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Issue Some non ASCII characters get lost when submitting HttpPost (or HttpPut) requests to a remote web service. All text after the problematic character also gets stripped out.There were no issues on the server side as other clients could submit…
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PHP json_encode() fails with error “Invalid UTF-8 sequence in argument”
Issue PHP / MySQL web service fails to return JSON encoded data when it contains some non standard ASCII characters. Text in MySQL looks correctly and database has “utf8_unicode_ci” collation.The issue occurs while running json_encode() function. The web service returns following error: Type : Error ExceptionMessage:…
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Windows Server 2012 – Domain network detected as Public
Issue Windows Server 2012 connected to a local domain network reports network type as a “Public Network“. This causes Windows Firewall to block some network services that are expected to work on a domain network (i.e. Remote Desktop).
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GPO File Association fails with “0x80070005 Access is denied” error
Windows file association can be changed using Group Policy (User configuration > Preferences > Control Panel Settings > Folder Options > New > Open With).
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VMware ESXi – enlarge virtual disk
Increasing size of a virtual disk in VMware ESXi is pretty simple process. Open VMware ESXi vSphere Client Right click on the virtual machine that holds the disk in question and select “Edit Settings“ Select the Hard Disk in question and…
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Hide user account from Windows 8 login screen
To hide any user account from Windows login screen, make following registry changes: Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserListSpecialAccounts and UserList keys are not present by default – you need to create them yourself. Inside UserList key create a new DWORD type entry name: user…
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Opening Windows BSOD crash report minidump files
Windows “Blue Screen of Death” crash report minidump files are normally saved in “C:\Windows\Minidump” folder.Full memory dumps are saved in “C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP” file. Level of crash information logging can be set in System Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery >…
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iPhone visual voicemail play button greyed out
Issue Cannot listen to some of the iPhone visual voicemail messages as the “Play” button is greyed out.
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HP Officejet 7500A – Call to Driver Package Uninstall returned error 5
Issue Something went wrong when a user was installing HP Officejet 7500A multi-functional A3 printer software from HP website. The printer doesn’t appear in Windows 10 Settings > Printers & Scanners. In the old Control Panel > Devices and Printers it…
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Use PowerShell to find out if user password expired
Here is a quick way to find out if the user’s password expired and some other useful password-related information (when was the password last set, whether the password is set to never expire):
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Receive email notification when WAN link on SonicWALL firewall goes down
SonicWALL Failover and Load Balancing features work pretty well. Actually so well, that you may end up with one of your WAN links being down without realising it for days! To prevent this, you can setup an email alert to notify you…
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Configure MS Exchange Web Access to redirect from HTTP to HTTPS
Open IIS (Internet Information Services) Manager Console Select Default Web Site and double click on HTTP Redirect Check “Redirect requests to this destination” box and enter your OWA https address where you want to redirect to.i.e. https://webmail.company.com/owa Select “Only redirect…