VMware View 5 – Configure and Deploy Clients in ‘Kiosk Mode’
Nov17

VMware View 5 – Configure and Deploy Clients in ‘Kiosk Mode’

KB ID 0000610  Problem Kiosk mode is quite useful, if you have some machines that you want to put in a public area for visitors to use, or for machines that are used in displays etc. Or if you have some older PC’s that you just want to repurpose as internet terminals or ‘point of sale’ box’s. Essentially it’s a system that delivers a virtual VMware View desktop to a PC or Thin client without the need to...

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Rename / Change all File Extensions In a Folder and All Subfolders Recursively
Nov17

Rename / Change all File Extensions In a Folder and All Subfolders Recursively

KB ID 0000896  Problem I long time ago this site was hosted in my dining room, on a PC under my desk. I was running Windows and IIS. When I moved the site to a hosted Apache Linux server, I discovered that Linux is a little more rigid on its rules for file extensions. For example in Windows .JPG and .jpg is the same thing, but on a Linux box that’s NOT the case. As I’ve used the Windows Snipping Tool a lot in the past my older...

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Cisco – Automatic Re-enrollment Fails to MSCEP/NDES
Nov17

Cisco – Automatic Re-enrollment Fails to MSCEP/NDES

KB ID 0000970 Problem I’ve covered setting up NDES at length in the past, but what happens when your issued certificates expire? If you are using them for all your VPNs what then? Well thankfully you can get your devices to automatically re-enroll and before they expire, for example to renew the cert at 80% of its lifetime you would use the following; crypto pki trustpoint PNL-TRUSTPOINT enrollment url...

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WDS  Deploying Windows  Part 3: Carry Out an Unattended Deployment
Nov17

WDS Deploying Windows  Part 3: Carry Out an Unattended Deployment

KB ID 0000738 Problem In part two we built our reference machine and took an image of it using WDS. Now to automate the deployments we need to create some unattended answer files, these will answer all the questions that the Windows 8 machines will ask while they are building. We will take those files and import them into the WDS server we configured in part one. Finally to make sure everything is working we will deploy Windows 8....

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Excel – Creating a Dropdown Box ‘From data on another sheet’
Nov17

Excel – Creating a Dropdown Box ‘From data on another sheet’

KB ID 0000711  Problem My wife asked me how to do this today. I don’t use Excel much, most people think because I work in IT I know everything about all software packages, and they are surprised when I’m asked questions like this, and I say ‘I don’t know I’m a network engineer’. But seeing as it was for the better half, I fired up Excel and worked it out. (This must be worth at least a cup of Tea!)...

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