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SharePoint Technical Tips 

Stream Classic End-of-Life

November 25, 2023August 31, 2024

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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SES preview
AWS Technical Tips 

AWS Lightsail – Email Challenges

August 22, 2020May 23, 2021

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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Graphics Technical Tips 

Favicons for Fun

August 12, 2020May 23, 2021

Disclaimer: This isn’t meant to criticize anyone – just to serve as a performance example. I have seen many developers

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Data MySQL Technical Tips 

QA in Everyday Data

July 28, 2020August 22, 2020

08/22/2020 – Update: The data problem is still occurring.  I will run a simple SQL statement next, to fix the corrupt

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Example of Stripe Email Verification Tool
DNS Technical Tips 

Stripe Email Domain Verification

July 21, 2020July 23, 2020

07/21  Stripe recently added the ability to use custom domain names as the email sender for invoices and receipts, instead of

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Technical Tips 

Portfolio

April 11, 2020April 11, 2020

Please click Portfolio for recent Work examples.

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Legacy / Dinosaurs MVS Technical Tips 

Example MVS Console Interface

April 10, 2020April 11, 2020

The program below is written in MVS Assembler. It tests a call to the FTP2 program, which is possible because

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Legacy / Dinosaurs Technical Tips 

Job Monitoring

February 12, 2020April 10, 2020 ALC, assembler, rexx

Below is an example error message from an automated job monitoring system I created for a client. The event monitoring

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PHP Technical Tips Wordpress 

Twitter Share Link Format

December 14, 2019December 16, 2019

When Twitter changed the user layout, it also changed the url that allows a website to share a particular page

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Linux Technical Tips Wordpress 

WordPress, WP-Super Cache, and https: for the Insecure

November 3, 2019December 14, 2019 Apache, http, https, Web

One problem I’ve encountered with google search results, is that google will assume a site is https: whenever possible. This

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Linux PHP Technical Tips 

Obsolete PHP Directives

July 2, 2019December 16, 2019

Although these 2 PHP directives have been deprecated for some time, your site will become unavailable if they are still

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Technical Tips Windows 

loss of buildmypinnedsite.com services

April 28, 2019December 16, 2019
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Linux Technical Tips 

Basic Composer Commands

February 1, 2018January 24, 2019

Log on to SSH for your linux host, and enter the following commands. – to show the version of composer-managed

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Technical Tips Windows 

Update – preventing Windows 10 upgrade

March 19, 2017October 14, 2020 Windows 10, Windows 7

This is an update to the earlier post on how to prevent Windows from constantly offering to upgrade to Windows

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Linux Technical Tips 

How to customize your Website’s Error Pages (revised)

October 17, 2016January 24, 2019

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

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Technical Tips Windows 

Windows 7 Rollups and preventing Updates

October 14, 2016January 24, 2019

The following Windows Update Rollups have recently been made available in the Windows Update utility for Windows 7 SP1 and

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Technical Tips Windows 

Code Signing after SHA-1 phaseout

February 14, 2016January 24, 2019

Comodo and Ksoftware have been generously providing replacement certificates to current customers, as a result of the SHA-1 phaseout. The

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Technical Tips Windows 

Preventing update to Windows 10 from Windows 7/8.1

October 22, 2015October 14, 2020

Many Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users will want to keep their current operating system. To disable the Windows 10

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Technical Tips Windows 

DLL Registration – Win32 vs .NET

May 3, 2015January 24, 2019 .NET, DLL, VB6, Visual Basic, Windows

There are different methods for registering a Win32-based DLL, versus a .NET DLL. Win32 DLLs were typically created with legacy

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Technical Tips Windows 

GetVersion API and Windows 10

April 13, 2015January 24, 2019 GetVersion, Manifest, Windows, Windows 10

This document addresses two problems that can be resolved by updating the Application Manifest file for programs that are distributed

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Technical Tips Windows 

Windows SDK Downloads

April 10, 2015January 24, 2019 SDK, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1

Developers using older versions of Visual Studio, may need to download SDKs to author applications compatible with more recent versions

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Technical Tips Windows 

Firefox Downgrade and Reinstallation

March 1, 2015January 24, 2019 Firefox, Windows, Windows 7

About once a year, I go through the steps of completely uninstalling Firefox, deleting associated folders, and reinstalling the browser.

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Technical Tips Windows 

GetVersion API and Windows 8.1

February 8, 2015January 24, 2019 GetVersion, Manifest, Windows 8, Windows 8.1

This document addresses two problems that can be resolved by updating the Application Manifest file for programs that are distributed

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Technical Tips 

Windows 10 Preview on Windows 7/VM Workstation

January 7, 2015September 21, 2015 preview, Windows 10, Windows 7

To test the technical preview of Windows 10, I followed the instructions at Petri Windows 10 how-to to safely install

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Technical Tips 

IE9+ – Adjusting Toolbar Button Size

December 17, 2014 CommandBar, IE, Internet Explorer, Registry, Toolbar

One of the items that annoyed me in Internet Explorer 9 / Windows 7, is that the toolbar (CommandBar) is

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Technical Tips 

CHM Challenges with Windows 7

December 16, 2014September 21, 2015 ActiveX, CHM, exe, help, hh, hhctrl, htmlhelp, ocx, VB6, Windows 7

Microsoft has undergone several phases of security updates on Windows 7, that make it impossible to open a custom .chm

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Technical Tips 

Installing VB6 and VS on the same Windows 7 Machine

December 14, 2014September 21, 2015 VB6, Visual Basic, Visual Studio, Windows 7

How to install Visual Basic 6 and Visual Studio on the same Windows 7 computer.

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Technical Tips 

Outlook-friendly sender name in SMTP headers

May 30, 2014April 6, 2018 Email, JCL, Outlook, smtp

When receiving SMTP emails from the mainframe with a “from” address claimed to be on the Outlook Server, Outlook may

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Technical Tips 

Retaining HTML formatting in Dynamic Outlook Emails

January 31, 2014April 6, 2018 Email, HTML, Microsoft, Outlook, VB6, Windows

One of the challenges when dynamically modifying emails created from Outlook templates, is retaining the original html formatting of the

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preview of DSNMODIF mainframe assembler code
Legacy / Dinosaurs Technical Tips 

Simple WHOHAS routine

January 23, 2014November 15, 2021 ALC, assembler, Files, MVS

When another user has locked the file that you want to use, a simple way to identify that user is

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Legacy / Dinosaurs Technical Tips 

Unicode in Batch Email Messages

January 21, 2014January 30, 2019 Email;batch;Unicode

Unicode Symbols can be used in Email subject lines, messages, and in some cases, other fields. This article discusses ways

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Legacy / Dinosaurs Technical Tips 

MVS JCL Abend Checks

January 11, 2014February 1, 2019 batch, JCL, Mainframe, MVS

In the case of JCL steps, where checks are made for Abends on predecessor steps, consider the following example. If

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preview of DSNMODIF mainframe assembler code
Legacy / Dinosaurs Technical Tips 

SVC 99 Example Program

December 24, 2013January 30, 2019 ALC, assembler, IBM, Mainframe, MVS

This program will receive username, program name, and job name through register 1 linkage. A SVC 99 dynamic file allocation

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