Category: Microsoft
Unrecognized self-signed SSL certs
Found this on stackoverflow after I had issues with an SSL (self-signed) certificate on a client machine – it still didn’t work even after installing the cert via the browser. The fix, in addition to installing the actual certificate, was to add the Certificate Authority on the client machine. On the web server: Win+R, MMC,…
Windows 7 Media Center: Netflix “Authorization Failure” error
In case you’re having an issue watching Netflix through Windows Media Center because of an “Authorization failure…” error, try the following (it worked for me): 1. Exit Media Center. 2. Open Internet Explorer and click Tools and then Internet Options. 3. Click the Delete button – check all of the check-boxes and then click the…
“Cannot add duplicate collection entry of type…” error in IIS 7/7.5
I came across an “HTTP Error 500.19 – Internal Server Error” error when trying to access a static page on IIS 7 running on Windows 2008 Server. So, here’s what I did that fixed the issue: 1. Checked the event logs first and saw this: 2. Checked out the ISAPI Filters of the “Default Web…
Visual Studio 2010 access denied on “Publish”
I was getting the errors below when publishing to a file system: Connecting to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\webapp… Transformed Web.config using Web.Debug.config into obj\Debug\TransformWebConfig\transformed\Web.config. Copying all files to temporary location below for package/publish: obj\Debug\Package\PackageTmp. Publishing folder /… Unable to add ‘Web.config’ to the Web site. Unable to add file ‘Web.config’. Access is denied. Publishing folder Account… Publishing folder…
PowerShell: Deleting entire lines in a text file based on a partial string match
PS C:\workspace> (gc “fileToParse.txt”) -notmatch "<criteria>" | out-file "resultFile.txt" Note: <Criteria>, for example, “not".
Cut-and-paste not working via RDP
Cut-and-paste wasn’t working from me between my RDP session to an XP box from my Windows 7 box. Apparently, the problem was rdpclip.exe wasn’t running. So, if you come across the same issue, check for that process and turn it on if necessary via Run > type rdpclip.