
“The User Profile Service Failed The Sign-in” Windows Server
One of our lab Exchange servers got into a state where only users that had signed into the server before could sign in. Anyone that hadn’t logged into the server via remote desktop before was receiving the error “The User…

Plesk MySQL Server – Another MySQL daemon already running with the same unix socket
The past couple of mornings I have found my MySQL server has stopped on one of my CentOS servers that runs Plesk. When you browse to Plesk you get the following error…
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ERROR: PleskFatalException: Unable to connect to database: mysql_connect(): Connection refused (auth.php:142)<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span> |
When you try and restart the MySQL…

InstallShield – The product license has expired or has not yet been initialized.
While working on some TFS 2010 Workflow builds I got the following error.. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\InstallShield\2013Limited\InstallShield.targets (108): -7159: The product license has expired or has not yet been initialized. After digging about for a bit, it turns out that the…

Windows Server 2012 – Removed .NET Now Only Have Command Line
Yesterday I had to remove and reinstall .NET on a Windows 2012 server. I needed to do this because .NET had been installed before IIS8, causing IIS to have missing handler mappings, in my case I needed .SVC files to…

The requested URL’s length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.
I haven’t posted in a while just just had an error that I thought others may benefit from knowing the answer to. While executing a PHP command I got the error The requested URL’s length exceeds the capacity limit for…

Windows Phone 8 – Debug REST Service With Fiddler
While trying to fix a REST service issue that I mentioned here. I needed to see what traffic was going between my Windows 8 mobile and the REST service hosted on my development machine. I always use Fiddler to look…

HTTP Error 405.0 – Method Not Allowed – REST Service
I was testing a REST service that another developer had coded and hosting it in IIS7, when ever a POST or PUT call was made. I would get the error HTTP Error 405.0 – Method Not Allowed – The page…

SEO Friendly 301 Redirect Checker
Recently I had an issue with configuring a SEO friendly 301 redirect for a WordPress site. The reason I was trying to 301 a domain was the main domain had a few spelling variations, so I wanted to make sure…

Intermittent “500 – Internal server error” with WordPress on Windows Server running Plesk
Recently I had been receiving an intermittent “500 – Internal server error” while in the admin section of WordPress. This just happened to be brought to my attention when I installed WP Portfolio. After a bit of trial and error…

Schema.org – Not Just For SEO
While at @ModernJago attending a Windows 8 UX Design workshop, @andspo mentioned schemas and how they can be used in Windows 8 applications. He referred to Schema.Org, a website that hosts a collection of open source schemas. The site was created in early June 2011, by…