Programming and Software Development Archive

Centralized Desktop and Favorites with a Centralized My Documents?

Posted on July 31, 2010 | No Comments
What about Desktop and Favorites migration? Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a GPO that made the migration of your user’s Desktop and Favorites as easy as the migration of their My Documents? I think it would be nice. Since there isn’t, I created...
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Lockdown a Centralized My Documents

Posted on June 21, 2010 | 5 Comments
Recently a coworker and I were tasked with migrating the My Documents folder of all users to a central server. The obvious comes to mind for migrating users data; data backup. However, the true reason we were migrating our users files was to simplify workstation...
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Limiting the output of a SharePoint field in a dataview to [x] words.

Posted on March 31, 2010 | No Comments
This solution was created by a guy named Marc, the XSL templates he created are just, well, freaking fantastic! View his blog entry here: Displaying the First N Words of a Long Rich Text Column with XSL I have been looking for a solution to...
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Deploying Applications with the Possibility of a Slow Connection (Robocopy)

Posted on February 5, 2010 | No Comments
Regardless of which software deployment suite you use in your organization, there is no way to avoid transferring the majority of the installation files to the local machine, whether that is a file copy or a load into memory / temporary location. For small application...
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Move Files with Folder Actions and AppleScript

Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
In relation to my article on Combining PDFs in Apple Automator, I needed to automate moving files from one location to another, with the final destination name of the file being different than the original. At first I thought this would be 5 minutes in...
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Alert (Display Dialog) in AppleScript

Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
To display an alert or dialog prompt in AppleScript is easy, once you know the command string to use. For simple scripting, such as AppleScript or VBScript, I will frequently use alert dialogs to display the contents of variables. Hmm, any other reasons for a...
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Startup Notification

Posted on January 21, 2010 | No Comments
How do you know when an approved and domain-joined workstation is turned on prior to someone even signing into the workstation? Or maybe, you are asking, why would I even want to know this? For those that work with network vulnerabilities scanning, such as the...
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Combine PDFs in Apple Automator

Posted on January 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
There is a dream that I will become specialized in one area, with my aspirations pointed towards network engineering. However, until I get there I will be good at everything, a jack-of-all-trades that seemingly cannot understand the meaning of “no”. This type of quality creates...
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VCB Backup Script, vcbMounter

Posted on November 24, 2009 | No Comments
Although the VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) software receives considerable flack for lacking features or functionality, the fact that it provides you with access to the raw VMDK files is enough to alleviate all the missing functionality. As a side note, with Windows VMs, you can...
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Linux Backup Shell Script

Posted on November 23, 2009 | 2 Comments
Once again, I am pushing my knowledge limits with the Linux world. The exciting part is that, the deeper I go, the better Linux gets. Today, it is Shell scripting, which quite frankly puts DOS batch files out of business. Wait a moment, which came...
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