Ramblings o' Techie

Thoughts, tips, tricks, and fixes for the IT person in you. I am an MCSE and support a wide variety of IT-related items at my job, including: Windows OS's, Exchange, Terminal Services, .NET, IIS, OS X, Microsoft Office, printers, phones, Linux, Adobe Creative Suites, and plenty of other hardware and software. Hopefully some of the solutions I find throughout the workday are useful to you as well

Thursday, April 7, 2011

"File does not have program associated with it" when trying to run any application in Windows

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Update 11/21/2011: After receiving a comment regarding this not working in the Run As Administrator mode, I did a quick search and found a...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Add custom field to tickets and email in osTicket 1.6

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I recently installed osTicket 1.6 for our property management group to use and have need to make some customizations. One of those customiza...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Remove orphaned Windows installer files to free up space

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Using Microsoft's msizap.exe utility, found in the Windows Standard Development Kit (Windows SDK), you can clean up orphaned installer...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Deploying Quicktime fails with "A newer version of Quicktime is already installed"

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UPDATE 10/13/2011:  iTunes 10.5 doesn't require Quicktime to run anymore, so hopefully this problem disappears, but if you're still ...
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Deploy iTunes 10.4 or 10.5 using group policy GPOs

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UPDATE 10/12/2011:  With yesterday's release of iTunes 10.5, iTunes no longer requires Quicktime. You can ignore all references to Quick...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

SQL Execution Error when creating a view from a linked server in Management Studio

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In my particular case, I'm using SQL 2005 SP4 to create a linked server to a SQL 2008 server. However, I know this happens in SQL 2008 a...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Fix event ID 13559 problem on a Windows server

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After migrating a standalone Windows domain controller to a VMWare environment, I noticed that some group policy objects weren't being e...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Deploy Google Chrome using .msi file and Group Policy

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To get started you can download an .msi installer file directly from Google at http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?msi=true . That's ...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Create subgroups of contacts in Outlook

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If you have a lot of contacts in your Outlook Contacts, you may wonder what you could do to try to organize those entries. One suggestion wo...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Setting remote desktop timeouts in the registry

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If you're using terminal server you should be using the terminal server settings, or even better, group policy. However, if you are runn...
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