LogMeIn – “Your session has timed out or the host went offline during your connection attempt”
KB ID 0000013 Problem You get the “Your session has timed out or the host went offline during your connection attempt” error when trying to connect to a logmein session. Solution On the target (remote) PC / Server Firstly make sure that LogMeIn on the target machine is not in the middle of updating itself, Then, 1. Start > Run > CMD {enter} 2. Net stop logmein {enter} 3. Net start logmein {enter} Related...
Event ID 7023
KB ID 0000353 Problem Event ID 7023 Source: Service Control Manager Description: The Internet Authentication Service service terminated with the following error: Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. In my case the server (SBS2003) had recently been patched and updated. It was one of...
Nero Install Error: ‘The Installation process cannot be resumed…’
KB ID 0000294 Problem Seen while installing Nero Burning ROM, at various points along the install it will fail with the following error, Error: The Installation process cannot be resumed. A rollback of the failed component will be performed. Some applications have been installed successfully and can be used, Do you want these applications to be uninstalled? Solution 1. Click “Yes” to uninstall. 2. Download and run the...
Event ID 63
KB ID 0000363 Problem Activation context generation failed for “C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesAdobe AIRVersions1.0Adobe AIR.dll”.Error in manifest or policy file “C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesAdobe AIRVersions1.0Adobe AIR.dll” on line 3. The value “MAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION.BUILD_NUMBER_MAJOR.BUILD_NUMBER_MINOR” of attribute “version” in element “assemblyIdentity”...
Dropbox – Windows, Linux, Apple and Dropbox Portable (USB) Installation
KB ID 0000409 Problem You would like to sync your files/folders between more than one machine? Dropbox, is a service that lets you keep files in “The Cloud” and synchronise them across multiple machines and platforms. It’s one of those things that once you start to use it you wonder what you did before you had it. Simply put it’s like having a USB drive that you don’t need to carry around with you, and...
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:...
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...
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...
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 >...