Essentially they are logging/inspecting all traffic in the middle. BROWSER -> Proxy/Firewall -> Internat Website At the Proxy/Firewall side (it could be a IDS, IPS whatever) they are getting the data from the Internet Website, decrypting it, looking at it/storing it/ who knows, then passing the data on. Now, part of SSL (TLS these days) is not just encryption/decryption, but WHO you are/which websites. It is 'impossible', for your customer/Proxy to 'be' Lowes.com, so instead they re-encrypt the data with their own Certificate 'customerCA.com' for example, and say it's for the website 'Lowes.com'. So, the browser knows this, and says, but you went to Lowes.com, but the SSL cert is Signed by CustomerCA.com ... I'm not showing you this website, it's been hacked/broken etc. What everyone here means about 'installing the customer CA' is, that it's possible, to install 'CustomerCA.com' in a way, that makes it all ok for any website, so then when the proxy Generates new SSL Certificates on the fly/as you browse, for each website, your computer goes... yep, I trust CustomerCA.com, its all OK.... just like it does when it goes I trust LetsEncrypt CA, or VerisignCA etc. HOWEVER, that being said, I wouldn't install that thing, don't do anything on that connection. You want to setup your ROUTES on your system, so that only data for the customer's network goes via the VPN, and the rest goes via your 'standard' internet connection. This way, you get to browse Lowes.com all day long, but still be connected to the vpn, and secure. It tells the PC to go to the VPN for some traffic, and to your standard 'internet' for other traffic. The simplest way, it to tell the VPN adapter not to be your default gateway, but there are many ways to do this if you cant change it. https://pasteboard.co/KiKBxAZ.png[^]

Use the browsers manager for basic websites, say codeproject, and 1Password for everything else, it's never been hacked, and will protect your stuff better than you can. There are so many websites, the totally undisputed best thing you can do, is use a different password on each one. I can't remember them, so 1Password does.

I feel your pain, having a 4k screen, love it, FancyZones and all.... Share on Teams... nightmare.. Can only share an 'application' which like you say is pretty useless for brain storming/solving dev problems. Other Option, the quality is still cr*p but teach people to hold CTRL & Mouse Zoom Wheel. This will allow them to zoom in and move around, far from ideal but atleast they can see!

While things come back round, you'll find user expectations are way different. Everybody has an iPad or some touch device and wants instant touch and play on the reports. We've moved to Power BI (at great cost) and people love it. MS is putting a lot of effort behind it, and the desktop version is free if you just want to see what's possible. If you know excel, you can create a report simply (if the devs setup certified data sets or similar, or you have access to do so). You'll want the 'application owns the data' integration (MS website will lead you down P1 (£5k/month min) where you end up with all your customers on active directory)... However, you can just use an A1 (£700/month) under this method: Embed content in your Power BI embedded analytics application enabling better embedded BI insights for your organization - Power BI | Microsoft Docs[^] You can start with no cost, see what's possible. The user interface is great. What you can't do.... If you want a report of an 'invoice', this is not the tool for that. Then you're back at SSRS type reports in Power BI (also back to £5l/month min!) If you wanted an interactive report of say, all your stock, how it's sold over time and filter it by whatever you want, then this is the tool. If you want, it is possible to have a subset of user's with full power bi access... they can then create their own dashboards from all / any part of your reports. You can then make that available in your application. So there is a sliding scale of how much you use it. To anybody who's making simple spreadsheets and then wants some charts... go download power bi desktop for free and click 'get data' and choose your excel sheet... make a nice chart etc. and then you can update the sheet and the report updates too! Given that, if the reports are for INTERNAL use only (not customers) you can, actually use power bi with no cost, I know of one huge organisation that's doing that.. and we're like great, but if you want all these 1000's of user's to access it, it's going to cost you... so the MS grand plan to take your money works in the end!

Yes I agree, but isn't it interesting how the perception of things changes when you don't fully understand how it works... I wonder how many things I don't know how they work and do similar.

I like the way you worded this... "add .ipaddres.com" implies somehow that this is 'built into domain names magically', or some other mystical way of working. rather than, visit ipaddress.com, and search for your domain. Or go to the subdomain .ipaddress.com . Genius.

I had to upgrade to use Mailkit, SmtpClient doesn't support TLS1.2, so all of a sudden you can't send emails when your service provider decides to take security seriously.

