Lately I have been getting clients with the following error message when they try and connect to a https site. MS wisdom to security load Internet Explorer. This is one of the major issues I don’t use IE. Any how if you are getting the following message the option to eliminate the warning everytime is below.

Launch Internet Explorer. Click on Tools -> Internet Options.

Go to Security tab. Select Internet zone (default selection).

Click on Custom level… button under “Security level for this zone” section.

Under “Miscellaneous” branch, for Display mixed content parameter, select the radio button of Enabled.

I needed to reduce the complexity of the password policy for a Windows 2008r2. I found the option to be greyed out. This did it immediately.

Found this on the Internet. Thank you Strangenut. Here is the original blog.

The basis of the blog is the following:

1. Go to a command prompt
2. Type ‘secedit /export /cfg c:\local.cfg’ and hit enter
3. Using notepad, edit c:\local.cfg
4. Look for the line “PasswordComplexity = 1″ and change it to “PasswordComplexity = 0″
5. You can also edit “MinimumPasswordLength = 7″ to a lesser value if you like.
6. Save the file
7. At a command prompt type ‘secedit /configure /db %windir%\security\local.sdb /cfg c:\local.cfg /areas SECURITYPOLICY
8. This will apply the new settings and refreshing the gpedit.msc should reflect the new settings
9. Set your new less complex password!

The only thing you need to change is if you have 64-bit version (most will be) then you can’t use the edit command. You will need to open the local.sdb file using notepad.

I have a client that switched from SBS 2003 to SBS 2011. They have a Xerox copier that scans to network using FTP server. I installed FTP Role on the SBS 2011 Server. Went through the wizard in setting up permissions etc. Thought everything was going well except the scanner did not talk to the new server. I tried FTP from a workstation to the new server and it did not work (timeout error). I could FTP fine from the server so I knew it must have been a firewall issue. I checked the firewall and it said it has port 21 allowed both in and out. After much frustration I manually added the rule for port 21 to allow both ways. After that it worked. Why if the rules are already there I had to add them again I don’t know.

Have a client that could not go back to IE8 in Windows 7 after installing IE9. What the client was doing was going into Control Panel and turning off Windows feature IE9 where he should have uninstalled IE 9 by using the following:

To remove IE9, don’t “turn Windows features on/off”, This is what you have to do:

To uninstall Internet Explorer

The following instructions apply to both Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

1. Click the Start button , type Programs and Features in the search box, and then click View installed updates in the left pane.
2. Under Uninstall an update, scroll down to the Microsoft Windows section.
3. Right-click Windows Internet Explorer 9, click Uninstall, and then, when prompted, click Yes.
4. Click one of the following:
• Restart now (to finish the process of uninstalling Internet Explorer 9, and restore the previous version of Internet Explorer).
• Restart later (to wait until you shut down or restart your computer).

A Client was getting this error when opening Google Calendar in IE8. I found this in a forum.

It appears to be a misbehaving Chrome Frame plugin. Uninstall the Google Chrome Frame plugin from the internet options/manage add ons panel. This solved the problem for a user who I provide tech support to.