Dr Henry Edward Roberts was the inventor of the Altair 8800, a machine that sparked the home computer era.
Bill Gates and Paul G. Allen contacted Dr Roberts after seeing the machine on the front cover of a magazine and offered to write software for it. The program was known as Altair-Basic, the foundation of Microsoft's business……
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Microsoft’s marketing and advertising strategy for Windows 7 has been well planned and executed. This is another smart move for creating a stronger customer base.
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This is a comprehensive list of Windows Administration Tools available for free. There are some great detailed reviews about tools, all of these review are written by Michael Pietroforte. I like his reviews as they are informative and honest.
Above is a precious collection of any Systems Administrator.
For those who have machines with no Hardware Virtualization support – You can use XP Mode in windows 7. Microsoft has launched an update to Windows Virtual PC that enables running XP Mode without Virtualization support.
Read the following KB for more details.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977206
Download the update from from following locations.
After the success of Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft didn’t delay the next browser in line. To stay updated with Features and new capabilities of Internet Explorer 9 visit http://www.ietestdrive.com/
You can also download the Platform preview from the above location.
Search is one of the strong features of windows 7, some on us might find it not too useful because by default Windows 7 only search within the file in an Indexed location. So there is no visible option like XP to search text within a file.
To enable File Content Search option there are two options
Option 1 (Searches will be a little slow)
Option 2
Note: If the location is already being indexed and still its not searching the content of certain file types. Use the following option to make sure its being indexed correctly.
To move DHCP from one server (2003/2008) to another you can use the following steps
Note: You must have local administrator permissions to export/import the data.
Configure the DHCP server service on the server that is running Windows Server 2008
Import the DHCP database
If might receive the following error
“Error while importing option “6.” “This option conflicts with the existing option “” An Internal Error Occurred.”
It is because by default when you install DHCP Server Role, it puts the following entries in Server Options.
006 DNS Server
015 DNS Domain Name
To fix the Error –> Just delete the above two entries from Server options and Run the Import DHCP database command again.
Lets say you are trying to export your contacts to a Tab Delimited Text file or CSV file. The process begins but outlook crashes right away leaving the following event in your event log
Event ID: 1000
Source: Microsoft Office 12
Discription:
Faulting application outlook.exe, version 12.0.6514.5000, stamp 4a89dc70, faulting module oladd.fae, version 12.0.6500.5000, stamp 49a6ed5f, debug? 0, fault address 0x00008c24.
One of the reasons why it might happen is that Microsoft Exchange Management Tools for Exchange 2007 are installed on the computer and Microsoft says it not supported.
To Fix it
Open command prompt and type fixmapi and press enter (there will be no notification, its instant)
Make sure Outlook is closed while you do the above, reopen Outlook and try to Export it should now work fine.
Consider the following scenario:
So if you like a plain desktop, its not necessarily what Microsoft thought was the case. One of the reasons why you might face the issue of delayed logons can be that you have chosen a solid color for your desktop.
see the following link for more details and a hotfix.
When using Aladdin SafeWord 2008 with RADIUS authentication installed on Windows Server 2008, Network Policy Server (NPS) needs to be configured for RADIUS authentication with the router as RADIUS client. For Cisco routers the following authentication settings will work.
Unfortunately the documentation for Aladdin SafeWord 2008 does not provide the following steps, so I decided to put it here for anyone who can benefit from it.
After you have installed SafeWord 2008 successfully, made sure all SafeWord services have the startup type – Automatic and have activated it. Now its time to work on RADIUS Authentication, following steps describe the complete process:
That's it!! NPS authentication with SafeWord 2008 should work fine now.
I don't like the idea of calling a cool shortcut or trick “GodMode”. However as you might have guessed, I like the trick itself. I would call it “AdminMode” because that's what it is.
In Windows 7 you can create a new folder anywhere with the following name
AdminMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
You can change “AdminMode” to whatever you want to name the folder. After the folder creation is complete you will see it listed as following.
When you double click it, you will see a list of commands which are either well hidden or require a few clicks to get to. With the help of AdminMode you get easily access all of these cool features at one place. What's even more great is that you can create a shortcut by right clicking any option and choosing create a shortcut, it will place a shortcut on your desktop.
Enjoy Windows 7 !!!!
When users try to logon to the terminal server they get the following error
Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service
or their sessions just drops during the login process without any errors.
In this case one of the reason could be that your terminal server is handling the memory usage correctly.
check the event log to see if you can find event 1500 and event 1508 for each unsuccessful logon attempt.
if yes then use the following method:
To resolve this problem, modify the registry to increase the PoolUsageMaximum value and the PagedPoolSize value. To do this, follow these steps:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
Office 2007 is packed with useful new features. Quick Access Toolbar is one of them, although the concept is not new but the ease with which you can add the buttons to quick access toolbar is what I would call a new feature. With Quick Access Toolbar you can have a collection of frequently used commands on the top of the ribbon, in the title bar. To add an option to the quick access toolbar just right click on any command on the Ribbon in any Microsoft office program and select the option “Add to Quick Access Toolbar”
Of course we all know that, we also know that this toolbar is actually saved as a file in your profile at the following location
"%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\*.qat
all the files with .qat extension are quick access toolbars for the related application.
When using roaming profile it becomes an issue because as you have noticed that the qat files are in Local Settings folder, which doesn’t get saved with the roaming profile. So to have all users’ Quick Access Toolbar in the roaming profile we need to do two things. First following registry DWORD needs to be created for each user.
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Toolbars
New DWORD –> QuickAccessToolbarRoaming
Value –> 00000001
Above can be achieved in many ways, easiest of them could be to use Group Policy Preferences.
Now we the second step is optional because it is completely for user satisfaction. For the users who have already added their favorite commands to the QAT, once the roaming is activated they will lose their settings. To prevent it you can add the following line to a logon script or just create a new batch file and have it applied as logon script for all users.
move /Y "%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\*.qat" "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Office\"
You don’t want users in your organization to send Out of Office Auto-replies to external recipients and also you don’t want the option to appear in Outlook 2007 like shown below
To disable/hide the option Outside My Organization in Out of Office Assistant in Outlook and in OWA use the following in Exchange Management Shell.
Set-Mailbox <mailboxid> -ExternalOofOptions InternalOnly
This can be changed per mailbox, if you want to be applied to all mailboxes there are many ways of approaching it. You can get mailboxes on a server and pipe it with Set-Mailbox with above settings Or the following will apply it on all mailboxes in an exchange organization.
Get-Mailbox –ResultSize Unlimited | Set-Mailbox -ExternalOofOptions InternalOnly
-ResultSize Unlimited is important otherwise it will change the setting for the first 1000 mailboxes.
For more details on Out of Office Assistant refer to the link below.
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/10/06/429115.aspx
You granted send as permissions to an account from Exchange Management Console in exchange 2007 environment and realize that after an hour later the permissions have disappeared, in fact any other explicit permissions that you granted through Active Directory have gone as well. This will also becomes an issue for organizations using BlackBerry.
Above is by design, read this for more details.
To fix the issue:
Remove the account from any of the following group
If that's not an option then see the work around in the following KB Article.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=907434
This applies to any version of Microsoft Exchange.
