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Sharepoint 2010 Install – Prerequisites Fail

PB — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:51:02 +0000

I was installing SharePoint 2010 for the first time and under the install menu I ran Install software prerequisites which ran through without an issue.

After completing the prerequisites install I ran Install SharePoint Server and was faced with this lovely error message:

Now you would have thought running the Install software prerequisites would have actually installed all the necessary software, but no.

Here is a list of the other software and there links that you need to download and manually install before being able to continue:

Microsoft Windows Identity Foundation
Microsoft Sync Framework v1.0
Microsoft Office 2010 Filter Packs
ASP.NET and Windows Forms Chart Controls for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

After I install those 4 missing components the install ran through without an issue.

Backing up Putty Config

PB — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:26:48 +0000

Ever wanted to backup your Putty settings, either because you are changing machine or you have spent such a long time configuring the multiple custom options in Putty you don’t want to ever lose all that work. Unfortunately Putty does not have an export option so we have to go back to basics and export out the Putty registry key to save the settings. I will say now that if you are not comfortably with using regedit then I would suggest not taking the risk and leaving it well alone, one wrong change can kill your OS on the next boot.

If you are happy navigating the registry then you can backup putty by:

Launching regedit via the run box:

Or through the search box (by typing regedit)

(It really depends on what version of the Windows operating system you are running.)

Once regedit.exe launches you need to navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER]\Software\SimonTatham

Once you have found the registry key you need to right click on SimonTatham and select export (as in the picture below)

All you need to do is save the .reg file somewhere save.

That’s it your putty settings have been backed up.

Moving Site

PB — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:27:39 +0000

My job role has changed so much over the last 6 months I have managed to move back into the windows environment looking after multiple hyper-v clusters and SAN’s. Because of this I am starting to write articles in scvmm.co.uk or ddccentral.co.uk (Same site)

I am going to keep this site running and will post to it from time to time but I am now going to concentrate on Microsoft System Centre and there DDC toolkit with hyper-V

P.S.

I still personal run multiple debian boxes (without plesk) so I will still be around Linux I have not completely moved over to the dark side.

Happy Days.

PCI Compliance Expect Header Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (8443, plesk)

Why can’t you create a folder named CON in Windows

PB — Wed, 18 May 2011 13:26:15 +0000

In all versions of Windows up to and including Windows 7 you will recieve “The specified device name is invalid.” when you try and create a folder called con. con along with the words listed below are described as reserved words.

In MS-DOS, several special “device files” were available to aid in performing certain tasks, such as clearing the screen or deleting extraneous output from a program. In order to maintain backwards-compatibility, these were also included in every version of windows to date.

A list of reserved words are:

CON
PRN
AUX
NUL
COM1
COM2
COM3
COM4
COM5
COM6
COM7
COM8
COM9
LPT1
LPT2
LPT3
LPT4
LPT5
LPT6
LPT7
LPT8
LPT9

Buying a .ie domain from an Irish domain registrar

PB — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:25:49 +0000

You have to laugh, there are some strict rules on who can purchase a .ie domain. Try and buy an Irish domain (.ie) from register365.com, once you have searched for the domain name that you want to purchase click on “Restriction Information” next to the .ie you get the follow (can you see the mistake):

The 100 Oldest Currently Registered .COM Domain

The 100 Oldest Currently Registered .COM Domain

PB — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:26:44 +0000

In 1985 the first domain name was purchased symbolics.com but what else happened in 1985:

Microsoft introduced its first version of Windows 1.01 to the world.
ATI is founded.
The Nintendo Entertainment System makes its debut.
Commodore introduces the Commodore 128 PC with 8502 processor 128 kB of RAM and ROM cartridge port.
The Amiga aka A1000 is introduced.
Dell releases its first computer, the Turbo PC.
Quantum Computer Services is founded, this company later becomes AOL.
Microsoft and IBM begin collaboration on the next-generation operating system (OS/2).
CAT1 wiring is introduced.
Intel introduces the 80386 in October.
IBM develops NetBEUI.

The is the current list of the 100 oldest regsitered .com domains on the internet:

