
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…

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…

Optimising TFS Builds
Recently I have been optimising TFS builds in the hope to reduce the time it takes to get and compile our solutions. It seems to have been very successful, reducing times from 2 hours to about 30 minuets. So I thought I would…