This post explains how we can run an executable after Windows logon. This could be used to invoke a background process once or every time a user logs in. The Windows Run Registry Key The Windows registry contains the following … Continue reading →
Have you ever been using Microsoft Edge and tried to launch a Teams URL, or maybe a Citrix Receiver URL, and received the Microsoft Edge prompt This Site Is Trying To Open [protocol]? In older versions of Edge you might … Continue reading →
We have recently experienced the Twitter API giving HTTP 404 Not Found when requesting a token to authenticate users on one of our websites. The issue appeared suddenly through no changes in our own code. What suddenly started happening is … Continue reading →
This blog explains how to use Visual Studio to publish an unreferenced assembly to the Bin Folder. There are lots of examples on Google that provide explanations on how to copy unreferenced assemblies (DLL files) to the bin folder at … Continue reading →
$packageRoot = Get-AppvClientConfiguration | where Name -eq PackageInstallationRoot | Select -ExpandProperty Value $packageRoot = [System.Environment]::ExpandEnvironmentVariables($packageRoot) $jarFiles = gci ($packageRoot) -rec -force -filter *.jar -ea 0 | where Name -like “*log4j*” | select -ExpandProperty FullName foreach ($jarfile in $jarFiles) { $PackageId … Continue reading →
When organisations redirected their documents folder in Windows 7, it often led to administrators seeing a redirected Homeshare folders displaying as Documents on the network share. Microsoft documented the issue here. Administrators could simply display the ‘Filename’ column as in … Continue reading →
An organisation we work with have removed Microsoft QuickAssist from their corporate build – presumably they saw this as a potential security risk. Here we explain how to avoid error 0x800f0906 by Bypassing the Windows Updates Server. We had an … Continue reading →
IR35 is a set of tax laws in the UK designed to combat tax avoidance by hiring companies and the workers that they hire. Here we explain how Alkane Solutions can assist hiring companies with compliance issues related to IR35 … Continue reading →
This post contains lots of useful Windows run commands and shortcuts! These commands are really handy for when these shortcuts are hidden or disabled by group policy. Windows Run Commands and Shortcuts Have you ever tried to launch a control … Continue reading →
I was setting up a web application recently, and was getting an error stating that the specified password is invalid for the application pool identity. It was suffering from the ‘double hop‘ issue whereby the windows authenticated NTLM credentials couldn’t … Continue reading →