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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2025</title>
  <link>https://theogray.com/blog/2025/12/christmas-puzzle-2025</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 35th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 25 January 2026.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<p><strong>Three winners will each receive a &pound;50 prize.<br />Everyone who enters will qualify for a prize draw.</strong></p>
<p>So what are you waiting for, give it a go and download the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">Christmas Puzzle</a> now.</p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Christmas</category>
  <category>Puzzle</category>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2024</title>
  <link>https://theogray.com/blog/2024/12/christmas-puzzle-2024</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 34th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 5 February 2025.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<p><strong>Three winners will each receive a &pound;50 prize.<br />Everyone who enters will qualify for a prize draw.</strong></p>
<p>So what are you waiting for, give it a go and download the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">Christmas Puzzle</a> now.</p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 08:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Christmas</category>
  <category>Puzzle</category>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2023  Nivens Memoirs</title>
  <link>https://theogray.com/blog/2023/12/christmas-puzzle-2023-nivens-memoirs</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 33rd annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 28 January 2024.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<p><strong>Three winners will each receive a &pound;50 prize.<br />Everyone who enters will qualify for a prize draw.</strong></p>
<p>So what are you waiting for, give it a go and download the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">Christmas Puzzle</a> now.</p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2023 08:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Christmas</category>
  <category>Puzzle</category>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2022  23 - 15 8 - 1</title>
  <link>https://theogray.com/blog/2022/12/christmas-puzzle-2022-23-15-8-1</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 32nd annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 29 January 2023.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<p><strong>Three winners will each receive a &pound;50 prize.<br />Everyone who enters will qualify for a prize draw.</strong></p>
<p>So what are you waiting for, give it a go and download the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">Christmas Puzzle</a> now.</p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2022 08:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Christmas</category>
  <category>Puzzle</category>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2020 - Thirty Years and Its No Joke</title>
  <link>https://theogray.com/blog/2020/12/christmas-puzzle-2020-thirty-years-its-no-joke</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 30th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 24 January 2021.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<p><strong>Three winners will each receive a &pound;50 prize.<br />Everyone who enters will qualify for a prize draw.</strong></p>
<p>So what are you waiting for, give it a go and download the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">Christmas Puzzle</a> now.</p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2020 08:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Christmas</category>
  <category>Puzzle</category>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2019 - Whodunnit</title>
  <link>https://theogray.com/blog/2019/12/christmas-puzzle-2019-whodunnit</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 29th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 26 January 2020.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<p><strong>Three winners will each receive a &pound;50 prize.<br />Everyone who enters will qualify for a prize draw.</strong></p>
<p>So what are you waiting for, give it a go and download the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">Christmas Puzzle</a> now.</p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Christmas</category>
  <category>Puzzle</category>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2018 - Charles Kenneth &#38; Louisa May Help</title>
  <link>https://theogray.com/blog/2018/12/christmas-puzzle-2018-charles-kenneth-louisa-may-h</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.co.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 28th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 27 January 2019.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<p><strong>Three winners will each receive a &pound;50 prize.<br />Everyone who enters will qualify for a prize draw.</strong></p>
