Windows – Search the Internet from the Start Menu
KB ID 0000394 Problem I think this is a feature that should be enabled by default, perhaps it will be in Windows 8. Essentially just a quick policy change and you can perform an internet search with your default browser and search provider, straight from Windows Search/Run box. Solution Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links NA
PowerShell Web Access
KB ID 0001036 Problem One of my goals for this year is to become more proficient with PowerShell. During my studies I came across PowerShell Web access and thought it was so cool, I’d have a play with it. What is PowerShell Web Access? It’s a web service that runs on a Server 2012 IIS web server. It lets you remote connect to that host (via https) and then launch a PowerShell secure connection to any machine in your...
Exchange / Outlook – Security Alert – “The security certificate was issued by a company you have not chosen to trust”
KB ID 0000454 Problem Out of the box Exchange 2007 and 2010 comes with a “Self Signed” digital certificate. That’s OK for getting you up and running but your Outlook clients may start to see the error below. Error: Security Alert Information you exchange with this site cannot be viewed or changed by others. However, there is a problem with the sites security certificate. The security certificate was issued by a...
Deploying Office 2010 via Group Policy
KB ID 0000464 Problem What used to be the simplest task, has now been overly complicated (Thanks Microsoft!) Simply deploying from a single .msi file would have been far too easy! This procedure uses group policy to install Microsoft Office 2010 via group policy. It uses the Microsoft preferred method of employing startup scripts. Below I’ve also disabled UAC, I found it was stopping my automated install, (If I ran the script...
IE9 – Stop “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons”
KB ID 0000466 Problem This morning my boss asked me “Why every time I open Internet Explorer does it ask me this?” To which I replied, “I use Chrome so I don’t know, But I’ll find out.” Solution A brief internet search returned, just set the “Ask me later to a nice long time”. But that’s still not disabling it. If truth be known its a good thing, i.e. is trying to be helpful and...