Posted by paris on May 8, 2012 in
Fixes
The HP Laserjet 2011 randomly starts crashing the print spooler in Windows XP. This is a problem with the driver and PDF’s that needs fixing using the following :
Delete the printer and remove it from the registry, in highlighted location.

Then reinstall printer using Laserjet 6 drivers.
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Posted by paris on May 4, 2012 in
Random
After trying to renew an existing SSL Certificate with GoDaddy, I received the following email :
“Dear Secure Certificate Customer,
Recently you requested a digital certificate for: [ remote.**DOMAIN REMOVED** .co.uk ]
We have anti-phishing filters in place to safe-guard our customers and digital certificate-relying parties. Our filters have selected your certificate for review by the Policy Action Committee.
To proceed, we will need 2 things.
1.) You will need to send proof of right documentation for the company that is applying for this certificate. Acceptable forms of proof of right documentation are listed below.
- A copy of business license
- State, County or City Sales Tax certificate
- “Doing Business As” documentation
- Fictitious Name documentation
- Articles of Incorporation
2.) For SSL certificates, you will also need to provide a formal letter of the intended use of your site. Please make sure to include your name and signature on the document.
Please have the letter faxed to: 480.393.5009
Please let us know if we can help you in any other way.
If you encounter any problems or have any questions, our Customer Support department is ready to help, around-the-clock, seven days a week.
Customer Support:
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: 480.505.8852
Fax: 480.393.5009
For further information, log in to your account at https://certs.godaddy.com.”
Turns out GoDaddy has a filter with specific Keywords in the domain name which triggers this. The word in this case was Medical in the domain. The company was a UK Sole Trader so it did not have any of these documents.
To get this renewal from GoDaddy approved we had to email back a Scanned Letter with the intent of use with the following information , for anyone else needing to renew the domain :
We a S0le Trader based in xxxxx, United Kingdom practicing under the name “xxxxxxxxxx”. In the United Kingdom Sole Traders are not required to register with the government so we have no formal documentation regarding licensing or registration to do business.
Here is the link to prove this : http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1073789606&type=RESOURCES
Our registered address is
xxxxx
xxxxx
xxxxx
And Telephone is : +44xxxxx xxxxx
Our intent for the SSL certificate for the domain in question : remote.xxxxx.co.uk is to use it to host our Small Business Server 2011 for Remote Web Workplace used achieved by this link
http://remote.xxxxx.co.uk/remote
After GoDaddy Recieve this , you might need to give them a call , retell the customer services advisor the situation about how companies can operate in the UK without any of these , and they will go through and manually renew the certificate
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Posted by paris on May 2, 2012 in
Code
As per title , the wordpress plugin Per Page Sidebars does not work when you enable a widget for 2 pages which have same names. I was building a site which had duplicate children page names for multiple parents.
I modified the plugin to register the widgets from PSS-Name-of-Page to PSS-Name-of-Parent-Name-of-Page
This enabled me to have multiple widgets for pages by the same name , and also an easy way to organise the widgets in the backend. Code modify in the per-page-sidebars.php file
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Posted by paris on Apr 23, 2012 in
Fixes
When Exclaimer’s Mail Disclaimers Signature tool query’s active directory , it will sometimes cache the information for up to 2 hours. In a working environment, a User OU change or change to information such as a job title needs to be implemented faster that this.
