One of my users got an annoying message when starting MS Paint (mspaint.exe):
Onvoldoende geheugen of bronnen om de bewerking te voltooien. Sluit enkele programma's af en probeer het opnieuw.
Which means:
Insufficient memory to complete operation. Close some programs and try again
Other resources suggested that the file opened… Read more
A colleague of mine has some family issues that require him to be home more often. However, work continues. So he started working at home with a laptop. Nothing special about that. What is special, is that we're running a piece of software ("RR") that has old-style telnet-like terminals, which… Read more
If you can login to the computer over VNC or RDP, you can use wmic to find the service tag:
start > run > cmd
On the command line, enter:
wmic bios get serialnumber
If you cannot login to the computer over… Read more
Save this one line of text as c:\windows\quiet.vbs
CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run """" & WScript.Arguments(0) & """", 0, False
To run a batch file invisibly, start it using the following command:
wscript.exe "C:\windows\quiet.vbs" "C:\path\file.bat"
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Installing Microsoft Office 2010 using the preinstalled "out of the box" function, I got this error:
Error 1913: Setup cannot update file C:\windows\win.ini
Permissions were right. I could rename the file, so that means it was not in use by some other program... but apparently it was Trend Micro… Read more
Disable:
bcdedit /set {default} bootstatuspolicy ignoreallfailures
Re-enable:
bcdedit /set {default} bootstatuspolicy displayallfailures
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On my SBS 2003 server, I wanted to know when a user was created. This info is extracted with ldifde
ldifde <span style="color: #66cc66;">-</span>d OU=SBSUsers,OU=Users,OU=MyBusiness,DC=xxx,DC=yyy <span style="color: #66cc66;">-</span>l whencreated <span style="color: #66cc66;">-</span>r <span style="color: #ff0000;">"(ObjectCategory=user)"</span> <span style="color: #66cc66;">-</span>f usercreationdate.txt
A file usercreationdate.txt is now created with the requested report.
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I recently discovered that one of my most annoying users has found another way to frustrate the WSUS update process: First, she simply didn't shutdown the computer when she went home. Now I've installed a psshutdown script on the SBS Server that forces a shutdown every evening, she found out… Read more
"c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\SQLCMD.EXE" -E -S np:\\.\pipe\MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE\sql\query -Q "BACKUP DATABASE [SUSDB] TO DISK = N'C:\backups\SUSDB.BAK' WITH NOFORMAT, INIT, NAME = N'WSUS Database Backup', SKIP,NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10"
c:\backups must be writable by the user that is running the database. In my case, I believe this is user "NETWORK SERVICE".… Read more
