From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Get Ready Now To Deploy Internet Explorer 8

in Windows

Unless you’re hell bent on deploying Firefox in your corporate environment (and managing it with Group Policy), here are some reasons why you should plan for Internet Explorer 8 now and deploy it when the final version is released: Compatibility View mode will ensure those internal web applications don’t break. Intranet sites are displayed Compatibility [...]

Tagged as: Internet-Explorer

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My Product Code Is Bigger Than Yours..

in Applications

I thought 25 character product keys where a pain in the proverbial, but this one takes the cake. I won’t tell you which application this authorisation code is for, but it’s a whopping 93 characters long.. AF3KALKNHEU777AGRBZ672EKB6I53P6VRND7PLPHCVFWGNSDNB4WYK55HE7YX2TWTLU78M8KLYZ4QERNT3K56OH6TSAXC (I’ve changed the code slightly to protect the guilty).

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WSUS Update for Server Manager in Windows 2008

in Windows

Microsoft have made available an update for Windows Server 2008 that integrates the WSUS 3.0 console into Server Manager. By default, Windows Server 2008 includes several server roles. Server Manager enables integration of additional roles and features that are available from the Microsoft Download Center and from Windows Update Web sites as optional updates to [...]

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Managing Control Panel in Windows Vista

in Workspace Management

At some point in your migration from Windows XP to Windows Vista you’ll no doubt be looking to manage which Control Panel applets are available to users. Controlling access to applets is no different than earlier version of Windows, but given that there are approximately 48 default applets in Windows Vista compared to 29 in [...]

Tagged as: Control Panel, Migration, Windows-Vista

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Disable Office User Interface Elements

in Deployment

Group Policy allows you to disable certain UI elements within Office applications, which you might want to do in the case of the Information Rights Management feature built into Office 2003 and 2007. I’m picking on IRM in this post about disabling UI elements, but you can disable all of the IRM features in Office [...]

Tagged as: Group Policy, Office-2007

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Adobe Customisation Wizard 9 Available

in Deployment

Adobe have made the Adobe Customisation Wizard 9 available for download for use with deploying Acrobat and Reader 9 applications. Good news is that this allows you to disable the Adobe Product Improvement Program window that some people have been having trouble disabling. I’m now in the process of updating my post on deploying Adobe [...]

Tagged as: Adobe

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What happened here today was a miracle

in Applications

“and I want you to f**king acknowledge it!” I kid you not, this is a error message I saw yesterday in an Oracle Forms application.

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