Disabling Java Automatic Updates on a Terminal Server and 64-bit Registry Redirection (Wow6432Node)
On a recently setup Windows Server 2008 R2 terminal server, Java was installed, and by default the JRE will enable automatic updates for all users. No daily users have administrative privileges, but all users are prompted to install updates. No users can actually install the available updates, nor can they disable the update check via […]
Why and How You Should Use Viral Video Marketing
DID YOU KNOW? Compared to TV ads, general recall, brand recall, message recall and likeability are greater for viral video. In 2009, it was reported that 84 percent of Americans online viewed video in May alone, according to cukerinteractive.com. That’s roughly 258,058,183 people who viewed video in a month. WOAH. So, if you’re any kind […]
Shoretel Extension Reassignment
When a Shoretel user travels to/from multiple offices, how do we set them up to make/receive calls at both locations? Recently I have seen cases where a single user is configured with two separate extensions in the Shoretel system, one at each site. Although this does give them the phone functionality at both sites, this […]
Getting the most out of your SonicWall – Network Monitoring through SNMP (Part 2 of 2) – Finding your STG Settings
Please see here for section 1 Now that you know you can monitor your network traffic through STG how do you go and configure it? You can use a simple program called GetIf to search for what ports you need to monitor on your SonicWall or other SNMP enabled Routers. Make sure to switch the Host […]
Forcing Softphone Incoming phone rings to go through PC speakers instead of headset
If you want the phone ring tone to go through the PC speakers and not a headset, this should fix you up. To force the incoming phone call rings to go through the PC speakers instead of a headset, you need to go into the properties of the sound card of the computer and change […]
Project Management – When Projects Go Wrong
Project Management – When Projects Go wrong It doesn’t matter how good our project plan is, how great the project team is, projects just go wrong. It is often times how you deal with the project when it gets off course that can determine the overall success of the project. I have listed a […]
SQL Server: The index “[IndexName]” on table “[TableName]” cannot be reorganized because page level locking is disabled.
If you’ve managed production database servers for any amount of time, you may have run into this error message in your maintenance plan logs. “The index “[IndexName]” on table “[TableName]” cannot be reorganized because page level locking is disabled.” This will cause your Index Reorganize step to fail. Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to fix. First, a […]
General election 2010
Here in the UK we have just been through (and, at the time of writing, are still enduring) a general election. This presents us with some fantastic datasets. The first place I turn to is the Guardian Data Store, and they provided this, which allowed me to create Election results dashboard below. Overview (blog) Powered […]
Remove Duplicates in Outlook
Those of you who use Outlook out there and leave your messages on the server, you will have probably had to deal with duplicate messages downloading either after you replaced your computer or Outlook had an issue and crashed. I have tried several tools for this but most had a limit to the number of […]
Why start another Tableau blog?
Those who know me from the Tableau forums or Twitter, or the UK Tableau User Group know that I love Tableau.Those that don’t know me: well, I work at the University of Oxford, and have been using Tableau since December 2007. Since then, I have been raving about it, Ancient Mariner style, to anyone who catches my eye. It’s […]