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Creating encrypted PDFs
Creating encrypted PDFs on a locked-down computer. Recently I have a request to send encrypted PDFs. The source file is an Excel workbook and I can’t install any software.
Managing Group Policy is never easier
In Windows 2012 R2, t o add in new Group Policy templates, just down the admx/adml files. Copy them to the %systemroot%\PolicyDefinitions folder. Admx files goes into the main, adml goes into the sub folder “en-us”. If you have GPedit.msc opened,…
Windows Drivers
Recently my computer got nuked because of harddisk encryption. The upside to this is a ‘new’ computer. So new that I have to reinstall my Android drivers. When I connected my phone, I accidentally chose the wrong Windows driver.…
M1 APN settings
M1 APN settings for Android and USB Dongle.
Did you change the settings?
Way back in the days of Wordstar, I used to reconfigure nearly every option, colors, backspace buffer, highlights etc. It was really easy, all the settings is in just one file. The single program instance helps a lot. When I…
SQL 2005 cluster upgrade.
The main SQL server is on a SQL 2005 cluster. It is time for an upgrade to SQL 2008. This will be an interim measure until the hardware refresh the later half of 2012. The main aim of the process is…
Sharing storage using iSCSI target
If you have lots of storage to spare, one way is to share it out via a file share. This is useful on a file server level. What about sharing spare disk space at the storage level? There are solutions available,…
Windows 2008 R2 server cannot login.
My SCCM server in the midst of deploying new clients when it started behaving strangely. Deployments started failing and progressively the server operations degraded and Windows Explorer stopped working. After a reboot, a domain user cannot login, all that is…
Window 7 SP1 patching by automated means
This is a reason why you should be slow to install Service Packs. I lost two PCs due to Service Pack installation. If the Service Pack install halfway and the user did not restart as requested. When another update is…