Microsoft has done a great job reaching their target audiences with recent announcements. Last week's BUILD conference is for developers and the keynotes touched on Azure cloud capabilities and other related offerings from Microsoft. The company's first Ignite Conference, held in Chicago this week, combined a number of other conferences and provided announcements targeted at IT … [Read more...]
KnockKnock, the Mac equivalent to Autoruns
Autoruns is a useful Sysinternals utility for Windows computers to quickly check all of the places a program can hook into Windows to launch automatically. This is useful for troubleshooting annoying behaviors of applications or malware infections. A similar application for Mac OS X is called KnockKnock. KnockKnock (UI) is a native Objective-C, portable application that you … [Read more...]
How to re-enable Java in Chrome through Group Policy
Google rolled out version 42 of the Chrome browser this week. Along with security fixes, the biggest change is the disabling of NPAPI plugins by default. This means sites using Java, Silverlight, and other plugins will no longer work in Chrome. This NPAPI deprecation has been a long time coming with the Chromium documentation starting in January 2014. The April 2015 stage … [Read more...]
Silently install Adobe Acrobat Reader DC
Following up on last week's announcement of Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC's release, this article documents the silent install options for Reader. When it comes to deployment, you typically want a silent install so it is not hanging a computer waiting for somebody to click the 'Next' button. To install the software is one part of the equation. To have it configured how … [Read more...]
Adobe releases Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC
Adobe made available the Adobe Document Cloud today along with updates Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC. Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC are the successors to Adobe Acrobat 11 and Adobe Reader 11. The update ties in more Adobe cloud services while also providing a new interface and more features. Adobe Acrobat Reader DC can be downloaded for Windows, OS X, Android, iOS, … [Read more...]