Having done this myself, and feeling the pain right now, I'd still say go monolith first. Ultimately, any project is constrained by something. Your constrains are Time/Man power Money and right now, you're not worried about 1000's of users. If you come up with a good proof of concept app, use it yourself and love it, then you know you're on to something. next still will be making it look better. <-- many man hours here then try to sell it. <-- many man hours here Then, only when you get to say 100 users, you MIGHT have a scale problem (I'm guessing as I don't know your system/solution but you understand what I mean) Now, you've sold it 100 times/subscriptions. you can make real decisions. worst case you double up all your hardware to sell to another 100. pay other people (buy time) to re-write the app into a more scaleable solution. I'll be happy to discuss your idea/plan in private with you. I'm right in the middle of this myself. So would be good to bounce ideas. Direct message. Good luck.

I looked at your GitHub code. If you wrote half of that you're clearly very talented as a student. Although m understanding is you're checking the hash of files. so you now need a known list of viruses. Do you happen to know MVC and HTML. I could do with teaming up with someone for my web app with some coding skill.

Option 3 on live production servers. Seriously, how much time do you guys have to manually check everything? We pay more for MS products so someone else does the checking right? Save me my time!!! Also, for the last 4 years, never been a problem on win server 2008 r2 (yes, it needs upgrading...) Yes, it reboots, but you can tell it what time of day to do that.

is anybody else concerned by how many 'green ticks' there are for that? Now I know 'we' on CP would never run anything on our computers, but we do all head tech support for the family right? They are not so wise!

How do you find nopCommerce. I've never heard of it and using OpenCart at the moment... but would love to move to something I can code properly :) do they have a market place of modules etc.? - they do, just looked. Now, would yo say the people that use nopCommerce are 'cheap',, people who use OpenCart are v cheap and never want to pay for anything (mods etc.) really.

Yes... 1) Go rent a Virtual Private server with Windows Server 2008 onwards. make sure the data centre is a local to you as possible. 2) Remote Desktop 3) Install software as needed. 4) Regret paying for remote server 5) buy new computer 6) Repeat step 3 on new computer... painful. but it is possible :)

Oh right, that is rubbish. Have you tried a 3rd party app? I can't imagine why it would help, but you never know. I use Podcast Picker, and it has options in it's settings along the lines of 'when you press skip forward in your car, what do you want to do? skip track, skip forward 10 secs, etc.'. You'll be needing an app with really big buttons then so you can use it in the car! e it

If you use Windows tools, and want an easy life, don't get one that is 'extra validation' from Entrust.... few of the GUI tools support it, leaving you at the command line... while not 'hard', it's not simple or nice!

How did that go? On my phone (Lumia 920) it's called 'Connect in a different way to use Speech with Bluetooth in my car', and since messing about with it, I don't get text messages read out, so I'll tick it again and see what happens, it used to work.

I have a Lumia 920, Wife as an iPhone 4s.. my view. as other have said, stick with your chosen ecosystem. But if you're unsure, the advantages I get for having Windows Phone *Glance - see texts/emails/missed calls without actually turning screen on/off all the time *Wordflow - the keyboard is WAY ahead of iPhone, many times I can just tap on the list of words at the top... *Tiles - similar to glance, why do I want to open apps for every bit of info? I don't. *OneDrive/One note syncing, I really really like this. *Xbox integration/apps... these are almost always of very good quality, so saves a lot of time finding a game that's actually worth playing Advantages she has for having iPhone *App for our bank to check balances etc. I would really like this (they did a blackberry app FFS!!) *siri everywhere... he's built into the keyboard, which is great if you can't spell something, he's there... the Win Phone mic isn't always shown/isn't on the keyboard. Maybe Cortana will address this. *always first to get the latest apps. *always first to get the latest apps. <- takes up 2 points! And finally, don't believe what people say about a) iOS is simpler to use, or b) it just works.... I often need to figure stuff out for my wife and get emails etc. to work.

Glance on WP8, well, I would say 'amazing', it's not, it's what we all had before smart phones... but I wouldn't want to do without it. Emails/Facebook/Missed calls and the time all on your screen without having to turn on the phone is a HUGE feature compared to android/ios... it's a shame that this is true... we had this years ago!!

agreed, I really like how OneDrive/SkyDrive and one note all just 'work' across my Win8 and WinPhone8 devices... All my pics etc... It actually makes the Win 8 start screen 'photos' tile pretty good, since it shows my recent snaps from my phone :)

Did you try changing the Bluetooth setting for your car? worked for me, came with last update. Settings->Bluetooth->Advanced->tick box.