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April 2008 - Posts

Unravelling the Office Ribbon

At last! Microsoft has made public the super useful Search Commands tool for Microsoft Office 2007! It has been an internal dogfood tool for a pretty long time now and I find it invaluable. Basically, it adds an extra tab to the Office ribbon called "Search" Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:31 AM by Daniel Oxley | 1 Comments
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Group Policy migration, without the headache

Someone asked me recently if it was possible to import GPOs created in a laboratory into a production environment, which was obviously a completely different Active Directory forest/domain. The answer is of course, yes you can. With the Group Policy Management Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:04 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments

A new era of music listening

I am down in Alicante at the moment working on a new project; it is nice to be near to the beach having plenty of sun instead of the current downpours and cold that we have been having in Madrid. Yes I know that summer in Madrid will be just as nice but Read More...
Posted Monday, April 21, 2008 2:51 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Getting burnt with DVD Burning

For a pretty long time I have used Nero Recode to create DVDs from the movies I take with my video camera. The other day it decided to stop working and crashed whenever I added my avi files to it with a nice helpful "StackHash_1703" error. The solution Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:52 AM by Daniel Oxley | 7 Comments
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Trigger happy events

The new Task Scheduler functionality that was introduced with Windows Vista is superb, it knocks spots off what Windows XP ever had; my favourite feature is the ability to fire a task if a certain event is logged in the Windows Eventlog, which is great Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:32 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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Dude, where's my GUI?

A colleague of mine, Daniel Matey , recently blogged about the efforts of another Microsoft person who has developed a GUI to help with the administration of Server Core. So for those of you who like the idea of Server Core but don't like the idea of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:24 PM by Daniel Oxley | 0 Comments
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