Copying Windows Registry Keys from One User to Another

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After switching the logged on user on a Windows Service, I found out that the original user had some printers set up that were not present in the new user’s profile. While I could have manually set up the necessary printers on the new user, it seemed that there must be a way to do … Read more

Overriding the USER_TABLES and USER_VIEWS Public Synonyms

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To increase the level of security on one of the applications I support, I had to create a new user (we’ll call this one APPUSERREAD) in our Oracle Database that had read-only access to the previous application user schema (and this one will be APPUSER). One of the challenges at this point was to avoid … Read more

Error when Migrating SOAP Web Services from Adobe ColdFusion 8 to CF 11

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After moving a CF 8 app to CF 11, I ran into a difficulty in trying to set up the Web Service in the CF 11 Administrator. Since I couldn’t get the CF 11 server to accept a new entry in the Web Services list, I had to do a little more troubleshooting using what … Read more