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Thursday, June 11th, 2009We have encountered several issues all caused by the same problem : When on a sever, if you try to browse to a page on that server, you get a 401.1 error after being challenged several times. Every time this was caused by denial of a loopback request. To test to see if this is [...]
there are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009I was writing an application recently, and hit this. The solution was to turn my Windows firewall back on. It was set to disabled and when I set it back to automatic, the error went away. _______________________________________PLEASE HELP BY BOOKMARKING OUR SITE…
Windows 7 New Features
Friday, May 29th, 2009Thought I would discuss windows 7 a bit since we’ve been running it here on a laptop for about a month now, and also word on the street seems to be that many companies will skip over vista and will upgrade production from Windows XP Pro to Windows 7. The first thing we noticed is [...]
Liberum Helpdesk v1.0 functional copy
Thursday, May 28th, 2009I have been working on version 1.0 of the liberum helpdesk project and have made significant changes to it. The copy I have is fully functional and works with SQL as the backend. I am also including several scripts I recommend running that generate nag messages. The latest copy can be found here: http://www.bhcblog.com/liberum1dot0.zip If [...]
HOWTO: Where is WinMSD in Windows 7
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Windows 7 carries over the tool from windows Vista. This tool has been renamed to msinfo32.exe. If you goto start –> msinfo32.exe This should be the tool you’re looking for. _______________________________________PLEASE HELP BY BOOKMARKING OUR SITE…
HOWTO: Show Desktop icon in Windows 7
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Where is the “Show Desktop” icon in windows 7? It took a while for me to find it. There are two ways to access this feature although both the icon and the “quick launch” toolbar are both gone. The first way, is on the far right hand side of the task bar. There’s a [...]
Dont buy a Dell Desktop!!!
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Just wanted to give our best practices for hardware. This is not necessarily the only solution, but it is definitely what has worked well for us in the past. If you’re are at all technical, dont EVER EVER buy a Dell desktop. If you are an end user who is not technical then you’re probably [...]
Microsoft to end support for Windows Rights Management Services V1.0
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Microsoft will be dropping support for all RMS (Rights Management Services) v1.0 products on March 23rd, 2009. This does not include RMS with V1.0 with SP2 or RMS v2.0 which will still be supported. On top of dropping support, Microsoft will also be preventing activations or reactiviations of both the client or server. So if [...]
Fix for “The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation” error.
Monday, March 9th, 2009Several times I have encountered the error: “The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation” The solution to this is to fix the local security policy. Open control Panel and go to Administrative Tools. In Administrative tools open Local Security Policy. In Local Security Policy right click Software Restriction Policies and click “New [...]
What is Rights Management Services?
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Rights Management Services is a technology product sold by microsoft that allows users to protect their documents with a set of digital access rights. The original product was created for use with Windows Server 2003 with API’s for Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Vista. In version 2.0 of RMS also known as ADRMS, RMS is [...]
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