{"id":6471,"date":"2015-02-13T15:44:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T23:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=6471"},"modified":"2015-02-15T18:31:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T02:31:07","slug":"silverlight-frozen-on-microsoft-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=6471","title":{"rendered":"Silverlight Frozen on Microsoft Site!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the strange experience of Silverlight, a piece of &#8230; Microsoft software, completely freeze while on a Microsoft site [Azure Portal]. The message informed me that &#8216;Protection&#8217; mode was there to defend me so I was not allowed to enter, or something similar.\u00a0Gee, thanks!<\/p>\n<p>I love the idea of protection, but shouldn&#8217;t Microsoft know that it&#8217;s own services are safe? In addition, why is Microsoft locking my page up completely? I was not able to click the &#8220;Allow&#8221; button. What a tease! Even &#8220;Don&#8217;t Allow&#8221; was frozen.<\/p>\n<p>I even tried the trick of cascading all pages to see if there was a secret hidden pop up box or page. No go. Or should it (not) know about its own safety? Ok, what do I know? Silverlight is an &#8216;add on&#8217; to Internet Explorer, a Microsoft product and in fact is now firmly intertwined \u00a0with Windows 8.<\/p>\n<p>So, to be more concise:\u00a0I am working on Azure SQL. I try to get into the Azure or SQL Manager to practice some queries on my new database, but I encounter the following, which you may not be able to verify through the ethernet, but I assure it is frozen stiff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/silv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6481\" src=\"http:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/silv-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"silv\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/silv-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/silv.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the only way to &#8216;solve&#8217; the Silverlight screen freeze, is &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>1) End the IE process via hard close within Task Manager<\/p>\n<p>2) Completely disable Internet Explorer Protected\u00a0Mode [restart of IE needed]. Go into IE Options, then Security tab, then remove all 4 checkboxes to Internet, Local Intranet, Trusted, and \u00a0Restricted Sites or zones.<\/p>\n<p>Not much help, but you can try downloading the latest Silverlight version: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/silverlight\/\">Silverlight page.<\/a>\u00a0I already had the latest so I resorted to the 2 steps above.<\/p>\n<p>To me, it is ludicrous that Microsoft Internet Explorer PROTECTED MODE needs to be disabled in order to get a MICROSOFT PRODUCT to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the strange experience of Silverlight, a piece of &#8230; Microsoft software, completely freeze while on a Microsoft site [Azure Portal]. The message informed me that &#8216;Protection&#8217; mode was there to defend me so I was not allowed to enter, or something similar.\u00a0Gee, thanks! I love the idea of protection, but shouldn&#8217;t Microsoft know &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?p=6471\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silverlight Frozen on Microsoft Site!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[371,361],"tags":[441],"class_list":["post-6471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-windows-8","tag-silverlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6521,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions\/6521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}