by ds | Jul 28, 2014 | Administration
Older Mainboards seem to have a problem with the TFTP block size setting. When you try to boot the image via PXE, you see the white status bar filling up, but suddenly the error appears: “0xc0000001, a required devices isn’t connected.” In Windows...
by ds | Jul 28, 2014 | Administration
Adding an RSS feed via GPO is pretty simple, e.g. import the Administrative Template for Outlook and you get some options to create default RSS feeds. But there is no way by default to remove certain feeds remotely. You can only e.g. disable the whole RSS feature, but...
by ds | Jul 28, 2014 | MySQL, PHP
Problem Framework CakePHP sets strings to null which are loaded from database tables and contain special characters like German Umlaute. Solution In app/Config/database.php, add to your config array: ‘encoding’ => ‘utf8’ Example: public...
by ds | Jul 22, 2014 | Administration
There are some steps which can’t be (easily) done with group policy objects. So it makes sense to create your custom Windows image if you have e.g. 3 workstations or more. Microsoft offers software for deploying which is quite comfortable. In most cases, you do...
by ds | Jul 10, 2014 | Administration
Scenario You run a Windows server with MySQL DB, want to keep it up to date, keep all settings and the upgrade process should work as fast as possible. Unfortunately, the official MySQL upgrading guides are too detailed in most cases, however they don’t really...
