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Disable Hardware Acceleration in Outlook 2013

Not all computers work better with hardware acceleration, especially those with incompatible drivers.

A couple of users contacted me asking about “white screens” and freezes in Outlook 2013. The simple solution is to disable the hardware acceleration…

Display all saved WiFi Passwords

We’ve all been there, wireless passwords tend get lost.

There are several tools to retrieve the missing information, but I strongly believe that the less stuff you download from the web, the safer you are. So why not use the built in functions instead?

Detect and Elevate a PowerShell session

We’ve set out to help a customer with automation within their IT department.
Some daily tasks require an elevated prompt, there is no way around it. But it’s not obvious how to check if the current prompt is elevated, or how to elevate the session. So here is a how-to…

Uninstall all Java versions

I received an inquiry from one of my mid-size (100-200 users) customers today. They’ve been planning on implementing a new online service which requires the latest Java version.

The clients have a large quantity of outdated versions of Java, which needed to be uninstalled before we deployed the newest version.
They are currently running Windows 7 and Windows 8, so somewhat modern operative systems.

Azure Backup Mail Report Script

Jocha previously released a very popular mail report-script for Windows Backup. A downside with the new Azure backup-agent is that it did not offer mail reports… until today!

Windows 2008 wont use Trusted Sites

Windows 2008 wont use Trusted Sites

Today I ran into an issue with Internet Explorer on a Windows 2008 R2 server.
I have a GPO that pushes Local Intranet and Trusted sites but they would not be visible through the GUI in Internet Options.

Special characters in HTML

Special characters in HTML

When you want to write special characters in a HTML document sometimes it will interpret it as code. Heres a list of the most commonly used characters and what to replace them with.

WordPress: Hacks for the Media Uploader

WordPress: Hacks for the Media Uploader

Today I implemented Fancybox on the site. Although Wordpress had to be hacked a bit for this to work. By default WP will add a bunch of weird classes and properties that will screw up plugins. This is how I managed to fix it.

Auditing Group Changes in Active Directory

Auditing Group Changes in Active Directory

A customer of ours asked us to look into making their environment more secure. However we noticed that they did not audit Group/User changes in their Active Directory, we adjusted this and here’s a quick guide how to deploy it in your corporation.

Manage Windows Server 2008 from Server 2012

Manage Windows Server 2008 from Server 2012

After installing Windows Server 2012 and booting up you are welcomed by the new, greatly improved Server Manager.
This new tool is however not compatible with previous server versions out-of-box.

Access-based enumeration in Windows Server 2012

Access-based enumeration in Windows Server 2012

Yesterday I migrated our main file server to Windows Server 2012.
Noticed that Access-based enumeration was not working, I couldnt find the setting to re-enable it, or any good information on the web as to where it had gone.