<p>So what are you waiting for, give it a go and download the <a href="https://christmaspuzzle.uk/">Christmas Puzzle</a> now.</p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Christmas</category>
  <category>Puzzle</category>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2017 - Brown and Blue</title>
  <link>https://theogray.com/blog/2017/12/christmas-puzzle-2017-brown-blue</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://christmaspuzzle.co.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="https://eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 27th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 28 January 2018.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<p><strong>Four winners will each receive a &pound;30 prize.<br />Everyone who enters will qualify for a prize draw.</strong></p>
<p>So what are you waiting for, give it a go and download the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.christmaspuzzle.co.uk/">Christmas Puzzle</a>&nbsp;now.</p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Christmas</category>
  <category>Puzzle</category>
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  <title>Solved Autodesk DWG TrueView 2018 on Remote Desktop Services</title>
  <link>https://theogray.com/blog/2017/11/autodesk-dwg-trueview-2018-on-remote-desktop-terminal-services</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p>Luckily this is very similar to <a href="https://theogray.com/blog/2017/01/solved-dwg-trueview-2017-on-remote-desktop-services">Autodesk DWG TrueView 2017 on Remote Desktop Services</a>&nbsp;just with one additional registry value.</p>
<p><strong>Problem</strong>: Running <strong>DWG TrueView 2018</strong> on Windows Server <strong>Remote Desktop Services / Terminal Services</strong> (RDS/TS) <em>without</em> having to change permissions or give users administrative privileges.</p>
<div class="highlight">
<p><strong>Solution for DWG TrueView 2018</strong>: Install once as an Administrator, then create 11 registry entries <em>per user</em> and setup Group Policy to use dwgviewr.exe to open .dwg files.</p>
<p><strong>Tested on</strong>: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2</p>
<p><em>For TrueView 2019 on UPDs, see <a href="#comment3748">Michael's comment below</a>.</em><br /><em>For TrueView 2017, see <a href="https://theogray.com/blog/2017/01/solved-dwg-trueview-2017-on-remote-desktop-services">Autodesk DWG TrueView 2017 on RDS</a>.</em></p>
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<p>The registry entries (all String values) can be copied from the user profile that was used when installing DWG TrueView 2018. The information below is for the English version of Autodesk DWG TrueView 2018; other language versions may vary the "1001:409" section of the key below.</p>
<ul>
<li>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\DWG TrueView                                                       
<ul>
<li>CurVer</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\DWG TrueView\R16                                                          
<ul>
<li>CurVer</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\DWG TrueView\R16\dwgviewr-1001:409                                                            
<ul>
<li>AllUsersFolder</li>
<li>AutodeskShared32Folder</li>
<li>AutodeskSharedFolder</li>
<li>DownloadedProgramFilesFolder</li>
<li><em>GraphicsCacheFolder</em></li>
<li><em>LocalRootFolder</em></li>
<li>PublicFolder</li>
<li><em>RoamableRootFolder</em></li>
<li>SystemFolder</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><span class="empherror">Important</span>: Three of these need tweaking per user (<tt>GraphicsCacheFolder</tt>, <tt>LocalRootFolder</tt>, <tt>RoamableRootFolder</tt>) to point at the appropriate user profile folder.</p>
<p>There is also a set of files installed to <tt>C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk</tt> (or wherever your Public user folder resides) that need to be left in place.</p>
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<p>When each user opens a .dwg file for the first time (or runs DWG TrueView directly) then the Autodesk installer will run and populate all other missing entries automatically (without trying to elevate).</p>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2017 14:58:13 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Windows Server</category>
  <category>Remote Desktop Services</category>
  <category>Terminal Services</category>
  <category>Autodesk</category>
  <category>DWG</category>
  <category>TrueView</category>
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  <title>Solved Autodesk DWG TrueView 2017 on Remote Desktop Services</title>
  <link>https://theogray.com/blog/2017/01/solved-dwg-trueview-2017-on-remote-desktop-services</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p>I've been struggling to find a solution to this for many months but finally have it working.</p>
<p><strong>Problem</strong>: Running <strong>DWG TrueView 2017</strong> on Windows Server <strong>Remote Desktop Services / Terminal Services</strong> (RDS/TS) <em>without</em> having to change permissions or give users administrative privileges.</p>
