During Installation you receive the “Setup Failed due to insufficient permissions.  Please make sure that the current User has local administrator permissions.  Error: The source was not found, but some or all event logs could not be searched. Inaccessible logs: Security.” error. The reason is “UAC - User Account Control in Server 2008” You must turn it off from control panel or run setup.exe as administrator. Read here how to disable User Account Control in Server Read more

  Although IP v6 is the next thing , if you not going to use it it can be simply disabled. To disable IP v6 go to Start >Run type ncpa.clp and hit enter. You will receive your network adapters list. Press right click and properties on each adapter and remove selection from “internet protocol version 6” After you remove it run the following command from command prompt : Remember you must run Command Prompt as administrator %windir%system32REG.EXE ADD HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesTcpip6Parameters Read more

  User Account Control (UAC) is a security component in Windows Vista/7 and 2008 . It allows user to perform tasks with non administrative privileges. Some times the feature need’s to be disabled. To disable it Click Start>Control Panel>User Accounts In the User Accounts  window, remove selection from “Use User Account Control (UAC) to help your computer” Read more

  Since windows Vista and Windows 2008 when performing some system tasks in command prompt , you must run CMD with administrative privileges. To do that navigate to All Programs>Accessories right click on Command Prompt and chose “Run as administrator” You can chose Command Prompt to run always with administrative privileges. To do that navigate to All Programs>Accessories right click on Command Prompt and chose “Properties” Under properties navigate to “shortcut” Read more

Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 or former AdminPack http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7D2F6AD7-656B-4313-A005-4E344E43997D&displaylang=en File name for x64 platform: amd64fre_GRMRSATX_MSU.msu File name for x64 platform:x86fre_GRMRSAT_MSU.msu RSAT for Windows 7 Help: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee449475%28WS.10%29.aspx Also See RSAT for VISTA Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista X86 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9FF6E897-23CE-4A36-B7FC-D52065DE9960&displaylang=en File Read more

  If you’re planning reinstall of your Windows VistaXPServer 200020032008  you’ll need to locate your copy of your product installation key. An easy way is to use Product Key Viewer utility to find forgotten Windows Office or SQL Product Keys. Read more

When trying to access windows 2008 terminal server “Terminal Server Configuration” Snap-in you receive the error “The settings for this terminal server cannot be retrieved” To solve that issue: Open Command prompt Type winmgmt /salvagerepository Performs a consistency check on the WMI repository, and if an inconsistency is detected, rebuilds the repository. The content of the inconsistent repository is merged into the rebuilt repository, if it can be read. The salvage operation always Read more

Recently VmToolkit released free utility that can resize VHD files To download VHD resize utility http://vmtoolkit.com/files/folders/converters/entry87.aspxRelated BlogsRelated Blogs on Tools“100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Librarians on Twitter”…05.05 ...StartupNation Blog » Blog Archive » 3 Do-It-Yourself Marketing ...Related Blogs on Vista VHD4sysops - How to add a Windows 7 VHD to Vista's boot manager menuMount VHD files in Windows 7 and VistaDifferences between Windows 7 and Read more

If you can’t access your shared folders on windows 2008 check the thinks bellow. The issue can happen if you have certain versions of Symantec Endpoint Protection or Antivirus installed To resolve the issue update To resolve this issue, upgrade the Symantec Endpoint Protection software to Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 MR3. you can find more information on the issue Here http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2008091611042748 or http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2008091611042748) Read more

Finding Disabled Users: get-qaduser –disabled Create a new Active Directory user: new-QADUser -name '<User CN>' -parentContainer '<Parent DN>' -UserPassword '<Password>' -FirstName '<User First Name>' -LastName '<User Last Name>' -UserPrincipalName '<User UPN>' Create multiple users in Active Directory: $parentDN = "<ParentDN>" $strPass = "userPaswd" For ($i = 1; $i -le 1000; $i++) { $strUserName = "User" + $i New-QADUser -name $strUserName -parentContainer Read more