Passed my final CCNP exam on Tuesday (TSHOOT) with 986 out of a possible 1000 ! Wohoo !

I had heard the TSHOOT exam was difficult and I think I over-studied, spending the past 6 months procrastinating preparing for the exam. I chose to use the official CCNP TSHOOT book by Kevin Wallace as well as the official CCNP Video Mentor and Flash Cards, both from Amazon.

The book was easy reading and very relevant to the exam. By the time I went into the exam I must have read through it a hundred times. Self-test questions in the book helped me to identify areas that I needed to review before the exam.
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Tonight I decided to get around to signing up to iSKY so I could watch online sports from my laptop in the bedroom, rather than sitting in the main lounge where the decoder is located.

For those that don’t know, iSKY.co.nz is an offering from SkyTvNZ for subscribers, it allows you to :

• Stream content (movies, tv shows) that you have missed
• Watch Live Sport channels online (if you have an existing Sport subscription)
• Rent the latest movies on demand

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I found an issue with 2008 RD Web Access today for one of our clients that was working from home. Their home connection is on the same internal subnet as used in their office.

When connecting via RD Web access he ended up connected via RDP to one of his home machines. Connecting him manually into the Remote Desktop Gateway using his local RDP client was fine if Bypass RD Gateway server for local addresses was unticked. Checking the config on the server I found that the settings RD Web should push to the clients was correct and should have unticked Bypass RD Gateway server for local addresses. However it seems Remote Desktop Gateway Web service ignores Bypass RD Gateway server.
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