Tag Archives: Microsoft

Excel error: “There was a problem sending a command to the program”

Posted by dave on January 20, 2011 No comments

Everytime a user tried to open an Excel file on their machine, they were recieving the error: “There was a problem sending a command to the program”. This error was fixed by Going into Options, then Advanced and deselecting “Dynamic …

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Setting up a CA and Issuing Certificates in Windows Server 2008

Posted by dave on January 10, 2011 No comments

I’ve setup a lot of external certificates before, to improve security on our corporate websites and webmail etc. but I’d never really dealt with them much internally. We needed to do some testing on a https site before it went …

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Forcing Active Directory Photos with Lync 2010

Posted by dave on December 7, 2010 4 comments

With Lync 2010 setup (all be it very basic right now) it was time to take control. I started exploring what was possible via various policys for the clients. One of the features allows users to choose their own profile …

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Installing Lync Client 2010 via Group Policy

Posted by dave on December 6, 2010 5 comments

Ok, just quickly, this is how I rolled out Lync Client 2010 with Group Policy. I’m not running SMS or SCCM, and extracting the MSI from the EXE didn’t seem to work too well, and also required to much work …

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Installing Microsoft Lync Server 2010

Posted by dave on December 3, 2010 No comments

I set about installing Lync Server 2010 on a clean Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V VM the other day. Once all the Windows updates were installed and the DHCP reserve was set, I then loaded a few other bits and pieces …

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Matching Server 2008 w3wp.exe PIDs to Application Pools

Posted by dave on November 10, 2010 No comments

I have a new Windows 2008 Server up in t’ cloud and whilst checking it today, I noticed that memory usage was a bit higher than expected. I have a lot of websites running on this box and each site …

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Installing PHP 5.2.14 in Windows 2008 IIS 7 with MS SQL Extensions

Posted by dave on October 28, 2010 No comments

Every time I Install PHP on a Windows box I seem to encounter a new error. Anyway, I just got a new server up in the cloud and installed PHP on it yesterday, along with the MSSQL and MYSQL extensions. …

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Recover your Microsoft product keys with ProduKey

Posted by dave on July 30, 2010 1 comment

ProduKey is a great little utility from nirsoft that allows you to quickly and easily discover your product keys for Windows and Office etc. Handy for auditing or even just remembering which ones you used.

Deploy Flash, Acrobat and FireFox MSI’s via Group Policy

Posted by dave on July 28, 2010 No comments

It was about time that I get back to rolling out software via GP, so all existing and new machines all have the same up to date software. Certain packages that all the machines require are Flash Player and Acrobat …

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