I needed to remove the licenses from a SBS 2003 box Its easy when you know how!
Simply renaming the file: %systemroot%system32licstr.cpa
The next time you refresh the licensing snap-in it will throw a 1016 in the event viewer and mount a fresh license store.
You can now have a blank licencing DB
I needed to compress a VHD as it was causing backups to fail. The Hyper-V built-in compress tool gained me 15MB! i was impressed. Even after a defrag, it was no better. So then i
The final script i needed to get all emails addresses out there was for 2003, google helped me.
With help from http://exchangepedia.com/2005/09/how-to-export-all-email-addresses-from-a-domain.html i managed to get the script working.
I came across this problem a few weeks ago.
A server had had a “Snap Shot” taken of it, then deleted. But the machine had never been powered down to allow the aVHD to merge with the VHD. So when the host crashed, i was faced with a Virtual machine that was over 18 months old! View full article »
I came across this problem late last night. I needed to change the recovery model of a SharePoint DB, but came up with this error
After a bit of searching i managed to find out how to fix it.
I needed a way of listing access rights for users on shared mailboxes.
Google helped me out along with a little playing.
So I now have two PowerShell lines. One that lists users with full access to a mailbox, the other shows all users with the send as role.
Well it looks like Our old problem has come back with SP1 for 2008 R2
After spending a while looking, i found the following KB…
Use .pipeMSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEEsqlquery as the server name string.
On Terminal server, with re-directed printers setting the printer more often than not goes to the wrong one.
The simple solution is this VBS Script. Placed in the users Startup folder, it maps the default printer to the one named.
Simply name the local printer
Option Explicit
Dim objPrinter
Set objPrinter = CreateObject(“WScript.Network”)
objPrinter.SetDefaultPrinter “serverprinter name“
Sometimes this needs to be ran twice, but 99% of the time its happy.
On Terminal server, with re-directed printers setting the printer more often than not goes to the wrong one.
The simple solution is this VBS Script. Placed in the users Startup folder, it maps the default printer to the one named.
