As a general rule, I don't do much web surfing on a server, but sometimes you have applications that use features which are blocked. Most times you can just add them to the list of safe sites, but sometimes, that just doesn't work, or maybe you're working remotely, and the server is the only console is the only thing you have access to.

Anyway, disabling Internet Explorer Enhanced Security is pretty easy to do, if you know where it is.

Saturday marks the return of Doctor Who’s current season, starting back up with the episode titled “Let’s Kill Hitler”.

One of my users was trying to change one of the DWORD values in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Config

Unfortunately they were getting the good old “Access Denied” message. When I took a look at it, I realized the only user who had permission to edit the key was a user or account named W32TIME. It seemed pretty straight forward. So I went up one key, and copied the permissions down. Then I went in and added the W32Time account. Well, I tried to at least.

Sorry folks, site has been down for quite awhile with a pesky 500 internal Server error. I finally got around to taking a look at it.

What happened was that I took a gander at the server error log, and noticed I was getting:

“SoftException in Application.cpp:256: File "%directory where the files are%”/index.php" is writeable by group”

I’m at what I hope to be the tail end of a long, and I mean loooong, drawn out Sharepoint Services Upgrade. I’ve been using 2.0 forever, and want to upgrade to 3.0 to support Office 2007, as well as to get on the newer version.

Well, I finally had a successful migration in my test environment! Yay! Now, I’ll just wipe it all out, try it again, just to make sure it wasn’t a fluke.

Here’s where I run into the problem. After uninstalling everything, and then re-installing Sharepoint Team Services 2, I received the error below: