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Public Space Analytics
Using Azure Machine Learning and high density WiFi to analyse customer behaviour We’ve been involved in the delivery of complex network infrastructure for...
Codify Evangelises DevOps for the Enterprise
On the evening of the 2nd October, Ben Parker and Microsoft’s Craig Box delivered a joint presentation titled “From Project to Ops, the...
WiFi Heatmap for Microsoft APC 2015
Since 2003, Codify has delivered the network infrastructure for several of Microsoft’s annual conferences. This year at the Microsoft Australian Partner Conference (APC...
Visual Studio Build Monitor: First Play with Windows 10 IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology that aims to expand the internet from outside its software realms and into physical...
TechEd 2013 Network Architecture
It has been a few drinks between backstage posts! Don’t mistake our quietness for a lack of action – TechEd 2013 infrastructure planning...
Wifi in the keynote: This is how it is done
We had just shy of 1000 concurrent users in the keynote. All the while everyone was tweeting, uploading photos and we were still...
TechEd build – Day 2
A selection of photos from day 2 of the build of TechEd 2011....
TechEd build – Day 1
A selection of photos from day 1 of the build of TechEd 2011....
auteched + apc 2011 Network Design
People often ask me for more information about the network design and implementation for tech•ed and APC. I finished off the physical design...
Infrastructure Saturday 2010 Slide Deck
We had a great time at Infrastructure Saturday on the 6th of November. An epic amount of work was put in by one...
We are presenting at Infrastructure Saturday!
Jorke, Ben, and I will be preseting a re-run of our popular session from TechEd 2010 at Infrastructure Saturday. Where: Microsoft Brisbane Office (map) When:...
Behind the scenes of the Giant Twitter/Flickr Wall
In case you missed it, there was a giant 6 metre wide plasma wall at TechEd that streamed tweets (from Twitter obviously) and...
Tech•Ed backstage 2010 – VOC208 – The Presentation
We did a talk on the infrastructure behind TechEd 2010 as one of the very last sessions of the event. The video is...
Frankly Speaking Episode 42
Andrew Coates and Michael Kordahi interviewed Jorke and I for their Frankly Speaking podcast. Tune in and listen; hopefully I was making sense...
tech•ed 2010 / APC 2010 IT Press Round Up
Here is a quick collection of the press articles specifically about the infrastructure. There are a lot of others about Windows Phone 7...
Day 2 Expo Hall Build
I managed to snap this quick video while waiting for some servers to build. [youtube -JXUT71Zpl8]...
We come in peace!
Thank you to everyone for the kind feedback on our recent BIGAU presentation both at and after the event. I couldn’t resist including...
tech•ed backstage @ BigAU – Tues 13th July 2010!
I will be presenting tech•ed backstage at the Brisbane Infrastructure Group. Guess appearances may include Nathan Wright from GCCEC and Ben Parker from...
abducted. returned. changed.
Toothless slack-jawed yokels win again Long time readers of this blog (and the tech•ed 2009 team who have to put up with my...
Never gonna give you up!
We mentioned in a previous post (see BitTorrent, traffic shaping and trusting users) that we had a small number of users who were...
BitTorrent, traffic shaping and trusting users
It has been a while since we have posted. We had the best intentions of writing a series of wrap up posts (JO...
Backstage on ZDNet!
Jorke and I ended up in a ZDNet video for a quick tour of back-of-house. Alas, my carefully laid plan to stay behind...
Now for something completely different – safety and destruction
I managed to grab Patrick Cronin (Jack Morton) on the floor for a few minutes during strike (“set” or “bump in” = building...
Intel wifi driver issue resolution
We did some further investigation into the wireless issue and came up with a work around. We’ve found that if you set your...
Day 1
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Diversity is good
Sometimes people think we’re over killing infrastructure asking for two or three more than we need of everything in network operations. Telstra has...
Random wireless network commissioning bits
(This post has been in my drafts since last week … we’re post commissioning on wireless now) One of these things is not...
TechEd setup, 2009
Empty trestle tables, waiting for PCs in the Technical Learning Centre...
When I said 16 percent I meant … 16 percent
You will recall our earlier posts regarding the performance problems with the Cisco WLC at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre. If...
Ensuring IP address allocation integrity with DHCP snooping
Nearly every IP network you use allocates IP addresses to clients via DHCP. There is a lot you can do with DHCP and...
The final coundown….
We hit some big milestone in planning land this last week. The week started with an integration meeting. A group of us from...
Internet Connectivity… plan A to F, plus a few more
I’ve not forgotten to post – I’ve just been busy undebacling a debacle. Everyone loves fast Internets. Providing really fast Internets at tech•ed...
Windows Server 2008 R2 NAT Performance – Guest post by the Windows Product Team!
[ The following performance analysis was submitted to tech•ed backstage by Arpan Gupta and the RRAS team. They own the RRAS/ipnat.sys components of Windows...
Resolving a hunch – wifi performance @ GCCEC
Previously you will recall we talked about the methodology we used to diagnose why the RF utilisation at GCCEC was so stratospherically high...
What is CCX and why should you care?
Early on in the history of wifi Cisco created some proprietary extensions called CCX (Cisco Compatible Extensions). These are now an open standard...
Diagnosing and resolving extremely high RF utilisation
What’s wrong with these pictures? I was given logon access to the WCS console at GCCEC at the start of May this year....
Making wireless work
If you’re interested in tech•ed and have been reading the blogosphere you’ll know that every paying delegate is scoring an awesome HP Mini...

