For quite some time now I’ve been a tad baffled about why the correct homepage settings are not being applied to users through group policy on first time login on recently deployed PCs. Quite often instead of reaching our intranet they are just greeted with the about:blank page. A gpupdate /force fixes the issue quickly however naturally this is not… Read more
Author: James
WordPress – You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/admin.php on this server.
A few days ago a interesting problem cropped up with a WordPress website that I maintain for a 3rd party, the error occurred every time I tried up upload a file to the site using the fantastic WP-DownloadManager plugin and was saying… Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/admin.php on this server. After trying a few possible solutions .htaccess (all… Read more
Moodle Error, new users LDAP and SSO (NTLM)
After recently setting up a Moodle install (hosted on IIS on Server 2008 R2) with SSO (LDAP server based (good old Microsoft AD) with NTLM looking after things) we found that any new users were getting this error message appearing. Fatal error: $CFG->dataroot is not writable, admin has to fix directory permissions! Exiting. The simple solution is to this problem is… Read more
Gaming PC for £350 – take that Cnet!
UPDATE – This article has been replaced by this one (link), with a newer, faster A10 APU! A few days ago an article posted on the so called consumer tech blog Cnet.co.uk (link) seriously annoyed me; they claimed that for a little less than £350 you could build a gaming PC. The things that got me about their article were Use of a… Read more
Files in DFS FQDN paths open with security warning
Having recently setup DFS-R and DFS name spaces we found that our users were reporting that a security warning was popping up every time they opened any file from our DFS shares (example above). The warning in Word 2010 was The file originated from an Internet location and might be unsafe. Click for more details. The silly thing about it… Read more
PXE Boot to WDS with VirtualBox
If you have ever tried to boot a VirtualBox VM into PXE (Microsoft WDS/MDT based) using the default Intel PRO/1000MT Desktop adapter you may have seen the error message FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted. The simple solution to this problem (and to get you booting into WDS) is to install the VirtualBox extension pack which can… Read more
Sophos Enterprise Console – You must be a member of at least one sub-estate to run this console
Recently I have been doing a lot of movements of server roles, one of those was changing our DCs to newer servers that will be pure best practice based (nothing else on them other than AD/DNS/File Storage). One of the old server however had the Sophos Enterprise Console (v4.7 for anyone who is keeping count) on and after removing AD… Read more
Lync Error 31196
After decommissioning an old Domain Controller I started to see Error 31196 crop up in our Lync server error logs, one of the messages I saw said- Collaboration platform has failed to provision the data. Collaboration platform has failed to provision the data because of the following exception: Exception: Microsoft.Rtc.Collaboration.ProvisioningFailureException:Cannot read contacts from Active Directory: Active Directory server “<yourservernamehere>” is… Read more
Custom RemoteFX RDS Farm – Case close up
Well its taken a little while but the light at the end of the RDS Farm tunnel is in sight! After heavily modifying two X-Case RM 206 HS cases we now have our first batch of cookie sheet style servers ready for use. The video above goes around a bit of a tour of the case and the photos below… Read more
Moodle and LDAP authentication – login doesn’t work!
When setting up a new Moodle install with LDAP authentication I was finding that my test users wen’t able to login with the normal Active Directory user name/password (sAMAccountName). After a little playing I found that they could login fine if they used what is known as the container name (cn). After a little digging it turns out this is… Read more