pmatz: the IT thing

Strange, not blogged for nearly a year - must be too busy at work! Also strange that my last blog is a precursor to this.  LDP.exe is a gr...

For getting info from AD in a text format, I'm finding LDP.exe which is part of the Windows Server 2003 tool-set VERY HELPFUL. Typical...

A neat little script which checks a specified folder ( here its C:\Presentations ) for the addition of a new file every 5 seconds ( WITHIN ...

I recently had an issue. I have a report which exports into Excel. The date format from the report is US, and I work in the UK. Excel tr...

Now my XBMC  is up and running : using wireless remote all media on mounted USB share (Samba installed so I can access across home netwo...

If you’ve made an iPhone ringtone before the process will be familiar to you. This will work the same on both Mac and Windows versions of i...

Ok, so what I wanted to do was to run the Office 2007 install but to only install the MODI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging) component whi...

It's very helpful to be able to know the registry settings for group policy settings, to enable simple scripting to automate the setting...

  Again I am looking at syncing tools.  Windows live beta has now gone and been replaced by Windows Live Sync. It comes as part of the 201...

Our Sky+ remote went down this weekend, and whilst you can get basic functionality with the buttons on the front of the machine, it's a ...