Microsoft Publisher Retirement
Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026 By now, everyone has heard that Microsoft Publisher Online will
Read moreStream Classic End-of-Life
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/streamnew/stream-classic-to-new-migration-overview#timeline Upcoming Milestones October 15, 2023 – Users no longer able to access or use Stream (Classic) unless admin takes
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SharePoint and Video
Microsoft has pulled the plug on Office 365 Videos.If your video sharing links contain “PointPublishing.aspx”, then they are referring to
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AWS Lightsail – Email Challenges
Summary: My opinion is that it would make more sense for Amazon to monitor email usage by established accounts, and ask
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Favicons for Fun
Disclaimer: This isn’t meant to criticize anyone – just to serve as a performance example. I have seen many developers
Read moreQA in Everyday Data
08/22/2020 – Update: The data problem is still occurring. I will run a simple SQL statement next, to fix the corrupt
Read moreQuality Center Object Notes
The attached article pdf is a document I provided several years ago to a mainframe-oriented audience, attempting to explain why
Read moreExample MVS Console Interface
The program below is written in MVS Assembler. It tests a call to the FTP2 program, which is possible because
Read moreJob Monitoring
Below is an example error message from an automated job monitoring system I created for a client. The event monitoring
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Twitter Share Link Format
When Twitter changed the user layout, it also changed the url that allows a website to share a particular page
Read moreWordPress, WP-Super Cache, and https: for the Insecure
One problem I’ve encountered with google search results, is that google will assume a site is https: whenever possible. This
Read moreObsolete PHP Directives
Although these 2 PHP directives have been deprecated for some time, your site will become unavailable if they are still
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Basic Composer Commands
Log on to SSH for your linux host, and enter the following commands. – to show the version of composer-managed
Read moreUpdate – preventing Windows 10 upgrade
This is an update to the earlier post on how to prevent Windows from constantly offering to upgrade to Windows
Read moreHow to customize your Website’s Error Pages (revised)
Minor update to the document, to change the following lines in the .htaccess file: Old: ErrorDocument 401 http://david-e-young.com/401page.htm ErrorDocument 403 http://david-e-young.com/403page.htm
Read moreWindows 7 Rollups and preventing Updates
The following Windows Update Rollups have recently been made available in the Windows Update utility for Windows 7 SP1 and
Read moreCode Signing after SHA-1 phaseout
Comodo and Ksoftware have been generously providing replacement certificates to current customers, as a result of the SHA-1 phaseout. The
Read morePreventing update to Windows 10 from Windows 7/8.1
Many Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users will want to keep their current operating system. To disable the Windows 10
Read moreDLL Registration – Win32 vs .NET
There are different methods for registering a Win32-based DLL, versus a .NET DLL. Win32 DLLs were typically created with legacy
Read moreGetVersion API and Windows 10
This document addresses two problems that can be resolved by updating the Application Manifest file for programs that are distributed
Read moreWindows SDK Downloads
Developers using older versions of Visual Studio, may need to download SDKs to author applications compatible with more recent versions
Read moreFirefox Downgrade and Reinstallation
About once a year, I go through the steps of completely uninstalling Firefox, deleting associated folders, and reinstalling the browser.
Read moreGetVersion API and Windows 8.1
This document addresses two problems that can be resolved by updating the Application Manifest file for programs that are distributed
Read moreWindows 10 Preview on Windows 7/VM Workstation
To test the technical preview of Windows 10, I followed the instructions at Petri Windows 10 how-to to safely install
Read moreIE9+ – Adjusting Toolbar Button Size
One of the items that annoyed me in Internet Explorer 9 / Windows 7, is that the toolbar (CommandBar) is
Read moreCHM Challenges with Windows 7
Microsoft has undergone several phases of security updates on Windows 7, that make it impossible to open a custom .chm
Read moreInstalling VB6 and VS on the same Windows 7 Machine
How to install Visual Basic 6 and Visual Studio on the same Windows 7 computer.
Read moreOutlook-friendly sender name in SMTP headers
When receiving SMTP emails from the mainframe with a “from” address claimed to be on the Outlook Server, Outlook may
Read moreRetaining HTML formatting in Dynamic Outlook Emails
One of the challenges when dynamically modifying emails created from Outlook templates, is retaining the original html formatting of the
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Simple WHOHAS routine
When another user has locked the file that you want to use, a simple way to identify that user is
Read moreUnicode in Batch Email Messages
Unicode Symbols can be used in Email subject lines, messages, and in some cases, other fields. This article discusses ways
Read moreMVS JCL Abend Checks
In the case of JCL steps, where checks are made for Abends on predecessor steps, consider the following example. If
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SVC 99 Example Program
This program will receive username, program name, and job name through register 1 linkage. A SVC 99 dynamic file allocation
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