Deploying Applications with VMware ThinApp
Nov17

Deploying Applications with VMware ThinApp

KB ID 0000612 Problem ThinApp is an “Odd” VMware product, insofar as it’s got nothing to do with virtual machines or virtual technology. It’s a product that turns applications into “Stand alone” thin applications, that can be sent to a user and ran without the need for that user to have administrative access, or the need to install anything. ThinApp was a product called Thinstall that VMware...

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Creating and Deploying USB Portable Applications with VMware ThinApp
Nov17

Creating and Deploying USB Portable Applications with VMware ThinApp

KB ID 0000616  Problem The last time I wrote about deploying applications with ThinApp, it was geared towards getting standalone applications onto client PC’s for non admins to run, or putting them in a network share. But if you have a portable application the advantage is you can run it from portable media (Like a USB drive). Like before I’ll convert Google Chrome to a ThinApp, but the difference is I will set the...

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Deploying Applications with RemoteApp
Nov17

Windows Server 2008 R2 Deploying Applications with RemoteApp

KB ID 0000528 Problem RemoteApp is a solution for delivering applications to your users from a Remote Desktop Services Server. Why would you want to do this? Imagine you only had one copy of office to update in your entire organisation when a new service pack or security update is released., or Adobe bring out a new version of Dreamweaver that’s on all your machines – you simply update the master copy on the RDS server, or...

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Microsoft LAPS – Deployment and Configuration
Nov17

Microsoft LAPS – Deployment and Configuration

KB ID 0001059  Problem Microsoft have released the Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS). What is does is automatically change the load administrator password on workstations, (and servers if required) periodically. It then keeps those passwords securely in AD. Microsoft tried to mitigate attacks from the local admin account back in the days of Windows Vista by shipping with this account disabled, which is fine, but most large...

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iPhone – Bluetooth Problem
Nov17

iPhone – Bluetooth Problem

KB ID 0000374  Problem I wrote an article yesterday about tethering via bluetooth, and had a few problems, sorry to say the web was not much help at all 🙁 Basically the iPhone was marked with a yellow warning triangle, and when clicking the troubleshooting option you see the following, Error: Bluetooth Peripheral Device doesn’t have a driver. 2. I read some forum posts and the general advice was to download iTunes, extract the...

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