EasyPush: Creating Member Groups To Control iPad Experience

This blog covers how to setup and configure Member Groups to control the distribution of content within the EasyPush iPad Application.The first step is to login to the administrative console (back-end);EasyPush: Umbraco Admin InterfaceClick on the "Members" section in the bottom left;EasyPush: Members SectionThe bit we're interested in is the node titled "Member Groups". If you click the triangle you'll see the groups already configured on the server....

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MobileIron: Removing a Deployed Application From iPads

This is a simple quick guide to how to remove an application you are already deploying via MobileIron. This is useful if you need to remove an application urgently but don't want to delete it or if, like us, you are using Active Directory groups to control deploying the application but can't wait until AD replication has caught up to remove the application.Log into MobileIron click on the APPS & CONFIGS tab, then “App Distribution”, select “iOS”...

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Lot Genealogy, Part 3: Debugging Lots and Batches

As you might have noticed I've just updated the LOT_GENEALOGY source code for this project to a new version following the discovery of a bug where the product of a batch is two different item numbers. This is a rare occurrence in our system, which is why it went undetected for so long, but it might not be in yours.Rather than dwell on that I thought I'd talk about exactly what the process was that led to us discovering the fixing the error.The first...

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PL/SQL: Safely Publishing Data For Analysis/ Obfuscating Data

The purpose of this blog post is to publish a way of obfuscating data so that you can publish data which can be analysed to spot trends but which does not include confidential information while at the same time allowing you to track back from the published information to the original data if external analysis raises issues which require investigation.We have used this source code to allow us to provide information to our Internal Audit function which...

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MobileIron: Problems Deploying iPad Applications To Active Directory Groups

Background: We have multiple AD domains but we configure and deploy the iPad from a single domain. Let's call it DM001. In Domain DM001 we don't have any end-users, they are in other domains each specific to the country of their users - for example UK001 for UK users, US001 for US users, etc.Mobile iron is connected to the DM001 domain into which we have created a Group in Active Directory called "MobileIron_SW_Easypush". This group has a scope of...

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Quick Guide: Creating a Document Thumbnail on Windows 7

This is intended to be really simple guide to creating 200x??? pixel thumbnails for an existing document. I'm currently using these small thumbnails as part of the EasyPush application as an alternative to "template" thumbnails (i.e. one for all Word documents). It looks much nicer if everything has it's own thumbnail.The first step is to open the document you wish to create the thumbnail for. I've picked a PDF I just happened to have sitting around...

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BizTalk 2009, Part 1: Simple File Moving Application (My First Application)

So as part of my job I'm picking up some work with BizTalk 2009 server. I have used SSIS and have been told by many people that Biztalk 2009 is the "big brother" to SSIS.This is my first Biztalk application and I'm blogging this while I'm creating it. I've received no training, and saw the Administration Console for the first time about 20 minutes ago. To quote Jeremy Clarkson; "How hard can it be?"To start with I've right-clicked the "Applications"...

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Lot Genealogy (Part 2): Automating Testing of a Genealogy

If you are going to roll out any caching of your lot genealogy data the one clear thing you have to get right is testing. If, like us, you are working in a highly regulated environment it's necessary to ensure that you've got your testing right.To this end I've created a new table called LOT_GENEALOGY_WHEREUSED_TESTS;Lot_Genealogy_WhereUsed_Tests Table DescriptionThe purpose of this new table is to hold copies of the lot genealogy data from Lot_Genealogy_WhereUsed....

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