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
There are multiple ways of using Excel to check if a value exists in another column such as manually using the ribbon, using a MATCH formula or using a VLOOKUP formula. Additionally there are clever things we can do to … 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
Removing duplicate rows in Excel is something that we use regularly to verify the data in our business intelligence-led migration projects. Luckily for us it can be done in a few trivial steps. Removing Duplicate Rows in Excel First we … Continue reading
Using Excel to find duplicates in a column is a simple task that can often add huge value to the accuracy of our data. We typically use Microsoft Power BI to spin data and drive our migration projects. But in … 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
I was writing a simple PowerShell script to automate parts of a Microsoft Word document, and bizarrely the output error was telling me that you cannot call a method on a null-valued expression. But the confusing thing was that the … Continue reading
Recently I spent a few days creating and compiling a Java Deployment Rule Set and signing it with an Active Directory certificate. After much stress it worked like a charm on my development machine, but wasn’t working in production! And … Continue reading
When I set about signing a Java deployment rule set with a code signing certificate, I noticed that my certificate had an expiry date of 1 year from the current date. My initial thoughts were that I didn’t want all … Continue reading