03/15/1985 – SYMBOLICS.COM
04/24/1985 – BBN.COM
05/24/1985 – THINK.COM
07/11/1985 – MCC.COM
09/30/1985 – DEC.COM
11/07/1985 – NORTHROP.COM
01/09/1986 – XEROX.COM
01/17/1986 – SRI.COM
03/03/1986 – HP.COM
03/05/1986 – BELLCORE.COM
03/19/1986 – IBM.COM
03/19/1986 – SUN.COM
03/25/1986 – INTEL.COM
03/25/1986 – TI.COM
04/25/1986 – ATT.COM
05/08/1986 – GMR.COM
05/08/1986 – TEK.COM
07/10/1986 – FMC.COM
07/10/1986 – UB.COM
08/05/1986 – BELL-ATL.COM
08/05/1986 – GE.COM
08/05/1986 – GREBYN.COM
08/05/1986 – ISC.COM
08/05/1986 – NSC.COM
08/05/1986 – STARGATE.COM
09/02/1986 – BOEING.COM
09/18/1986 – ITCORP.COM
09/29/1986 – SIEMENS.COM
10/18/1986 – PYRAMID.COM
10/27/1986 – ALPHACDC.COM
10/27/1986 – BDM.COM
10/27/1986 – FLUKE.COM
10/27/1986 – INMET.COM
10/27/1986 – KESMAI.COM
10/27/1986 – MENTOR.COM
10/27/1986 – NEC.COM
10/27/1986 – RAY.COM
10/27/1986 – ROSEMOUNT.COM
10/27/1986 – VORTEX.COM
11/05/1986 – ALCOA.COM
11/05/1986 – GTE.COM
11/17/1986 – ADOBE.COM
11/17/1986 – AMD.COM
11/17/1986 – DAS.COM
11/17/1986 – DATA-IO.COM
11/17/1986 – OCTOPUS.COM
11/17/1986 – PORTAL.COM
11/17/1986 – TELTONE.COM
12/11/1986 – 3COM.COM
12/11/1986 – AMDAHL.COM
12/11/1986 – CCUR.COM
12/11/1986 – CI.COM
12/11/1986 – CONVERGENT.COM
12/11/1986 – DG.COM
12/11/1986 – PEREGRINE.COM
12/11/1986 – QUAD.COM
12/11/1986 – SQ.COM
12/11/1986 – TANDY.COM
12/11/1986 – TTI.COM
12/11/1986 – UNISYS.COM
01/19/1987 – CGI.COM
01/19/1987 – CTS.COM
01/19/1987 – SPDCC.COM
02/19/1987 – APPLE.COM
03/04/1987 – NMA.COM
03/04/1987 – PRIME.COM
04/04/1987 – PHILIPS.COM
04/23/1987 – DATACUBE.COM
04/23/1987 – KAI.COM
04/23/1987 – TIC.COM
04/23/1987 – VINE.COM
04/30/1987 – NCR.COM
05/14/1987 – CISCO.COM
05/14/1987 – RDL.COM
05/20/1987 – SLB.COM
05/27/1987 – PARCPLACE.COM
05/27/1987 – UTC.COM
06/26/1987 – IDE.COM
07/09/1987 – TRW.COM
07/13/1987 – UNIPRESS.COM
07/27/1987 – DUPONT.COM
07/27/1987 – LOCKHEED.COM
07/28/1987 – ROSETTA.COM
08/18/1987 – TOAD.COM
08/31/1987 – QUICK.COM
09/03/1987 – ALLIED.COM
09/03/1987 – DSC.COM
09/03/1987 – SCO.COM
09/22/1987 – GENE.COM
09/22/1987 – KCCS.COM
09/22/1987 – SPECTRA.COM
09/22/1987 – WLK.COM
09/30/1987 – MENTAT.COM
10/14/1987 – WYSE.COM
11/02/1987 – CFG.COM
11/09/1987 – MARBLE.COM
11/16/1987 – CAYMAN.COM
11/16/1987 – ENTITY.COM
11/24/1987 – KSR.COM
11/30/1987 – NYNEXST.COM

Buying a .ie domain from an Irish domain registrar

Firefox – plugin-container.exe

PB — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:27:00 +0000

After moving from Fedora 12 back to Windows 7 I have been spending a little time in Process Explorer to see what could be switched off to free up some additional resources.

I noticed plugin-container.exe running, after doing a little digging I found out that it first shipped in Firefox 3.6.4 for Windows and Linux only, running Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime and Microsoft Silverlight in a separate process called plugin-container. The web browser loads these certain plugins in a separate process (plugin-container.exe) to provide you uninterrupted browsing even when certain plugins stops working.

This is all well and good but the memory management with Firefox is bad enough without launching more processes and eating up more resources. If you don’t care about a plugin (Only 4 out the moment) taking out your browser then you can disable the options buy doing the following:

Open Firefox web browser.
Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter key.

A warning will appear. Ignore it and press the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button.
In the Filter field type dom.ipc.plugins.enabled 5 preferences will appear.

Ignore first one in the list (dom.ipc.plugins.enabled), By default the preference dom.ipc.plugins.enabled is already set to false. So, no need to touch it. Toggle (double-click) each of the four remaining preferences to change the value from true to false.
These plugins are specified in a separate dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.filename preference, by default is set to true. We can disable them by changing their value to false.
When you restart Firefox plugin-container.exe will not run.