So I am having some troubles and am learning too much about old technology. In short – my interface is COM visible to my VBA in my Excel code, but not the class. Crap – add the word public in front of class – fixed it. None-the-less here is a blog of what helped me […]
Sync.com seemed like a good alternative for sharing files AND backup AND version control. With any new system, someone tries to breaking (inadvertantly usually) and one needs to recover. Someone moved (copied actually) a sync SHARED folder to the desktop. There also was the same directory stuck in time on the proper spot – so […]
Well, it seems after these last ransomware attacks (which I have been a part of the reconstruction crew) I have learnend about other methods of connecting to remote systems. But RDP is a pretty lightweight protocol for remote connection – it works and it works well except for its vulnerability last quarter. So … if […]
I previously blogged about exporting files and metadata from Sharepoint. It worked!!!! Well, now that all the files are extracted – I have ended up with a csv. seems some double quotes are included – but a proper csv parser (eg. Excel) will turn those into 1 single quote The Xml column contains an xml […]
When you create a website with basic auth there is an unfortunate consequence in that there is no built-in method for logging out the user. Since basic auth username and password are stored on the client side, the server actually has no power to remove what is stored in the user browser’s cache. The solution? […]
In order to set this up for customers to use automatic file transfer via webDAV I found a really good website that seems to provide the perfect method except you skip the last step where you link it to the particular website. Here is the link. This allows the user to automatically update files on […]
Sometimes when you are writing a program in visual studios you suddenly come to the realization that one of the folders you are using in your program really doesnt make sense anymore. Maybe you changed what it does or it has evolved in purpose or maybe the original creator simply gave it a bad name. […]
What I have learned about SMTP. I have created a SMTP credentials on aws and I have assigned the main company email to that source. It however only has three locations, west US, east US, and EU. Since we live in Canada I figured US west would be the best one. This means that the […]
The following website is a step by step method of putting the SSL server certificate files in your website and then setting up the domain: https://www.geocerts.com/install/cpanel_11 From the looks and current state of our website, we need to add the option so that we can use the “Setup a SSL certificate to work with your […]
James’ updated instructions for dealing with a new website with IIS ******Possible troubleshooting it is possible that IIS manager may create the pool application for you; if it does it is possible that it may create this in version 2.0 of .NetFramework. Instead make this version 4 – Websiite – install IIS – make […]