“Developing For Office – Options and Trade-Offs”
DaleAccording to Bruno Terkaly, you have three main choices: Traditional Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Dates back to all the way to the early nineties. Visual Studio Tools for Office.…
Quick way of detecting the operating system running on a list of computers
The Microsoft Sysinternals PsInfo utility can do that for you. PsInfo is a command-line tool that gathers key information about the local or remote Windows system. Today’s example is how…
“Use of HP UPD is in my experience counter productive.”
Use of HP UPD is in my experience counter productive. If you need to print to HP use the CLJ 9500MFP PS driver (or PCL6 or PCL5c if you must).…
“Don’t drop it on the floor.”
On Friday, I blogged about opening the Seagate FreeAgent external drive. The reason I had to open the drive up, was that I dropped it on the floor, and it…
How to open the Seagate FreeAgent Go External Drive.
(very carefully) Step 0 – read all these instructions before trying this yourself. In particular, you can probably get away with removing the top cover only. Step 1 – using…
Setting up your very own SCCM 2007 test box (version 2)
Note: this is a work in progress. This has been a bit of trial and error, but to setup a standalone Active Directory Forest/Domain and SCCM 2007 Primary Server, on…
Honk, hooooonk. “Get out of the way, it’s the Unix/Linux guys …
wanting to drive their *nix truck through your network security." This is one of my annoyances with Windows & Unix/Linux (collectively known as *nix) security. The annoyance starts with a…
Two SMS 2003 servers, one returns different data format for same query.
Problem When doing a database query via SQL, one of our Microsoft SMS 2003 Servers (MILDRED) was returning an incorrect number of characters (8) for a field. The field was…
Installing an ActiveX on a Windows XP PC.
Ironic, when I think about it. That I’m still supporting an operating system I first supported in 2001. Today’s support query, I have an ActiveX which prompts the user to…
Questions I ask when I’m asked “What PC do I buy?”
What do you want to do with it? What's your budget? Are you technically minded? A "Yes" might lead you down the path of Linux and a "No-brand" or "White…