Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Getting Powershell to work with a proxy 'update-help' cmdlet

$webclient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$creds = Get-Credential
$webclient.Proxy.Credentials = $creds
update-help

PowerShell 3 update-help (proxy issues?)



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Thursday, March 06, 2014

Deployment Rule Sets in upcoming Java Updates

The Deployment Rule Set feature enables an enterprise to establish a whitelist of known applications. Applications on the whitelist can be run without most security prompts, however, the following prompts are not suppressed:
  • HTTPS security warnings
  • Authentication dialogs that require the user to provide credentials to connect
  • Security warnings from unsigned Java Web Start applications that want to perform such actions as creating a shortcut or an association

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20141376/options-for-using-an-unsigned-3rd-party-applet-in-java-1-7-0-51-and-later

https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/introducing_deployment_rule_sets
https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/upcoming_exception_site_list_in
https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/new_security_requirements_for_rias

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Mounting ISO directly in Server 2012 and Windows 8.1

Mounting ISO's directly in the OS is a nifty little feature

You can also do this in powershell 4.0
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848706.aspx

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