Sometimes it is convenient to cleanup some disk space by deleting unneeded files like service pack files, the temporary folder an so on. On Windows 7 workstation, you have the Disk Cleanup Utility to do this:
By default, this tool is not enabled on Windows Server 2008 R2. To enable it, there are two possibilities:
(Not recommended) Install the Desktop Experience feature. I don’t recommend this as installing the Desktop Experience feature will not only install Disk Cleanup, but Read more [...]
I come from a Windows and physical keyboard world, so things that are simple in Windows seem very complicated or undoable in iOS. For example, shutting down an App (as simple as clicking the red X in the upper right corner of a window) didn’t seem possible in iOS.
Find below some shortcuts that show how to do the “impossible”:
Go to Standby: Press the Standby button shortly.
Wake up from Standby: Press the Standby button shortly.
Go to Home screen: Press the Home button shortly.
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During the upgrade of SharePoint 2007 from SP2 to SP3, the “SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard” showed the following error message: This happened at Task 8 during the upgrade of the SQL databases. The error message above was not very helpful: “The following contains detailed information about the failure: Failed to upgrade SharePoint Products and Technologies” The upgrade.log in the 12 hive log directory shed some more light on it: [SearchDatabaseSequence] Read more [...]
Starting 28-July-2012, I see the following entries in the KC warning log once a day:
[28/Jul/2012 xx:xx:xx] License update failed: Automatic license update failed during attempt to contact registration server: (11) Unexpected server response
[29/Jul/2012 xx:xx:xx] License update failed: Automatic license update failed during attempt to contact registration server: (11) Client-Server communication error.: couldn't connect to host
[30/Jul/2012 xx:xx:xx] License update failed: Automatic license update Read more [...]
When I updated my Windows 2008 R2 Servers to SP1 via Remote Desktop I lost my RDP session when the machines reboot (which is normal). But after they are up and running again, when I try to connect via Remote Desktop, they cancel my connection.
After some research I found that this happens if you install the Security Hotfix 2667402 before SP1. From the KB, under the “Known Issues” section:
After you install security update 2667402 on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 Read more [...]
Many people prefer Google over Bing. But Internet Explorer just comes with Bing by default. You used to be able to add Google easily by choosing “Find more search providers …” within the Add-on page in Internet Explorer. But due to a recent change from Microsoft, you will now be presented with a page that contains all sorts of providers, but not Google: To solve this issue, just add the following keys to your registry, and Google will be there, including search suggestions and everything: Read more [...]
I am only listing the well-known TCP/IP Ports I have ever used personally. There are of course more ports.
ftp-data 20 File Transfer [Default Data]
ftp 21 File Transfer [Control]
ssh 22 Secure Shell
telnet 23 Telnet
smtp 25 Simple Mail Transfer
domain 53 Domain Name Server (DNS)
bootps 67 Bootstrap Read more [...]
The classic SMTP error code consists of three digits (e.g. 220 mail.domain.tld SMTP ready.). The ESMTP status codes are additions to the classic code and consist of digits devided by dots (5.1.1 User unknown.). Many times you see both types of code combined (e.g. 550 5.1.1 User unknown). Find below a list of the most common codes:
2xx Request ok. Go ahead.
220 Mail service is running (ESMTP ready).
221 2.0.0 Closing connection (Mail received successfully, Goodbye).
250 2.0.0 Message accepted Read more [...]
Have you ever wondered what the default pattern matching string for the proxy URL settings in BES means?
.*://.*(:\d*)?(/.*)*(\?.*)?
Well, this is Java RegEx (Regular Expression) language. Find below some examples that help understand the RegEx:
. matches exactly one character
.* matches any number of characters (including 0), short for .{0,}
.+ matches one or more characters, short for .{1,}
.? matches zero or one character, short for .{0,1}
.{7} Read more [...]
Find below the version and corresponding bundle number of the BES versions. The third number is the Service Pack (SP) number, e.g. 4.1.5 means version 4.1 with SP5.
HF = Hotfix
MR = Maintenance Release
The bundle number is important when you need to find out which version you are running. It is listed in “Add/Remove Programs”.
Version
Bundle
4.0.2
11
4.0.2 HF1
13
4.0.2 HF2
15
4.0.2 HF3
16
4.0.3
9
4.0.3 HF1
11
4.0.3 HF2
14
4.0.3 Read more [...]