Posted Thursday, 26 July 2007 by Michael Khanin
This is so cool, Microsoft Support finally made more sense for non-public hotfixes.
You now can obtain a hotfix without having to interact with a single soul ( no phone calls etc.. ) Easy and convenient.
You can now simply go to thisURL and download most any fix
https://support.microsoft.com/contactus2/emailcontact.aspx?scid=sw;en;1410&WS=hotfix
You will get a form mail in response, and in it will be a link to the http site you can download the fix from.
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Posted Sunday, 22 July 2007 by Michael Khanin
I’ve a few servers those same times I have to take a log from them. I’m interesting just in the LAST log from each server. Because of the huge numbers of the servers I’ve created a script Logs-from-Servers.bat, which helps me in my task. Additionally, this script takes a screenshot from each server.
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Posted Monday, 09 July 2007 by Michael Khanin
Windows XP and Windows Server 2000 / 2003 have a built-in utility called the System stand-alone Optional Component Manager (sysocmgr.exe) to programmatically add or remove Windows components. Running sysocmgr.exe with no parameters will display the usage. The most basic command line is:
%windir%\system32\sysocmgr.exe /i:%windir%\inf\sysoc.inf
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Posted Sunday, 01 July 2007 by Michael Khanin
If you run Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and page with address:
http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx
keeps displaying, edit your registry
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"RunOnceHasShown"=dword:00000001
"RunOnceComplete"=dword:00000001
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Posted Sunday, 24 June 2007 by Michael Khanin
If you installed Acrobat Reader 8 and on the first start Reader will not allow you to accept or decline license add the following entries into the registry.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\8.0\AdobeViewer]
"EULA"=dword:00000001
"Launched"=dword:00000001
"Registered"=dword:00000002
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Posted Friday, 22 June 2007 by Michael Khanin
Most Windows 2000 / 2003 servers running IIS, have remote registry access disabled, for security reasons. by using psservice I've write a script to determine if the IISADMIN and W3SVC service is running on remote Server:
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Posted Thursday, 21 June 2007 by Michael Khanin
When Windows Vista is connected to high speed broadband Internet connection, there may be some incompatibilities and conflict problem or error such as the following:
- Poor intermittent network performance.
- Slow network loading.
- Unable to open and load some websites or webpages using Internet Explorer or Firefox, where the blue loading bar keeps running for a long time, but the pages fail to load.
- Java applets fail to download and open.
- Cannot receive email or download from POP3 mail server by email clients such as Thunderbird. No mail arrived although users may see the message “receiving 1 of 3 messages”, and eventually the receiving process will time out with the error number 0×800CCC19 timeout.
- Slow email sending or retrieval using Thunderbird and other clients.
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Posted Sunday, 10 June 2007 by Michael Khanin
For a long time for downloading files I use Flashget. Very convenient and simple program. By default, the given program does not allow to download more than 8 files Simultaneous.
This number can be increased by the tweak below:
1. Run Regedit.
2. Navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JetCar\JetCar\General\]
3. Right Click -> Add String Value.
4. Name as MaxSimJobs -> Set the value as what ever number you want.
After a restart you should be able to download with more file splits.
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Posted Wednesday, 06 June 2007 by Michael Khanin
 Many administrators are familiar with an opportunity of cloning Windows OS (Sysprep). I already described process of cloning.
Recently, one my client has put a task, to install one Windows server, to set up all and to prepare system for cloning. Also it was required, that on all servers would be static IP addresses.
Equally, it's a not so complicated, but we have only one small problem. At cloning, on different servers Windows set different a name for network cards, once Local Area Connection, once Local Area Connection 2, sometimes Local Area Connection 5 and so on. As you understand, it makes a certain inconvenience at automation of process. To solve the given problem I’ve created a script, Set-IP.bat.
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Posted Tuesday, 05 June 2007 by Michael Khanin
When you install Adobe Reader 8 on Windows Vista you see the error message,
"The Temp folder is on a drive that is full or is inaccessible. Free up space on the drive or verify that you have write permission on the Temp folder."
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Posted Sunday, 27 May 2007 by Michael Khanin
In Windows NT (XP / 2000 / 2003), how can I add a built-in group such as Interactive to a local group? The Interactive group holds all users who log on to a machine interactively (after pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del).
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Posted Sunday, 27 May 2007 by Michael Khanin
 Windows includes W32Time, the Time Service tool that is required by the Kerberos authentication protocol. The purpose of the Windows Time service is to make sure that all computers that are running Microsoft Windows 2000 or later versions in an organization use a common time.
To guarantee appropriate common time usage, the Windows Time service uses a hierarchical relationship that controls authority, and the Windows Time service does not permit loops. By default, Windows-based computers use the following hierarchy:
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All client desktop computers nominate the authenticating domain controller as their in-bound time partner. |
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All member servers follow the same process that client desktop computers follow. |
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All domain controllers in a domain nominate the primary domain controller (PDC) operations master as their in-bound time partner. |
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All PDC operations masters follow the hierarchy of domains in the selection of their in-bound time partner. |
In this hierarchy, the PDC operations master at the root of the forest becomes authoritative for the organization. We highly recommend that you configure the authoritative time server to gather the time from a hardware source. When you configure the authoritative time server to sync with an Internet time source, there is no authentication. We also recommend that you reduce your time correction settings for your servers and stand-alone clients. These recommendations provide more accuracy and security to your domain.
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Posted Thursday, 24 May 2007 by Michael Khanin
To echo a Tab character in a batch file:
1. Edit your batch file in Notepad or any other text editor.
2. Depress the Tab key in the appropriate places in your echo command line.
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Posted Tuesday, 22 May 2007 by Michael Khanin
 If you have to prevent users from accessing the registry editors,You can use Group Policy. Simply enable the Disable registry editing tools policy setting under your systems'
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System object.
This setting changes the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\
registry subkey's DisableRegistry Tools entry (of type REG_DWORD) to a value of 1, which prevents the registry editors from running. (The setting's default value is 0, which permits use of the editors.)
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Any person, who has the Microsoft MVP status, can get one INLETEX Easy Remote Control (ERC) PRO Version single-user NFR (Not For Resale) licenses of free of charge. This offer will be available from August 1, 2007 till July 31, 2008.
