Monthly Archives: February 2013

Running a Powershell script as a Scheduled task which uses the Excel COM object (Open, refresh data, save & Close)

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Brad Saide

This issue has been giving me a bit of grief lately – I’ve been doing some funky things with Excel and SQL Server Integration services to extract data from the web, do some pre-processing, then import it into a database … Continue reading →

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Run SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Features with a Standard licence (Microsoft Supported)

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Brad Saide

I have just read a report that indicates Microsoft accidentally released a patch for 2010 which included a DLL that neglected to check for whether or not the current installation being upgraded was Enterprise or Standard, and dropped an Enterprise-version … Continue reading →

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Send To Kindle on Windows 8

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Brad Saide

Amazon’s reader app, Kindle is brilliant. It lets you read books from both your personal collection as well as ones you buy online. There’s an app you can download for your PC called “Send To Kindle” – It lets you … Continue reading →

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