When you’ve created a script and you want to ‘run’ it for example every 5minutes on your webserver you can create an cronjob. But when the cronjob should launch your script, nothing happens and when you run it manually on the server it does work. There is a simple solution for this. Cron can only […]
Read More »When in Windows Backup 2008 you want to add an 2nd HDD target to your existing back-up schedule you get the error message: “The filename, directoryname or volume label syntax is incorrect” The solution is: Attach your 1st harddisk. You can only add an extra harddisk to your existing back-up schedule when your 1ste harddisk […]
Read More »To setup a VPN connection on OSx do the following: 1. Click on the ‘apple’ icon and select ‘systempreferences’ and click on ‘network’. 2. Click on the ‘+’ and choose VPN from the list ‘interface’ 3. Choose the preffered VPN type (usually PPTP) 4. Enter the information 5. Click on ‘Authentication settings’ and enter the […]
Read More »When a users has an corrupt Windows profile or you just want to give the user a new profile, it’s not as easy as it was in Windows 2003, there you just go to the users direcotry and change the name of the user folder to for example username_old. When you do the same in […]
Read More »When you press ‘options’ in Outlook Web Acces (owa) you get: Server Error 404 – File or directory not found. The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. To resolve this issue do the following: 1. On the exchange server go to: IIS – Default […]
Read More »When your FreeBSD machines comes with the message ‘enter full pathname of shell or return’ there is a simple solution: Log in with root. # /rescue/sh Then type: # fsck -y The machine will now try to fixx itself.
Read More »There is a simple command to find out the installation date of your windows Pc / server. Open a command prompt (Windows + R, type cmd) Then type: find /i “install date” You will get the output saying: Original Install Date: dd-mm-yyyy, 12:34:56
Read More »When you install windows 8 with for example a VLK iso, your installation probally wont activate. Here’s what you need to do: Press Windows + R and type ‘slui 3’ (without ”) A new windows will open, this is where you can type in a new License key.
Read More »If you lost / forgot your MySQL password you can restore it by connecting to the host with SSH. Next you add the following line to you /etc/rc.conf. mysql_args=”–skip-grant-tables –skip-networking” Then restart MySQL # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server restart Connect with MySQL # mysql -u root mysql Then type the below command: UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD(‘new password’) WHERE […]
Read More »When you get Error Code: 500 Internal server Error (12217) on a website hosted behind a ISA server, there is something going wrong with ‘special characters’ This is easy to fix: Open ISA management: # Rightclick the specific webrule and click ‘Configure HTTP’ # Deselect ‘Vericy normalization’ Apply, Apply, test it! It works! 🙂
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