Miscellaneous – Page 2 – Alkane Solutions

You Cannot Call a Method on a Null-Valued Expression

I was writing a simple PowerShell script to automate parts of a Microsoft Word document, and bizarrely the output error was telling me that you cannot call a method on a null-valued expression. But the confusing thing was that the...

April 18, 2019

Miscellaneous

Java Network Settings and the Browser Proxy

Recently I spent a few days creating and compiling a Java Deployment Rule Set and signing it with an Active Directory certificate. After much stress it worked like a charm on my development machine, but wasn’t working in production! And...

February 14, 2019

Miscellaneous

Code Signing Certificates with Expiry Dates and Timestamping

When I set about signing a Java deployment rule set with a code signing certificate, I noticed that my certificate had an expiry date of 1 year from the current date. My initial thoughts were that I didn’t want all...

February 4, 2019

Miscellaneous

AppSense Regular Expression for Microsoft Office

I needed to add a new rule to AppSense recently on process start. I wanted the rule to only run when a Microsoft Office application was run. We required an AppSense regular expression for Microsoft Office since there are multiple...

December 6, 2018

Miscellaneous

Create a Code Signing Certificate

Ok, this post is shameless plagiarism from this post. But I couldn’t risk losing sight of good content. Thanks (and apologies) go to David Barrett! Here we discuss how to create a code signing certificate using Active Directory certificate services....

November 15, 2018

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Browsium Ion and Browser Authentication

I set up a Browsium rule recently to render a SharePoint 2010 site in IE8 Standards mode. But initially Browsium Ion and browser authentication weren’t playing nicely together, and each time I launched a browser session with the Browsium rule...

October 30, 2018

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Browsium Ion with HTTPS and Proxy Authentication

I’ve been using Browsium Ion with HTTPS and Proxy Authentication recently. I was trying to force the default ‘Edge’ emulation mode to run in ‘IE8’ emulation mode over HTTPS instead. HTTPS and Proxy Authentication For HTTP URLs it worked fine. ...

September 13, 2018

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Disable ‘Managed Mode’ in Mcafee

I was testing an app on a Virtual Machine (a P2V of the client build) and I had a feel McAfee was preventing something from functioning. To test this I needed to disable ‘Managed Mode’ in Mcafee. This is how I did it:...

September 29, 2015

Miscellaneous

Add a Right-click Context Sub Menu

I’ve been creating a few tools recently for a client – scripted tools which perform specific tasks on MSI (Windows Installer) files. Because we’re likely to create multiple tools and I don’t want the context menu to get too long...

June 26, 2013

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Category: Miscellaneous

You Cannot Call a Method on a Null-Valued Expression

Java Network Settings and the Browser Proxy

Code Signing Certificates with Expiry Dates and Timestamping

AppSense Regular Expression for Microsoft Office

Create a Code Signing Certificate

Browsium Ion and Browser Authentication

Browsium Ion with HTTPS and Proxy Authentication

Disable ‘Managed Mode’ in Mcafee

Add a Right-click Context Sub Menu

PowerShell Script Support for Installing and Uninstalling Intune Win32 Applications

Use PowerShell to Read MSI Windows Installer Properties

Evergreen Application Packaging converting Winget to MSIX

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