Migrate your Facebook friends to Google+
KB ID 0000483 Problem I like Google+ it’s clean and free of junk. There are no annoying applications, and unlike Facebook (which gets thousands of pieces of Malware a day posted to it), It’s gaining new users at an alarming rate. However migrating your friends is not a simple task, most posts on the web involve creating a Yahoo mail account and using that to drag the people across, this method is much easier and works a...
Sage 200 – The remote server returned an error: (502) Bad Gateway.
KB ID 0000606 Problem A client showed me this today, I don’t support their Sage, but I was on site and the people who do support their Sage (I wont name and shame one of our competitors), had told them it was their DNS server that was causing the error. Logon Error Loon failed due to unexpected error. Please check if the Sage200Configuration database is configured and running. (Message was: The remote server returned an error:...
Malwarebytes – Manually Update Database/Definitions
KB ID 0000629 Problem I was called to a 2003 Server yesterday, that was riddled with malware, whatever was on there was generating a lot of network traffic, so the first thing I did was disconnect it from the network. That’s fine, but if I wanted to use my usual ‘weapon of choice’ Malwarebytes, how was I going to get the latest database installed? Solution WARNING: There is a note on the Malwarebytes website that...
GFI MailArchiver
Deploying GFI MailArchiver with Exchange 2010, Using the Outlook Connector, Importing and Exporting Data. KB ID 0000666 Problem I’ve been involved with Exchange for a long time, either being directly responsible for it, or supporting others that do. And like all systems it would run a lot smoother if you kept users away from it! But unfortunately you can’t, so your system is probably full of users “Deleted...
EditPlus – Enable ‘Word Wrap’ Permanently
KB ID 0000675 Problem I work with text files a a lot, and while Notepad is great, sometimes I want to look at line numbers or do some spell checking, so I prefer EditPlus. The biggest problem with that is, by default word wrap is disabled. You can simply go to Document > Word-wrap, but it only affects the open document. I want word wrap enabled globally! Solution 1. Whilst in EditPlus > Tools > Preference > File >...