• IT Systems Engineering

    Hyper-V 2012 Access Denied

    January 3, 2013 /

    While trying to connect from a Windows 8 Enterprise client machine to my Windows Server Hyper-V 2012 server via the Hyper-V Manager, I kept getting this error message:“Access denied. Unable to establish communication between Client and Server”. I found a way to fix this. Here is how: From the command prompt of the  client open a command prompt and type DCOMCNFG Go to: “Component Services > Computers > My Computer”. Open Properties for “My Computer” and select the COM Security tab. In “Access Permissions” area click the “Edit Limits” button. Select the “Anonymous Logon”-group and make sure the “Remote Access” is set to Allowed. Now your client will connect successfully…

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    Generating a CSR and Installing a SSL Certificate in Weblogic or Tomcat

    December 14, 2012 /

    This is the only set of instructions on the web which actually worked for me. I think the key was to use this root cert – valicert_class2_root.crt and not use the one which GoDaddy included in the download zip file – gd_bundle.crt Note that these instructions worked fine for Weblogic 8.1 Generating a CSR and Installing an SSL Certificate in Tomcat 4.x/5.x/6.x | Go Daddy Help | Go Daddy Support

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    Reset default File Type Associations in Windows

    December 3, 2012 /

    Here is a life saver. Someone at work changed the .lnk files by mistake in her workstation. She was playing around with Cygwin. Somehow all the shortcuts in the start menu were messed up. This rendered her Windows 7 workstation unusable. We downloaded the .reg file to reset LNK files associations from this page and it worked fine (after a reboot): Default File Type Associations – Restore – Windows 7 Forums

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