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You Cannot Call a Method on a Null-Valued Expression

Posted on April 18th, 2019

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 →

Tagged null-valued expression, word.application |

Java Network Settings and the Browser Proxy

Posted on February 14th, 2019

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 →

Tagged Java, PAC file, Proxy |

Code Signing Certificates with Expiry Dates and Timestamping

Posted on February 4th, 2019

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 →

Tagged certificate expiry, Code Signing, timestamp |

AppSense Regular Expression for Microsoft Office

Posted on December 6th, 2018

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 →

Tagged AppSense, regex |

Create a Code Signing Certificate

Posted on November 15th, 2018

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 →

Tagged Active Directory Certificate Services, ADCS, Code Signing |

Browsium Ion and Browser Authentication

Posted on October 30th, 2018

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 →

Tagged browsium, proxy authentication |

Browsium Ion with HTTPS and Proxy Authentication

Posted on September 13th, 2018

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 →

Tagged browsium, https, ION profile flag, proxy authentication |

Disable ‘Managed Mode’ in Mcafee

Posted on September 29th, 2015

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 →

Tagged Managed Mode, Mcafee |

Add a Right-click Context Sub Menu

Posted on June 26th, 2013

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 →

Tagged CommandStore, Right-Click Context |

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