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Posts from ‘May, 2009’

OCR’ing all of the PDF files in a SharePoint Document Library using PowerShell and Solid PDF Tools

A recent review of the PDF Documents in our Document Control Library, revealed that most were “image only” PDF’s. We’ve run our document control system on different versions of SharePoint technologies since SharePoint Portal Server 2001. We are currently running SharePoint 2007. I’m surprised that someone did not previously notice that most of our PDF [...]

Windows 7 and Virtual XP mode – What and Who is it for?

The new Virtual XP Mode in Windows 7 requires a CPU supporting virtualization and a supporting BIOS. The vast majority of XP users do not have a computer with a CPU or BIOS that would support this option. With this in mind, this is not a feature that is going to be used by [...]

Using Powershell to stop and start dependent services with error notification

A few days ago I received a request to restart a set of dependent Hyperion services every Sunday. This had to be done because; “That’s what Oracle support said is the fix to one of our TAR’s”. Although this server has 3.75 GB of RAM and had never used more than 1.2 GB of RAM. [...]

A walkthrough the code to extend the HP Digital Sending Software

Recently, I wrote about extending the HP Digital Sending Software to “close the gap” and email the OCR’ed result. I received a request to release the code, so I’ve decided to do so with a bit a of documentation.

Bad Behavior was blocking Google Analytics Verify

This morning I was setting up a new blog to use Google Analytics. I’ve done this many times before. However, this morning every time that Google would try and verify the site, the verification would fail.

Bad Behavior has blocked 508 access attempts in the last 7 days.