Enterprise Content Management (or ECM) is a system solution designed to manage an organization’s documents. Unstructured information—including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs and scanned images—are stored and made accessible to the right people at the right time.
Installing Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 from USB Drive
One configuration that I’ve recently ran into is installing it into a machine with no CD drive of any means. I know I could carry around a USB-based DVD drive but instead, I wanted to have a USB drive to install it from. After some research, I found that it was relatively easy to create such a tool! Either mount … Read More
Resetting a Polycom Phone to Factory Defaults
Sometimes when you get a used Polycom phone to save a few bucks you need to reset it to the factory defaults. You can try to format the phone to see if that helps clear out any old settings. Press the phone’s Menu button. Select Settings. Select Advanced. Type in the password 456 and press Enter. Select Admin Settings. … Read More
Adobe Distiller/Acrobat Issue – Cambria not found, using Courier.
Ran into a weird issue printing emails today to PDF format. Once the PDF was created it was actually just a text file that has some text that looked like this: Cambria not found, using Courier. %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: xshow ]%% Turns out this is a fairly well known issue and one workaround that enabled us to print was … Read More
32-bit Adobe with 64-bit Outlook
Trying to use the Send Email… option in Adobe Reader or Acrobat but you have 64-bit Microsoft Office installed? After dealing with this issue for many months I finally got tired of it and found a solution. It involves editing the registry so you have to be careful, but once you are done it will work like you think it … Read More
Quick way to generate a partially random string in T-SQL
Had a need to generate a partially random string in a SQL proc today. Came up with the following that is pretty short and sweet: CAST(CAST(newid() as varchar(40)) as varchar(8)) Idea was originally inspired from this link: http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=59194 and the post by robvolk…
Tired of “Outlook blocked access to the following potentially unsafe attachments: ….”?
Below is a simple way to get rid of that error. This was primarily taken from a Microsoft knowledgebase article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829982) Follow these steps to modify the registry and alter Outlook’s attachment security behavior on your computer. Exit Outlook if it is running. Click Start, and then click Run. Copy and paste (or type) the following command in the Open … Read More