the Microsoft Edge Extensions store hasn't got much to offer yet. That was until I realised that Microsoft has made it possible to install extensions... Continue Reading →
Lets start with a little bit of history, the year was 2008, Windows PCs and Microsoft Office had been entrenched throughout organizations around the globe. We saved all our files on a network drive (if we were smart), or SharePoint if we were really smart and had a dedicated engineer that could keep up with... Continue Reading →
The Insider Dev Tour is such a great event for Microsoft developers, you get the key announcements and latest news that came out of the Build Conference, delivered locally in a more intimate and interactive environment. Best of all it's a free event put on by Microsoft. I was very grateful for the opportunity to... Continue Reading →
I wrote a blog post a while back about the disappearing mouse cursor in Visual Studio on virtual machines that I'd connect to using remote desktop. It seems the problem is more widespread and affects most input or editing controls across many applications in the remote desktop session. For example the mouse cursor disappears in... Continue Reading →
If you read my blog you are probably working with IT everyday and are familiar with the fact that all your family members (and extended family) use you as the family IT help desk - if only you could charge them your hourly rate... A frequent family help desk call is the one you get... Continue Reading →
The high density (DPI or Dots Per Inch) of modern screens such as a Surface Pro can cause numerous issues when trying to use Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) to remotely connect to another machine. Add an external monitor to the mix and you’ll be pulling your hair out before long at all. These are the... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Surface Pro 4 doesn't have built in LTE capability (at the time of writing this). What this means is that your Surface Pro 4 can't connect to the internet on its own. It needs to connect to a wireless network/hotspot, or use a USB adaptor to provide access to the internet (e.g. physical Ethernet... Continue Reading →
Cameron Dwyer 