To manually force an AD Refresh Restart the following Services in order :
- - Exclaimer Mail Disclaimers Configuration Service ( It will also ask to restart 2 others if you accept and restart these as well )
- - Microsoft Exchange Transport Service
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Posted by paris on Apr 23, 2012 in
Random
When logging into a terminal server it brings up the
“Your User Profile was not loaded correctly”
You have been logged on with a temporary profile
This could be caused by the following
1) If you are logging in using an active directory account, make sure the profile Tab in the Active Directory Settings under Users and Computers the Profile Path is set correctly
2) If the account is corrupted , log the user off and try and remove their account
i) By right clicking on My Computer , Advanced System Settings, Advanced, then User Profiles removing via here
ii) If the user is not displayed above ,
Delete the User’s Folder from C:\Users\*Username* ( Backup any data before )
Remove the Users Registry enteries from : HKLM\Software\WindowNT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
Then try logging in again
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Posted by paris on Apr 1, 2012 in
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You have a wireless system in place however you would like to separate a guest wireless network using your existing infrastructure and separate internet connection
Equipment :
- Router for Guest Internet E.g. Draytek 2820
- Layer 2 Managed Switch for the VLANing
- Netgear Wireless Controller E.G. Netgear WMS5316
- Access Points to Work with the Wireless Controller
These can be changed , but for example , lets say the following has been done:
- Draytek Plugs Into Port 5 on the Layer 2 Managed Switch
- Wireless Controller Plugs into Port 23 on the Managed Switch
- Access Points Plug into 6 – 8 on the Managed Switch
Configuration
- Create 2 VLANS on the Switch and Wireless Controller, Create 2 SSIDS and assign a VLAN ID to them e.g. VLAN 1 is the main company network and VLAN 2 is the Guest Network
- On the Managed Switch UNTAG ALL Ports for VLAN 1
- Tag Ports 6 – 8 ( Access Points ) and 23 ( Wireless Controller ) on VLAN 2 ( As these will need to access both VLAN for both wireless networks )
- Untag Port 3 VLAN Port for VLAN 2
- Set the PVID of port 3 to VLAN 2 ( Force VLAN 2 ONLY )
- Settings on the draytek can be left as default as long as it’s got a working internet connection and DHCP enabled
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Posted by paris on Mar 28, 2012 in
Fixes
Custom Sage Reports e.g. ‘My SOP Reports’ by default are not stored in the location of all the other Sage Data in the Accounts Folder. You can change this setup however it does seem to effect performance accessing these over a network instead of locally. When setting up another local installation for sage ( accessing the company shared data over the network ), the following folder will store all your local report and these need copying from the computer where the reports where created after installation of sage is complete on the device :
C:\ProgramData\Sage\Accounts\2012\Company.000\Reports\
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Posted by paris on Mar 19, 2012 in
Wordpress
Here is the code you need to display the Parent Category of the Current Category you are viewing in WP E Commerce
<?php
$term = get_term_by( ‘slug’, get_query_var( ‘term’ ), get_query_var( ‘taxonomy’ ) );
$parent = get_term($term->parent, get_query_var(‘taxonomy’) );
echo $parent->name;
?>
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Posted by paris on Feb 29, 2012 in
Code
Go into /wpsc-theme/functions/wpsc-transaction_results_functions.php
Comment out the following
wp_mail( $email, __( ‘Order Pending: Payment Required’, ‘wpsc’ ), $message );
wp_mail( $email, __( ‘Purchase Receipt’, ‘wpsc’ ), $message );
wp_mail( get_option( ‘purch_log_email’ ), __( ‘Purchase Report’, ‘wpsc’ ), $report );
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Posted by paris on Feb 14, 2012 in
Fixes
The default settings in Exchange 2010/SBS 2011 do not advertise these to the user under OWA. If you do enable services such as POP or IMAP the settings are not updated and you need to update these yourselves.
Enable POP3 or IMAP in Exchange 2010/SBS 2008 / 2011 by performing the following :
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2008/09/19/how-to-configure-sbs-2008-to-host-pop3-imap4.aspx
Check in Outlook all working OK by using the following settings
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/08/31/how-to-configure-outlook-for-pop3-imap-and-smtp-connectivity-in-sbs-2008-2011-standard.asp
Once ok , advertise the settings that work in OWA by
Open Exchange Shell , Run these for replacing with your correct domain and pop / imap settings
Set-POPSettings -ExternalConnectionSettings “mail.contoso.com:995:ssl”
Set-IMAPSettings -ExternalConnectionSettings “mail.contoso.com:143:tls”
For SMTP , it uses is the FQDN value on the chosen receive connector. You can find this in the Exchange console via Configuration>Hub Transport>Receive Connectors, Right clicking and choosing Properties on the chosen receive connector.
Once all your settings have been correctly updated, Run this to find your Hubtransport Identity
Get-ReceiveConnector |FL Identity
Then Run this to publish the settings
Set-ReceiveConnector -Identity “**YOUR IDENTITY FROM ABOVE**” -AdvertiseClientSettings:$true
Open Internet Information Services in Administrative Tools
Right click on the server, Stop and Start
You should see the new settings updated
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