by ds | Oct 15, 2013 | Administration
Using Windows 2000 Server nowadays still has some advantages, if you only need a cheap server system e.g. to provide USB license dongles access in your LAN. A workstation operating system like Windows XP, 7 or 8 is not useful in this case, because it limits the...
by ds | Oct 15, 2013 | Administration
Problem You want to distribute an MSI file via your Active Directory domain network with group policy application deploying feature. The application gets installed on some PCs, other ones show any of the following error codes, even after multiple reboots and running...
by ds | Oct 9, 2013 | C# .Net
For WPF beginners coming from Windows Forms, it may seem like it’s easier to use a ComboBox with the drop-down items loaded from an external database / Entity Framework than to work with simple static items. For DB access, you set ItemsSource (e.g. EF object),...
by ds | Oct 8, 2013 | Administration
Use this Powershell script to download a file via batch script in Windows: $client = new-object System.Net.WebClient $client.DownloadFile("http://www.xyz.net/file.txt","C:tmpfile.txt") Then save it as meow.ps1. If you want to run the script in Task...
by ds | Sep 21, 2013 | Administration
This error can happen on Windows domain clients for several reasons like HDD errors etc., which are mostly not reproducible. You try to login with your domain credentials and this message appears. Solution Log in as the local administrator, using...
by ds | Sep 18, 2013 | C# .Net
Scenario You use System.Data.Sqlite in your VS 2008/2010/2012 project and create your ADO.Net Entity Framework via Data Sources Designer and let the wizard create your DB entities and the connection string entry in App.config. The SQLite database is protected by a...
by ds | Aug 24, 2013 | Administration, Virtualization
ownCloud is a quite simple and effective way to synchronize files and folders over LAN / internet, especially if you want to access them from mobile devices like Android phones / tablets, or via web interface. The problem of ready-to-use cloud services like Dropbox,...
by ds | Aug 14, 2013 | Software
I noticed a problem with a newly configured ZBox ID41 in combination with a Zotac remote control (which was not included in the original package) and OpenElec 3.0/3.1. The remote basically worked, but it did not recognize some buttons like the green MCE button, even...
by ds | Jul 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Scenario You want your Zotac Zbox remote to control Zbox, your AV receiver and TV / PC monitor. Hints Use HDMI 1.4 cables. You do not really have to, but you can prevent bugs, as searching for CEC errors can be quite time consuming. Be sure you use an AVR that...
by ds | Jul 31, 2013 | Mobile phones
Scenario You use your own Exchange 2010 server with a self-signed certificate. So you need your root certificate to be copied to the client before you can access the server. Same with Android 4.x, but a quite useless “feature” was implemented with this...
