Blog of Shaun McCran - Architecting robust, elegant technical and business solutions - Microsoft

How to change or move your profile files in windows 7

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:39:00 -0000

Whilst being technical support for a family member I found the cause of one of his pc issues to be that he had used all the space on his primary hard drive, but had Gigs of free space on a secondary hard drive. All the space was pretty much used by photos and music within his 'users' profile directory. This article deals with how to move your profile files to another drive other than the default C partition. [More]

Changing the 404 template handler in IIS

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:36:00 -0000

You could use a 404 ColdFusion template to handle missing templates, or the onmissingtemplate Application CFC function. Luckily I have a client with half a dozen sites all on the same server, with nothing else on it, so it makes more sense to do this in Internet Information Services. 404 templates are a handy way of masking any site errors or missing templates. Not only are they a cosmetic fix to nasty display errors but they can also seriously help your server security. [More]

Coldfusion 9 to integrate with Microsoft office, Open Office and SharePoint

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:09:00 -0000

Adobe keeps 'leaking' sneaky bits of information about the next platform release for Coldfusion Server, Version 9. The latest release info is that it will be out of the box compatible with both Microsoft Office, and Open Office. This means that you will be able to read, write and create office documents from a coldfusion application.

Hand in hand with this is the new ability to talk directly to office documents is a new API for interfacing directly into SharePoint server, and update data directly. This is an interesting development for the ColdFusion community, as there really isn't any bespoke .Net functionality left that CF can't handle after this.