I’ve seen this issue crop up a few times now and I spend hours process-monitoring it and fixing it, only to find another occurrence a few months later! And since I have the memory of a fish, this time I’m … Continue reading
I’ve seen multiple Reddit posts, Microsoft posts and ‘User Voice’ posts requesting the ability to launch Microsoft Teams minimised in the system tray. The general consensus is that launching Teams in full screen mode is too invasive when users first … Continue reading
Every now and then when I’m debugging an application in a production environment, I need to override various configurations such as proxies and browser security settings etc. so I can figure out what the heck is going on! These settings … Continue reading
I’ve had to hack around with an INF file driver package in the past, either to create them from scratch or to amend them. And because I do it so infrequently I always forget what each section does! This is … Continue reading
When many business applications require multiple versions of Java, securing the Java Runtime Environment is of paramount importance. This blog post forms part of a Java series including: Java Deployment Rule Set and Active Directory Certificates Java Deployment Rule Set … Continue reading
Java Deployment Rule Set and Self Signed Certificates enable us to load browser URLs with different versions of the Java Runtime. This blog post forms part of a Java series including: Securing Java Runtime Environment Java Deployment Rule Set and … Continue reading
This blog discusses creating and signing a Java deployment rule set. It forms part of a Java series including Securing Java Runtime Environment and Java Deployment Rule Set and Self Signed Certificates. Java Deployment Rule Set and Active Directory Certificates In … Continue reading
You may have previously stumbled across the error 16389 for .Net Framework 4.6.2 as an SCCM Application. To resolve this I attempted the ‘fix’ provided here. But even when I checked the ‘Run installation and uninstall program as 32-bit process on … Continue reading
So a bit of background first. I’d been given an Office 2013 App-V application to fix. Each time it was launched the user was prompted with ‘First Run’, ‘Opt-In’ and licensing dialogs. I needed to suppress these prompts. This could … Continue reading
I’ve been configuring Google Chrome 49.0.2623.112 recently using the Enterprise installer (googlechromestandaloneenterprise.msi), for a legacy Windows XP environment. Anyway, here’s my recipe. We have manually created a master.preferences file: { “session”: { “restore_on_startup”: 4, “startup_urls”: [ “http://www.yourhomepage.co.uk/” ] }, “browser”: … Continue reading