Battle of the Web Browsers – Who Uses Less Memory?
Within our group of web developers, we regularly review how a website will render across all web browsers to ensure everyone gets an equal experience. Of course, everyone has their favorites and everyone enjoys complaining about all the others. At work, I typically use Chrome or Firefox as I like the simplicity of Chrome and […]
Working with Outlook AutoComplete (.nk2) files
Working with Outlook AutoComplete (.nk2) files Outlook remembers and stores the e-mail addresses you type in the From, To, Cc, and Bcc boxes. When you begin entering a previously typed e-mail address, Outlook automatically recognizes it and completes the text for you. To accept a suggestion, all you have to do is press the ENTER key. For e-mail […]
Removing Hyperlinks in Excel
Excel and myself, we don’t get a long very well. Excel, for some reason thinks it’s really cool and neat that it can make anything that looks like a URL or email address clickable and making the text blue with a nice underline as an extra touch. I’m not particular fond of this. However, it’s […]
Removing Null Values from a Dictionary with LINQ
I don’t use Linq much, but when I do I’m amazed how awesome and fun it is. Here is a simple way to remove null values (note values, your keys should never be null, ever and if they are something is wrong) from a dictionary. Dictionary d1 = new Dictionary() { “key1” => “value1”, “key2” […]
Backup Exec Media Sets
A media set in Backup Exec is a set of instructions for how the software handles appending and if/when the media will be available to be over written. The default media set in Backup Exec is set to keep data indefinitely. This is good to get you up and running quickly, but is not what […]
SonicWall Syslog Data Extraction From Viewpoint
The SonicWall RAM log doesn’t scroll back too far, and if you are utilizing the SonicWall ViewPoint service on your network, you typically wouldn’t have a secondary SysLog receiver to gather log information. ViewPoint provides good visibility into network traffic usage after the summarizer runs, but there are definitely some instances where you need to […]
Reset Administrator Password on a Quickbooks Company File
There can be several reasons to reset the administrator password on a Quickbooks company file. For whatever reason, here is the way to reset the password. Before getting started it will be beneficial to have the following item at hand: -The Version of Quickbooks you are using. -Product License Key for Quickbooks. -The location of the Company file […]
Using an alternate port for Terminal Services (RDP)
There can be several reasons to use an alternate port for remote terminal server access. Perhaps you have only one public IP address, but need to publish two terminal servers on that address. Perhaps you want to hide the server using a non-standard port so hackers don’t see the terminal server as easily. Whatever the […]
RRAS Adapter’s DNS Entry Causing Issues with Member Servers
Today I worked on an issue with a client who has a Small Business Server providing AD/DNS, Exchange, and RRAS services among others. They also have a member server that does web content filtering. The problem was that after a patching session and reboots, the web filtering server would no longer accept remote desktop sessions. […]
Microsoft ending support for older OSes and Service packs. Are you one of the ones needing to update?
Summary: Basically if you’re up to date on XP and Vista you’re good. If your running Windows 2000 machines you need to upgrade to a newer version of Windows to keep getting updates and support. The following is taken from Microsoft Information and displayed here for Convenience: Windows XP SP2 & Windows Vista RTM End […]