by Dean | Feb 5, 2014 | Backup, General IT, IT, Restore, SharePoint
A customer wanted to archive Share point sites when they were finished with them to a file to keep the share point site clean. After consultation it was decided that exporting the site was the best option. Now it has time for one of the sites to be imported back in....
by Dean | Feb 4, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service)
Turns out that the previous idea of how to do the permissions was going to end up being a lot and lot of work and probably terribly difficult to maintain and expand. So another way was needed. After a few days of thinking and playing with variable variables. (Which...
by Dean | Feb 1, 2014 | General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Webtech
After some work I have changed the way I am going to do permissions. For more information check this post. So I am working on a Software as a service application (SAAS) and one of the major feature requests have been to be able to grant specific permissions into the...
by Dean | Jan 22, 2014 | Crazy Idea, IT
The following can be used in a batch script to check if a system is 64Bit or 32Bit. @echo off :START REM SYSTEM Check IF EXIST %WINDIR%\SysWOW64\NUL GOTO :64BIT goto :32BIT :64BIT REM Run 64bit command goto :END :32BIT REM Run 32bit command goto :END :END Just add the...
by Dean | Jan 15, 2014 | Backup, Disaster Recovery, General IT, IT, Restore
I know that this title sounds a little nasty, or broad. It was originally going to be called Sabotage, but after some thought I realised that this disaster may not be intentional. It may be ignorance, or a series of mistakes, laziness or sabotage plain and simple. I...
by Dean | Jan 9, 2014 | General IT, IT
If you have a large network that has a large number of machines not connected to the domain but still have access to a shared local network printer. e.g. Remote sites that act mostly as thin clients. Here is a quick way to manage the printers on those sites. Download...
