Archive for the ‘windows’ Category

A client was on a SBS 2008 network and strangely enough Outlook was taking a long time to connect to the Exchange server, one the affected clients we discovered that pinging the server would reply with the RRAS adapter address.  We diagnosed the problem without official Microsoft help but later discovered this article that described the issue.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/292822

A computer that is running Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Microsoft Windows Server 2003 may exhibit connectivity issues if the server is configured in the following manner:

• The Routing and Remote Access service is configured to permit incoming connections.
• The Domain Name System (DNS) or Windows Internet Name Server (WINS) service is installed and configured on the server that is running Routing and Remote Access. Read the rest of this entry »

A client would click on a mailto tag and then Internet Explorer would spawn windows (displaying with the error Action Cancelled ) until the PC would run out of memory for the process.  After doing some research I found an article that discuses the issue and how to solve it.

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/MailtoProtocol.htm

A brief synopsis of the article is seen below.

When you click on a mailto: URL in Internet Explorer, multiple instances of Internet Explorer opens (more than 60 windows) with the error Action Cancelled and the mail client is not invoked. You may also see the following error:

“Could not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed”

Root cause

1.     Mailto handler is not correctly set.

2.     Missing URL Protocol registry value.

3.     Incorrect registry permissions for the mailto key.

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