A quick way to solve issues with SSTP issues when attempting to connect VPN to server 2008 and receiving error 619...

Run command prompt as administrator.

netsh http delete ssl 0.0.0.0:443

I recently worked on a Windows XP computer that came in with Webcam problems. The Logitech webcam previously worked but stopped, and all attempts to uninstall and reinstall the software was fruitless. Windows Device Manager would show the webcam with a yellow exclamation mark to indicate that it was not properly installed. The Logitech software itself would say that it could not detect a webcam attached.

This fix resolved the issue on Windows Vista 32bit with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro

1) Search for INFCACHE.1 file within the C:\Windows\inf folder
2) Re-set permissions on INFCACHE.1 to allow yourself full permissions on the file
3) Delete INFCACHE.1 file
4) Reboot
5) Open Adobe Acrobat
6) Go to Help menu > click Repair Acrobat Installation
7) Reboot if necessary

Adobe PDF should appear as an available printer.

We inherited a poorly configured Small Business Server 2003 that had under 1GB free space on it's operating system disk. As this box was obviously the domain controller we needed to find a quick solution to freeing up some space. Having already exhausted all other avenues for freeing up space we had decided that we didn't have a huge requirement at this point for the SBS monitoring. I found an excellent article which allowed me to fully remove the monitoring services which are installed by default as part of SBS.

If you have ever had a need to convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk (e.g. a broken mirror that you're unable to rebuild for one reason or another) there is a way to do this without destroying the data on the drive. This has been invaluable to me recently when we had an inexplicable problem with a RAID controller and needed quick access to specific files from one of the surviving disks from a RAID 1 array. If you convert the disk using Windows the data will be lost.

I have recently found issues with a couple of Access database shortcuts which don't appear to do anything when you double click on them. In this particular instance it's Access 97 running on Windows Server 2003. After a bit of investigation it appeared that the issue is with file association.

Today we hit a problem that we'd never seen before. Clients were connecting up a VPN to the server in the office and all appeared to connect up - username and password authenticated and client connects. But the users could not access any of the shares. Upon closer inspection and an ipconfig, it was clear that the VPN server was not assigning correct IPs to the clients. The clients instead had 169.254.X.X APIPA addresses and therefore could not talk to the network.

So here's a quick fix that seems to work:

One of the features that Qdos provide when hosting a Drupal site with us is that we will perform security updates on your behalf. This alongside out stringent backup policy means all bases are covered in looking after your content. If you are not lucky enough to be hosting with us you can follow the same steps we do to keep things nice and secure.

Drush is a command line shell and Unix scripting interface for Drupal.  Once Drush is installed you can run the following code to update a single module. Please backup your database first!