<div class="highlight">
<p><strong>Solution for DGW TrueView 2017</strong>: Install once as an Administrator, then create 10 registry entries <em>per user</em> and setup Group Policy to use dwgviewr.exe to open .dwg files.</p>
<p><strong>Tested on</strong>: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2</p>
<p><em>For TrueView 2018, see <a href="https://theogray.com/blog/2017/11/solved-autodesk-dwg-trueview-2018-on-remote-deskto">Autodesk DWG TrueView 2018 on RDS</a>.</em></p>
</div>
<hr />
<p>The registry entries (all String values) can be copied from the user profile that was used when installing DWG TrueView 2017. The information below is for the English version of Autodesk DWG TrueView 2017; other language versions may vary the "0001:409" section of the key below.</p>
<ul>
<li>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\DWG TrueView                                             
<ul>
<li>CurVer</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\DWG TrueView\R15\dwgviewr-0001:409                                                  
<ul>
<li>AllUsersFolder</li>
<li>AutodeskShared32Folder</li>
<li>AutodeskSharedFolder</li>
<li>DownloadedProgramFilesFolder</li>
<li><em>GraphicsCacheFolder</em></li>
<li><em>LocalRootFolder</em></li>
<li>PublicFolder</li>
<li><em>RoamableRootFolder</em></li>
<li>SystemFolder</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><span class="empherror">Important</span>: Three of these need tweaking per user (<tt>GraphicsCacheFolder</tt>, <tt>LocalRootFolder</tt>, <tt>RoamableRootFolder</tt>) to point at the appropriate user profile folder.</p>
<hr />
<p>When each user opens a .dwg file for the first time (or runs DWG TrueView directly) then the Autodesk installer will run and populate all other missing entries automatically (without trying to elevate).</p>
<p>I did find that not setting <tt>GraphicsCacheFolder</tt> still allowed DWG TrueView to work but the installer does not recreate this registry value.</p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Windows Server</category>
  <category>Remote Desktop Services</category>
  <category>Terminal Services</category>
  <category>Autodesk</category>
  <category>DWG</category>
  <category>TrueView</category>
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  <title>Christmas Puzzle 2016 - Anybody May Help You Solve This Puzzle</title>
  <link>https://theogray.com/blog/2016/12/christmas-puzzle-2016</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.christmaspuzzle.co.uk/"><img align="right" alt="Christmas Puzzle" border="0" class="inline_right noborder" height="109" hspace="12" src="http://www.eatonbray.com/news/images/christmas-puzzle.gif" width="200" /></a>This year's annual Charity Christmas Puzzle has now been posted, and is available to download.</p>
<p>This, the 26th annual Puzzle that Gordon Gray has set, has a theme designed to help completion and will appeal to people who enjoy doing Crossword puzzles, such as in the Daily Telegraph (though it is not a Crossword puzzle). Puzzlers have plenty of time to find the answers and Puzzles should be returned, with donation, by 29 January 2017.</p>
<p>All the money you donate, except for the prize-money, will go to charity.</p>
<p><strong>Four winners will each receive a &pound;30 prize.<br />Everyone who enters will qualify for a prize draw.</strong></p>
<p>So what are you waiting for, give it a go and download the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.christmaspuzzle.co.uk/">Christmas Puzzle</a>&nbsp;now.</p>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Christmas</category>
  <category>Puzzle</category>
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  <title>Adding a Forward Only user to Exchange Online</title>
  <link>https://theogray.com/blog/2016/03/adding-forward-only-user-to-exchange-online</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<p>This is based on writeups on various forums and here mainly to remind me what is required.</p>
<ol>
<li>Go into Office 365 Administrator mode.  Then go to Admin/Exchange.</li>
<li>Under the Recipients section select Contacts.</li>
<li>Add a Mail Contact for the person using his or her personal e-mail address.</li>
<li>Then back under the Recipients section select Shared.</li>
<li>Create a Shared Mailbox for the user using the "company" e-mail address for that user. This does not use a license.
<ul>
<li><strong>Important</strong>: Use a different Display Name for the shared mailbox and the contact as this is used to create the Alias which must be different.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Edit the Shared Mailbox and select Mailbox Features.</li>
<li>Scroll down to Mail Flow and select View Details.</li>
<li>Enable Mail Forwarding and then select the Contact created above.</li>
</ol>]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <category>Exchange</category>
  <category>Microsoft</category>
  <category>Office 365</category>
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