Reacting Positively to Criticism

June 3, 2009

Shawn Grant from Channel Connect has published a very good article on Reacting Positively to Criticism. Well worth the read.

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Three Little Words Every Leader Needs to Learn

May 30, 2009

My boss recently sent around an excellent article by Rosabeth Moss Kanter from Harvard Business School titled “Three Little Words Every Leader Needs to Learn“. Those three words are “I was wrong”. People respect you more when you admit to mistakes, that you don’t know the answer to their question(s), or that you’re man/woman enough […]

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Understanding Microsoft Licensing for a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Environment

May 27, 2009

Here is an excellent whitepaper titled “Understanding Microsoft Licensing for a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Environment” that simply explains the licensing requirements without needing a PHD to sift through the information and Briefs posted on Microsoft’s Overview of Licensing for Virtualization web page. More specifically I’m referring to the Brief on Licensing Windows Vista for […]

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WFCRUN32 Error – Failed to set Event Logging

May 12, 2009

A message box may appear titled “WFCRUN32 ERROR”, with the message being “Failed to set Event Logging.” as per the following screenshot:

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HTTP Default Icon issue

May 12, 2009

Sometimes you may find that the HTTP URL shortcut icon is “broken”; referencing %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll,0 instead of %SystemRoot%\system32\url.dll,0. This is due to a bug that does not consistently set the default type and data for the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HTTP\DefaultIcon value. When the icons are not displaying correctly, it will have a default value of type REG_SZ with Data […]

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I will use Google before asking dumb questions.

May 10, 2009

I thought this was quite funny and couldn’t resist referencing it 🙂

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Deployment Script for the Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy Tools

May 10, 2009

A good friend of mine, Warren Simondson from Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy, writes some awesome tools. There are a particular set I use for all Terminal/Citrix Server deployments I refer to as “User Self-Help Tools”. The below script is what I use to deploy them. Simply add the tools you wish to deploy to an array. […]

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Using a Group Policy WMI filter to test for a registry value

May 10, 2009

I wanted a clean and simple way to prevent group policies applying during an automated build process. This is because it can potentially cause some of the components of the build process to fail. One of the last tasks to run on all servers built using my unattended build method will stamp the registry with […]

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Automate the population of the user’s MS Office Credentials

May 10, 2009

This script will add the user’s correct Username and UserInitials to the MS Office registry key to prevent the first time prompt when a user runs up a program in the Office suite. It has been specifically designed to populate the values for multiple versions of Office as per the arrVersions array. Please review the […]

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Enable Clock on Task Bar for Windows XP and 2003

May 10, 2009

Microsoft made it a real challenge to automate the enabling of the Clock on the taskbar. Some clever people worked out how this can be achieved several years ago by manipulating certain bits of the Settings binary value under the “Stuckrects2” registry key. However, it would only take effect on the 2nd logon, because the […]

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