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  • Microsoft IIS 6 – create custom 404 Error Page

    Create a new HTML file with your custom 404 Error message. Open IIS Management Console Expand Web Sites, Right Click on your site > Properties Click on Custom Errors tab, select 404 and click Edit Message type select File Click Browse and select your new html file Save changes

  • Exchange Management Shell crashes exporting mailbox on Windows 7

    Scenario Exchange Server 2007 Windows 7 client with Outlook 2010 and Exchange 2007 management tools installed Trying to export user’s mailbox with Export-Mailbox cmdlet Problem After running Export-Mailbox –Identity user.name -PSTFolderPath c:\archive.pst Exchange Management Shell crashes with error below:

  • Find DELL Service Tag remotelly

    If you need to find out DELL service tag without physical access to a remote Windows computer you can do this using command line tool wmic.exe Open command prompt (CMD) and run:wmic /user:domain.local\administrator /node:192.168.15.1 bios get serialnumberWhere:domain.local\administrator – domain admin user account192.168.15.1– Remote computer IP address. In theory you can use host name as well,…

  • Your credentials did not work – Remote Desktop Client doesn’t use saved passwords

    If you are accessing Remote Desktop (Terminal) server located in another domain you can come across an issue where Remote Desktop client refuses to use saved login credentials, forcing you to re-renter password every single time. Following error is displayed: Your Credentials did not work Your system administrator does not allow the use of saved…

  • Login automatically in Windows 7

    If you are not worried about security you can make Windows 7 login automatically using your chosen account even if the account is password protected. Start > type netplwiz and press Enter User Accounts window will appear Select user you want to use for automatic logon Uncheck “Users must enter a user name and password…

  • Find out Exchange 2007 / 2010 Version, Service Pack and Update Rollup

    Microsoft Exchange Server Version number is often displayed in a numeric format, e.g Version 8.1 (Build 278.2). It may not look very meaningful at first but it’s easy enough to decode these numbers. Find Exchange version You can find out your Exchange 2007 and 2010 version either using following methods:

  • Installing RamDisk in Windows 7 to perform external media speed tests

    Ramdisk RamDisk as a virtual hard drive that uses part of your RAM. To the Operating System and applications it appears as a normal physical hard drive. These drives are very fast, much faster than any mechanical or SSD hard drives. Unfortunately they have very limited use because of two reasons: RAM is much more…

  • Display Hidden / System Files and Folders

    Windows XP by default keeps some important files and folders hidden. This is to protect files from accidental deletion, but if for any reason you want to see such files it only takes a few seconds to change this default behaviour: Open your “My Documents” folder (in fact it can be any folder) Click on…

  • Deploying Sophos Clients via Sophos Control Center fail on Windows 7 machines

    Sophos Control Centre can deploy Sophos antivirus software to your client computers remotely. In my experience installation on Windows XP never caused any issues and machines were ready out of the box. On Windows 7, however, installation was failing with folowing error: 0000002e  The installation did not start.  The computer may have been shut down,…

  • Microsoft Active Directory – Exchange Extension has encountered a problem and needs to close

    Background Windows Server 2003 / 2008 domainWindows Server Active Directory Forest Schema upgraded to Server 2008Member or DC Windows 2003 Servers with Exchange 2003 Management Tools installed Problem Active Directory Users and Computers MMC crashes on Windows Server 2003 machines with Exchange 2003 Management Tools installed. Crash normally occurs after opening a second AD object…

  • Users can’t logon on Terminal Server using mandatory profiles “The filename or extension is too long”

    Background Windows Server 2003 / 2008 domain Windows Terminal Server 2003 Terminal Server set to use a mandatory profiles Problem Occasionally users are not able to logon using on the Terminal Server using their Remote Desktop Clients.Thy get error message similar to this: Windows cannot copy file C:\Documents and Settings\tms-profile\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\C6RWUIVV\filenameto location:C:\Documents and…

  • Run cmd.exe process as System Account in Windows 7

    Download PsExec (this is part of Sysinternals PsTools) Start command prompt (cmd) as Administrator Navigate to location of downloaded and extracted PsExec.exe Run: PsExec.exe -i -s cmd.exe-i – Run the program interactively-s – Run in the System accountcmd.exe – Application to start This will open another command prompt window which will run under Local System account. You…