Codify helps Queensland’s State Development department fast-track Azure take-up

On 26 June, 2017 / Case Studies

The IT professionals who drive State Development’s technology team enlisted Codify for a Cloud Lift Assessment across their line-of-business applications. Codify provided workshops, detailed analyses, and worked closely with State Development to address each phase of the proposed application migration in meticulous detail. This included planning, analytics, […]

Microsoft works with Codify to assess application suitability for Azure Cloud migration with Cloud Lift

On 26 June, 2017 / Case Studies

Codify were selected to migrate Microsoft’s digital marketing application suite to their Azure Cloud because of their broad expertise in successful Azure Cloud migration projects. Codify’s Cloud Lift Assessment eliminated most of the risks from Microsoft’s Azure Cloud migration project and delivered Microsoft’s digital marketing team needed a […]

Public Space Analytics

On 2 November, 2016 / Blog, Uncategorized

Using Azure Machine Learning and high density WiFi to analyse customer behaviour We’ve been involved in the delivery of complex network infrastructure for Microsoft for a number of years. One of the more challenging projects we regularly delivery is WiFi catering for several thousand concurrent users at […]

Codify Evangelises DevOps for the Enterprise

On 22 October, 2015 / Blog

On the evening of the 2nd October, Ben Parker and Microsoft’s Craig Box delivered a joint presentation titled “From Project to Ops, the Agile* way!” to the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) user group. Ben is a integral resource on a key Microsoft project for the Queensland Department […]

WiFi Heatmap for Microsoft APC 2015

On 10 September, 2015 / Blog

Since 2003, Codify has delivered the network infrastructure for several of Microsoft’s annual conferences. This year at the Microsoft Australian Partner Conference (APC 2015), we provisioned Internet services for 1200 partner delegates, executives and Microsoft staff. Delegates at the event enjoy very high speed wireless from over […]

Visual Studio Build Monitor: First Play with Windows 10 IoT

On 14 August, 2015 / Blog

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology that aims to expand the internet from outside its software realms and into physical objects and devices. It’s the idea that physical places, goods and machines can be made intelligent by connecting them to the Internet. Microsoft is […]

TechEd 2013 Network Architecture

On 12 August, 2013 / Blog

It has been a few drinks between backstage posts! Don’t mistake our quietness for a lack of action – TechEd 2013 infrastructure planning has been in full swing for quite a while now. The friendly folks at Telstra have commissioned our 1gbps Internet service. As always, it […]

Delivering Wi-Fi for Microsoft Events

On 25 July, 2012 / Case Studies

Executive Summary Codify has helped Microsoft run large scale wireless infrastructure with confidence. Codify’s careful RF design, planning and engineering supports thousands of concurrent users across each convention centre. Codify has delivered single room solutions catering to a thousand users. Business Scenario Microsoft operates a number of […]

Imagine Cup 2012

On 25 July, 2012 / Case Studies

Executive Summary Codify was engaged by Microsoft Corporation for the delivery of network engineering services to support the Imagine Cup 2012 world finals. This included specific sophisticated network security design considerations to ensure competition fairness. Over a thousand concurrent users were supported by the architecture. Business Scenario […]

Faces of Windows Server

On 25 July, 2012 / Case Studies

Microsoft: Faces of Windows Server Executive Summary Codify and George Patterson Y&R/Wunderman jointly developed the Faces of Windows Server 2008 campaign site for Microsoft globally. The campaign was run and deployed across 31 countries. The site employs advanced facial recognition and image processing technology. A single infrastructure […]

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