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About Charles Jones

Hopefully a headache helper.

NOVEMBER 19TH, 2015

Getting NW.js (node-webkit) v0.12.3 to work with Edge.js

This is something I needed to get functioning for work. Luckily it wasn't so difficult--the hardest part was attempting to figure out why after I compiled Edge.js properly for NW.js v0.12.3 why it wouldn't actually attempt to load the native edge…

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    NW.js, node-webkit, Edge.js, JavaScript

JUNE 6TH, 2015

ServiceStack v3, Angular, IIS Express, Windows Authentication & CORS

I've recently busted my balls trying to get ServiceStack v3/Angular/IIS Express/Windows Authentication all working together in our corporate environment. It was a bit of a nightmare but it appears I finally have it all figured out. Sorry about the…

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    ServiceStack v3, Angular, IIS Express, Windows Authentication, CORS

APRIL 3RD, 2015

PsExec -- Error deriving session key: The system cannot find the file specified

So this one's been driving me insane for a while (especially since I figured it out a while ago and never documented the solution). On some systems I would only be able to get PsExec working half the time...the other half the time I'd receive this…

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    PSExec

APRIL 25TH, 2013

Lync 2010 Error Code: 500 Internal Server Error. The received certificate has expired. (-2146893016)

Our CA certificate recently expired and we were experiencing a smorgasbord of issues after renewing the CA cert itself. One issue we were running into is that our Lync mobile clients stopped connecting, and our external clients were receiving the…

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    Lync Server 2010, Internal Server Error, Certificates

JUNE 12TH, 2012

Hyper-V Server 2008 - Error: The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation

When attempting to attach a VHD (or simply create a new virtual machine for that matter) by utilizing the Hyper-V manager on a remote computer (to manage Hyper-V Server 2008) I was having issues--I was receiving the error: Error: 'The requested…

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    Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows Server 2008

APRIL 16TH, 2012

Exchange 2003--How to force message stuck in 'Messages with an unreachable destination' to retry

I was in the middle of a migration from Exchange 2003 to 2010 and was troubleshooting public folder replication when I noticed my replication emails to the new public folder database were stuck in the unreachable messages queue. The solution is to…

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    Microsoft Exchange, Mailboxes, SMTP service

JULY 11TH, 2011

Exchange 2010 HTML Mailbox Size Report

Not the prettiest thing in the world but gets the job done by printing each user's mailbox size & total items into a HTML table: May need to modify the mailbox database name.

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    Microsoft Exchange, Powershell, Mailboxes, Reporting

FEBRUARY 10TH, 2011

Windows Vista Update Error 0x80072EFD

Could not update Vista SP1 due to 0x80072EFD error, so I started out by manually updating to SP2. No success. This was driving me absolutely insane until I actually read the C:\windows\windowsupdate.log file. First, try resetting the HTTP proxy…

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    Windows Vista, Windows update

FEBRUARY 1ST, 2011

Android Corporate Exchange Setup - Username or Password Incorrect

DI spent a lot of time ensuring ActiveSync was working properly for a client on Exchange 2010--they have a lot of iPhones and I wanted to be sure everything top-notch. When attempting to activate a Motorola Droid 2 with the Exchange server, I kept…

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    Microsoft Exchange, Android

JANUARY 31ST, 2011

Exchange 2010 - Can't Download OAB

During a migration from Exchange 2007->Exchange 2010, I could not figure out why my OAB would not download after deleting & re-creating it. Originally, we were having an issue where Outlook 2003 clients would throw "Task 'Microsoft Exchange Server…

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    Microsoft Exchange, Migration, Offline Address Book
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