Category: Technology
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Error code: MapiExceptionBusy: Unable to unmount database
Today I had an Exchange 2007 server with some problems. Some users were ok, others weren’t. There were various errors in the eventlog about activesync so I did an IISreset. There were some other errors about the Exchange Transport Service so I restarted that but as more reports came in from the users it became…
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Beware the Instant Adsense plugin – it steals your Adsense revenue!
This was brought to my attention today while looking for a fix to the problem of the Instant Adsense plugin only displaying text adverts. Instant Adsense is a handy plugin which automatically inserts Ads into your posts and pages randomly but it hides a secret bit of code. The author has inserted a section of…
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Trend Antivirus You are not authorized to view this page
When installing Trend Antivirus via the web interface on the deployment server you may get an IIS error 403.1 saying ‘You are not authorized to view this page’ and ‘You have attempted to execute a CGI, ISAPI, or other executable program from a directory that does not allow programs to be executed. The solution to…
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Lightbox and Fancybox plugins not working on WordPress site – solved
I’ve installed the Lightbox plugin on a few site without a problem but when I added it recently to a client’s site it did nothing. No errors appear, but when clicking on an image it just opened that image by itself not in a pop-up lightbox. I uninstalled and reinstalled. Nothing. Tried fancybox instead. Nothing.…
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Whitelisting email addresses in Exchange 2010 anti-spam
If you have to whitelist an email address in Exchange 2010 antispam, either as part of SBS 2011, on an edge transport server, or any server with the edge transport server role installed, there seems to be nowhere to do it. A simple solution is to use a transport rule to set the SCL (spam…
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Sharepoint Central Administration Website Port Number
The default port number for the Sharepoint Central Administration Website is 4721. I struggled to find this bit of information today so I’ve put it here in the hope that it will help someone else (and me when I forget again!)
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Canon scanner won’t scan – unknown error code = 19
This one had me stumped for a while. A Canon LiDE 110 scanner on a Windows 7 64 bit machine; worked fine while logged in as one user but not as another. When trying to scan, to any location or with any output format, it popped up with a message saying “Unknown error. Code =19”.…
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Online Backup
Any backup system only proves its worth when it’s needed. I’ve been using Carbonite for a while now and have needed to restore twice. Both times it’s been simple and quick to find what I need and get it back. First time was organising some photos on our main PC over the network from a…
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How to run 16 bit programs on Windows 7
A friend recently upgraded to Windows 7 64 bit from XP but didn’t want to upgrade his ancient version of Quickbooks (version 3, on 3 floppy disks!). After trying to run it on 7 in various compatibility mode options I established that it was a 16 bit program and Microsoft had removed the required functionality…