Web Development

Setting up Outlook to use an LDAP server for contacts

June 10, 2007

I recently got a request from one of our users at a larger site to be able to have all the staff’s contacts in their contact list. Upon investigating what can be done with simple old Microsoft Outlook and Active Directory I was suitably impressed. What these two enable you to do is to link [...]

Pinging [oy] with 32 bytes of data:

May 20, 2007

Where the “oy” have weird little French double dot things on the top of them. You can still ping by IP address but DNS and a whole lot of other stuff is poked. Even a repair install didn’t fix this! I was beside myself until uncovering a little documented command.

CHM Files Not Working?

April 10, 2007

I ran into this the other day whilst on site, the symptoms typically include either “Page Cannot Be Displayed” or “Action Cancelled” errors when the user tries to run .chm files. I discovered this has occured since the introduction of Security Update 896358 (June 2005). In all cases this occurs where the chm file is [...]

Using PodUtil to rip your mp3s off an IPod.

January 9, 2007

Recently a mate of mine wanted a backup of his IPod as he was going overseas and it was likely to see some rough treatment. Easy I thought, plug the IPod in and copy the files off. WRONG! Apple wont let you do this and the music does not come up in “My Computer”. I [...]

Setting up a wireless network with Windows Server 2003 and PEAP/EAP.

January 8, 2007

PEAP with IAS is a great way to setup wireless networks that require: a)Their security to be top notch. b)Lot’s of Access Points (greater than 10 or so). c)Minimal administrative maintenance overhead. It brings your wireless security up to a level that is acceptable for use on a security sensitive domain. It is approximately as [...]

Offering Remote Assistance

January 8, 2007

No matter how many times I do it I always seem to forget the steps required to offer remote assistance using Windows XP/2003. It is hidden deeply under a few options that you have to click in the correct order to get to the right place. So here it is… To offer Remote Assistance without [...]

Using NTFS Resize

December 7, 2006
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Recently I found myself in a situation which required me to resize an NTFS partition in order to fit it onto a replacement HDD. In searching around and seeking some advice from a work mate I found the SysRescue Live CD (downloadable from: www.sysresccd.org) that has a tool on it called NTFSResize. This is a [...]

How to install a disk controller driver when Windows won’t boot following an upgrade of drive type.

November 7, 2006

I found myself in this situation on site about a month ago. I had upgraded (well okay maybe downgraded) a drive from SCSI to SATA and Windows would no longer boot. Normally in this situation I do a repair install but this time I was feeling adventurous and wanted to try something I had thought [...]

Reinstalling the InstallShield Engine.

November 2, 2006
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From time to time I have noticed that InstallShield will fail and corrupt itself. This will manifest itself in weird installation errors such as the following: Ikernel caused an Invalid Page Fault in module unknown. Setup failed to launch installation engine, no such interface supported. Error extracting support files: Class not registered. Although IKernel’s website [...]

Memory Testing

October 29, 2006

Often I find that if a computer is exhibiting weird behaviour including : blue screens, hard drive corruption, reboots and other strange phenomena, the fault is more often than not the RAM modules installed in the PC. But how can one be sure without going out and purchasing new memory modules and hoping that this [...]

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