Internet Explorer Security Tab Restrictions
DaleOne of our web developers contacted me, and asked how they could look at the settings for the Trusted Zone in Internet Explorer. The Custom Level and Default Level buttons…
Driver Packages and Drivers- Shall We Disambiguate?
This was originally a post by Bob Kjelgaard on his MSDN Blog Trouble Ahead- Trouble Behind. I’m going to repost it here, as it looks like the original content has…
Some Windows Phone 7 links
I’m looking forward to sinking my teeth into Windows Phone 7 programming. Especially since Microsoft has said the developer tools will be free. These are the Microsoft links I’ve collected…
Default security permissions on Windows Registry keys.
At work, I’m working on a registry key permission error. Something which worked on Windows 2000, now doesn’t work on Windows XP. It’s security related, hope to solve it today.…
Windows 2000 had Active Directory folders.
In Windows 2000 you could create a shortcut to an Active Directory resource, and turn it into an Windows Explorer view. One of my (now long gone) predecessors worked out…
Using %homeshare% seemed like a good idea at the time.
We used to hard-code a user’s home directory in a logon script; just like this: net use H: \\NODDY22\%Username%$ Of course, it becomes a problem when you need to change…
“No, you can’t upgrade Internet Explorer 6”
In a week when one of our customer’s senior management team said “No, we’re not upgrading Internet Explorer 6, we’re waiting for Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7” A user…
Reading the end of a log file with PowerShell
I needed to read the last line of a log file. PowerShell made it very, very, easy. All you need to do is Get-Content the file, and then pipe it…
Lonely little SMS 2003 .PCK files
The call came in: Noddy22 has less than 5% disk space left. Our Microsoft SMS 2003 servers are getting a bit tired, and we really don’t want to replace them…
The Windows PowerShell syntax was deliberately chosen
The Windows PowerShell syntax was deliberately chosen to facilitate ease of use and ease of learning. Corporate enterprise Windows administrators are the target audience. - Windows PowerShell Scripting Guide by…