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
I needed to add a new rule to AppSense recently on process start. I wanted the rule to only run when a Microsoft Office application was run. We required an AppSense regular expression for Microsoft Office since there are multiple … Continue reading
Ok, this post is shameless plagiarism from this post. But I couldn’t risk losing sight of good content. Thanks (and apologies) go to David Barrett! Here we discuss how to create a code signing certificate using Active Directory certificate services. … Continue reading
I set up a Browsium rule recently to render a SharePoint 2010 site in IE8 Standards mode. But initially Browsium Ion and browser authentication weren’t playing nicely together, and each time I launched a browser session with the Browsium rule … Continue reading
I’ve been using Browsium Ion with HTTPS and Proxy Authentication recently. I was trying to force the default ‘Edge’ emulation mode to run in ‘IE8’ emulation mode over HTTPS instead. HTTPS and Proxy Authentication For HTTP URLs it worked fine. … Continue reading
I was testing an app on a Virtual Machine (a P2V of the client build) and I had a feel McAfee was preventing something from functioning. To test this I needed to disable ‘Managed Mode’ in Mcafee. This is how I did it: … Continue reading
I’ve been creating a few tools recently for a client – scripted tools which perform specific tasks on MSI (Windows Installer) files. Because we’re likely to create multiple tools and I don’t want the context menu to get too long … Continue reading