Facebook Look Back (terrible)

Out and About – Lostwithiel to Golant (and back)

Yeah “Tom”, that’ll teach you!  Tom actually didn’t actually seem bothered about escaping his note-writing owners.

 

Happy Scooby – just warming up after only 6 miles

Out and About – Praa Sands / Hendra

Leaping Hound

Oh Yes!

Lovefilm Instant Silverlight DRM problems - Title Unavailable

To combat the long, dark, cold and wet winter nights I've been giving Lovefilm Instant a try.  Now despite the really poor selection of movies which seem to have been mainly picked by a group of adolescent boys (I mean, Porn Shoot Masacre and The Gore Gore Girls, really?!).  There are still enough decent films and TV shows to keep me interested, that was at least until Silverlight broke.

If you're reading this you're probably suffering from the same problem:

All Lovefilm Instant titles show up as "Title Unavailable"

My setup: SilverLight 5.1 running on Windows 8 Professional.

I tried the obvious things:

• Clearing my browser cache
• Clearing the Application Storage for Lovefilm.com from the Silverlight Configuration Application
• Ensuring (and toggling) the Digital Rights Mangement (DRM) checkbox from the Silverlight config app
• Removing the DRM licence file: %ProgramData%\Microsoft\PlayReady\mspr.hds
• Completely removing Silverlight all together
• Various combinations of the above including reboots.

None of this worked for me.  Lovefilm was still constantly showing everything as "Title Unavailable".

Eventually I came across a fix which worked for me:

• Start Internet Explorer as Administrator (even if IE is understandably not your go to browser).
• Open: http://goo.gl/CXk2O which is a page from Microsoft that detects and upgrades some security components in Windows Media Player (version 12 in my case).

Once I'd done this update Lovefilm started working again no problem in my normal Chrome browser.  Now I just need to hunt out the few good films amongst all the crap!

Hope this helps someone!

No Windows Server Backup Management Tool on Server 2012

Have you installed the Windows Server Backup feature on the newly RTM’d Windows Server 2012 and been left wondering why you can’t find the Windows Server Backup Management Console Snap-In (wbadmin.msc)?

Although seemingly the backup services are correctly installed and the wbadmin console tool works fine, the convenient and user friendly (although not as functional) MMC snap-in doesn’t get installed.

The Solution

It looks like the file was accidentally omitted from the Windows Server Backup feature and added elsewhere.  If you install the Feature Administration Tools > Network Load Balancing Tools then voilà the Windows Server Backup tool gets installed at the same time.

Hope that saves someone a little bit of frustration.