Posting To Facebook ‘Images Missing’ from ‘Choose a Thumbnail’
KB ID 0000288 Problem When using AddThis or by posting a URL into your facebook status, It wont show the thumbnail you want for your web page. Solution Insert the image URL into the <Head> of the web page code like so, <head> <link rel=”image_src” href=”http://www.petenetlive.com/Images/square_logo.jpg” /> </head> Then when you go to post you will see, Related Articles,...
Tracking Affiliate Advertising Clicks in Google Analytics
KB ID 0000632 Problem Google Analytics is great at telling you what’s coming into your site, but it’s not designed to tell you what’s going out. For the most part that’s OK, but what if you have affiliate adverts, and you want to track if your visitors are clicking on them, or you want to find out which ones are NOT getting clicked on so you can drop them. Solution 1. First you need to delay the result of the...
Can I delete _vti_inf.html and the _vti folders?
KB ID 0000742 Problem I was doing some site tidying this week, usually If I don’t know what something is I leave it alone, but I was on a mission! I had a bunch of files/folders in the root of my website, that, a) I didn’t know what they were doing, and b) wanted to delete. File: _vti_inf Folders: _private, _vti_bin, _vti_cnf, _vti_log, vti_pvt, _vti_txt Solution As it turns out these folders are needed for FrontPage and...
Internet Explorer Puts ‘Borders’ Round Your Images
KB ID 0000823 Problem Chrome is my browser of choice, so I don’t look at my website with IE often. (Yes I know that’s bad practice for a webmaster). So I was surprised when I opened my home page and saw this. IE does this IF your image is a hyperlink. Solution Option 1: Edit your Hyperlink If you have a lot of them this is quite time consuming, but you can add the attribute of border and set it to zero within the IMG section of...
RSS Error – Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF8”, but your server is reporting “US-ASCII”
KB ID 0000889 Problem I don’t validate and check the sites RSS feed as often as I should, but post server migration I got this error; This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations. Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF8”, but your sever is reporting “US-ASCII” Solution As you can see by the section I’ve...
Google Analytics – Redundant Hostnames
(Redirecting non www URL’s to www URL’s) KB ID 0001016 Problem I noticed this a while back, apparently Google Analytics started flagging this for many users on October 14th 2014. But I’ve only just got round to sorting it out. If you are seeing this error its because your site is ‘addressable’ in more than one way, in my case you could get to me via http://petenetlive and http://www.petenetlive.com. I...
VMware Workstation – Can’t get into the BIOS
KB ID 0000509 Problem I recently upgraded to VMware Workstation 8, I was going to have a play with the Windows 8 developer preview, and needed to get my VM to boot from CD. After Hammering F1, F2, F10 and the delete keys. I admitted defeat and looked for the boot into BIOS setting that I’m sure used to be there! A quick Google search said “Simply Press F2” when the virtual machine powers on, but despite nearly...
VMware Workstation – Error – ” Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is disabled”
KB ID 0000540 Problem Seen on VMware Workstation, when attempting to virtualise a product that IS a virtualisation hypervisor (ESX for example). Error: Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is disabled for this ESX VM. You will only be able to run 32-bit nested VMs. At first I (wrongly) assumed that I needed to enable something in the BIOS on my laptop, and searched though every page to enable some virtualization setting that was turned off....
Event ID 9323
KB ID 0000481 Problem Seen when an Exchange server attempts to build the Offline Address book but encounters an error. Source: MSExchangeSA Event ID: 9323 Task Category: (13) Level: Warning Keywords: Classic Description: Entry ‘{Username}’ has invalid or expired e-mail certificates. These certificates will not be included in the offline address list for ‘Global Address List’. Solution 1. Go to a domain...
VMware – This Virtual Machine Appears To Be In Use
KB ID 0000959 Problem I wanted to give a copy of a VM to a colleague, so I removed all the snapshots, and cloned one of my test VM’s. When I went to power on the original this happened; The virtual machine appears to be in use. If this virtual machine is not in use press the “Take Ownership” button to obtain ownership of it. Otherwise press the “Cancel” button to avoid damaging it. Configuration file:...