Firefox 7 –  Restore the Full URL / Address Bar
Nov17

Firefox 7 – Restore the Full URL / Address Bar

KB ID 0000517  Problem Firefox 7 came out today (Download Firefox 7), and the new version has decided to shorten the URL displayed in your address bar, to put it back to its old style you need to change a setting. Solution 1. In the address bar type about:config, and then click “I’ll be carefull, I promise”. 2. Locate the  browser.urlbar.trimURLsentry then double click it to change it from true to false.  ...

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Google Searches Work, But All the Result Links DON’T(BT Broadband)
Nov17

Google Searches Work, But All the Result Links DON’T(BT Broadband)

KB ID 0000740 Problem I was covering the phone for one of the days over the Christmas period, and a client had rang in with this problem, at first I thought it was simply an EDNS problem like this. However some testing proved DNS was working fine? Then I thought it was an Internet Explorer problem, until Chrome and Firefox did the same. I could go to Google and search for what I wanted,but all the links (and any other URL I tried,...

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IIS – ‘This Web site cannot be started. Another Web site may be using the same port’.
Nov17

IIS – ‘This Web site cannot be started. Another Web site may be using the same port’.

KB ID 0000660  Problem After being unable to access my Exchange Management console, it turns out the default website had stopped. When I attempted to start it I was greeted with this error. Solution 1. Nothing was using the usual web ports (80 and 443) which I found out by running the following two commands; netstat -aon | find “:80″</p> <p>netstat -aon | find “:443” Note: If you do have a process...

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Remote Desktop Web Services – No Icons?
Nov17

Remote Desktop Web Services – No Icons?

KB ID 0000703  Problem Seen on Windows Server 2008 R2, running Remote Desktop Services with web access. After successfully connecting to the web portal, you see no icons for your RemoteApp Programs. Solution This is a known problem. 1. Go to one of your domain controllers > Windows Key+R > dsa.msc {enter} > Active Directory Users and Computers should launch. 2. Locate the “Windows Authorization Access Group” >...

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Cannot Access Exchange Management Console
Nov17

Cannot Access Exchange Management Console

KB ID 0000477 Dtd 02/05/13 Problem Since Exchange 2007, its management tasks have been done via PowerShell, (yes even the GUI Management). Which is fine, however it runs all that PowerShell from a virtual directory that lives in the servers’ IIS webserver. When that fails or there is a problem, Exchange runs quite happily, but you can’t run the management tools. There are a number of reasons for this to fail and a number...

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