This blog explains how we can create a self-signed development certificate trusted by Microsoft Edge. As a bit of background, I’m doing some testing in a local Hyper-V lab to stand up a sample App-V streaming server. Be mindful that … Continue reading
This blog discusses escaping quotes and backslashes in JSON. I was doing a deep(er) dive into Microsoft’s Package Support Framework for MSIX recently, and wanted to have a play around with some of the “fixups” provided. Whilst I was fiddling … Continue reading
This is a quick blog post explaining how to convert MS Word to PDF for Amazon KDP IngramSpark Lulu and Draft2Digital for Free. For those who are tech-savvy and budget-conscious, self-publishing can be an excellent alternative to paying a publisher … Continue reading
I was publishing a module to the PowerShell gallery recently, and stumbled across an issue resulting in Publish-PSArtifactUtility Failed to Publish Module. It was my free MSIX Packaging Tool that I was struggling to publish, and the full PowerShell error … Continue reading
This post explains how we can run an executable after Windows logon. This could be used to invoke a background process once or every time a user logs in. The Windows Run Registry Key The Windows registry contains the following … Continue reading
Have you ever been using Microsoft Edge and tried to launch a Teams URL, or maybe a Citrix Receiver URL, and received the Microsoft Edge prompt This Site Is Trying To Open [protocol]? In older versions of Edge you might … Continue reading
We have recently experienced the Twitter API giving HTTP 404 Not Found when requesting a token to authenticate users on one of our websites. The issue appeared suddenly through no changes in our own code. What suddenly started happening is … Continue reading
This blog explains how to use Visual Studio to publish an unreferenced assembly to the Bin Folder. There are lots of examples on Google that provide explanations on how to copy unreferenced assemblies (DLL files) to the bin folder at … Continue reading
$packageRoot = Get-AppvClientConfiguration | where Name -eq PackageInstallationRoot | Select -ExpandProperty Value $packageRoot = [System.Environment]::ExpandEnvironmentVariables($packageRoot) $jarFiles = gci ($packageRoot) -rec -force -filter *.jar -ea 0 | where Name -like “*log4j*” | select -ExpandProperty FullName foreach ($jarfile in $jarFiles) { $PackageId … Continue reading
When organisations redirected their documents folder in Windows 7, it often led to administrators seeing a redirected Homeshare folders displaying as Documents on the network share. Microsoft documented the issue here. Administrators could simply display the ‘Filename’ column as in … Continue reading