Administration Archives - Shane Bartholomeusz

Administration 18th February 2021

Solved: PDF Printer Missing in Win 10

Problem Windows 10 has a built-in PDF printer which enables you to generate PDF’s without needing to install any additional software – as was required in previous versions of Microsoft Windows. So the other day I tried to use the “Microsoft Print to PDF” printer option however noticed it was missing … WHAT THE! If […]

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Administration 20th April 2020

Fixed: Windows Update – There were some problems installing updates (0x80240fff error)

Problem Have you encountered the dreaded 0x80240fff Windows Update error in Windows 10? In this article I’ll show you how to fix the issue. There were some problems installing updates, but we’ll try again later. If you keep seeing this and want to search the web or contact support for information, this may help: (0x80240fff)

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Administration 6th July 2017

ApplicationHost.config Not Working

Quick Tip IIS stores most of your website configuration in the applicationHost.config file. When performing repetitive tasks it’s often quicker and easier to apply changes directly to the applicationHost.config file rather than via the IIS manager user interface.

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Administration 26th May 2017

IIS Configuration History

In this post I thought I’d shed some light on the IIS Configuration History feature built into IIS7 onwards – it’s a great feature that many developers don’t know about.

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Administration 30th August 2016

Azure App Service – How to Enable SSL

Overview Traditionally when setting up SSL for an IIS website, you could generate a CSR using IIS to provide to your relevant certificate authority. If setting up a website using the Azure App Service, the approach is slightly different. There’s a myriad of ways of can do this, however this is the easiest approach I’ve found.

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Administration 28th July 2016

Azure – Scheduled VM Stop/Start

Overview One of the most common Azure administration tasks is scheduling an auto stop & start of your Azure VM’s to save you a few $$$. Here’s a quick post showing how you can do this. UPDATE: Azure now provides the ability to auto start and shutdown ARM based VM’s. If you are however still using a Classic VM, […]

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Administration 1st July 2016

RDP – Bypass Max Connection Limit

The Scenario Ok so you’ve got a critical Production issue . You try to remotely connect to your Windows server using Remote Desktop and instead you get the following error – Ahhhhhh! The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections What do you do?

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Administration 20th June 2015

Shrink Oracle VirtualBox VM

Dynamic Disks If you use a Dynamic Disk in Oracle VirtualBox then you’ll probably notice that your disk space usage will increase over time however this space never reclaimed when you delete data from your virtual machine.

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Administration 11th March 2015

Register .Net Framework version with IIS web server

Visual Studio Error When trying to open a Visual Studio solution, I encountered the following error. C:\myFilePath\myService.Service.csproj : error : The Web Application Project XXXXXX.Service is configured to use IIS. IIS is not installed on this computer. To access local IIS Web sites, you must install the following IIS components: Internet Information […]

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Administration 28th January 2015

Process Explorer Error: Run Process Explorer from a writeable directory

The Problem I came across the following error while trying to run the Sysinternals Process Explorer program. Unable to extract 64-bit image. Run Process Explorer from a writeable directory. What’s Going On? Process Explorer extracts and executes the appropriate x86 or x64 binary for the platform you’re on, and therefore requires elevated privileges (i.e. “Administrative […]

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