How do you restart the terminal services service? In MMC (services.msc), it is greyed out. It would be handy to be able to do it if you don’t want to restart the whole server.
The official word from Microsoft is: “The Terminal Services service is an integrated part of the core OS in Windows, that’s why it can’t be stopped or restarted as most other services (it is grayed out).”
The following procedure does the trick:
Open a command prompt
Type in: tasklist /svc /fi “imagename Read more [...]
Sometimes it is faster to access Control Panel items via command line than clicking and searching in the UI. To use a command, just press <Windows-Key>-R, which will open the Run window. Then just type the command and press <Enter>.
For the .cpl files, the "control" command can even be left out, so that is even less to type.
Control Panel Applet
Command
OS
Accessibility Options
control access.cpl
XP
Action Center
control /name Microsoft.ActionCenter
8, 7
control Read more [...]
When it comes to Blackberry device software (= OS = Operating System) there is some confusion regarding versions. There are 2 version numbers:
Software Release Version (= Bundle Version)
OS Version
The Software Release Version is the one displayed when you are notified that new device software is available.
Find below a table of the Q10/Z10 device software versions I could find:
Software Release
OS Version
10.0.10.85
10.0.10.672
10.0.10.90
10.0.10.690
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10.1.0.238
10.1.0.1483
10.1.0.273
10.1.0.1720
10.1.0.2309
10.1.0.2342
10.1.0.2312
10.1.0.2354
10.1.0.4181
10.1.0.4633
10.1.0.4200
10.1.0.4780
.
10.2.0.415
10.2.0.1767
10.2.0.424
10.2.0.1791
10.2.1.537
10.2.1.1925
10.2.1.2102
10.2.1.2141
10.2.1.2941
10.2.1.3175
10.2.1.2977
10.2.1.3247
10.2.1.3062
10.2.1.3442
.
10.3.1.1779
10.3.1.2576
10.3.1.1784
10.3.1.2582
10.3.2.2474
10.3.2.2639
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If you need to start the services on BES 10.1 manually, do it in the order below:
BES10 - Scheduler
BES10 - BlackBerry Controller
BES10 - BlackBerry MDS Connection Service
BES10 - BlackBerry Dispatcher
BES10 - BlackBerry Secure Connect Service
BES10 - Administration Console
BES10 - BlackBerry Administration Service - Native Code Container
BES10 - BlackBerry Administration Service - Application Server
BES10 - BlackBerry Management Studio
BES10 - BlackBerry Licensing Service
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Find below a list of messages that can appear in the security log of Kerio Connect 8.0 and what they mean:
SMTP Spam attack detected from 85.51.174.157, client closed connection before SMTP greeting
This message only appears if Spam Repellent is switched on. It means that the client (sending mail server) hasn't waited the 25 seconds (or whatever is configured in Spam Repellent) for the SMTP greeting. It closed the connection too early. This is indicative of bot net Spam as normal mail servers would Read more [...]
The modes in the Blackberry Z10 device are different than for previous devices (OS 7.1, e.g. Bold 9900). There are five modes:
On
Screen: On
Notifications: On
Alarm: On
Network: On
How to invoke: Press the standby button or swipe from bottom to top
Standby (or Screen Lock)
Screen: Off
Notifications: On
Alarm: On
Network: On
How to invoke: Press the standby button
Password Lock (only if device password is set)
Screen: Off
Notifications: On
Alarm: On
Network: On
How Read more [...]
When upgrading the Sharepoint Server Farm with Security Patch MS13-024, the upgrade went fine on the first server in the farm, but on the second server, the "Sharepoint Products and Configuration Wizard" was displaying:
Server Farm Product and Patch Status
Security Update for Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation 2010 (KB2687418) 64-Bit Edition (14.0.6134.5001) ==> Missing on <localhost>
Error: Some farm products and patches were not detected on this or other servers. If products or patches Read more [...]
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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