When you try to upgrade to new version of VMware tools , Installation wizard asks you to uninstall older version . If you can’t do it , or uninstall feature failed to complete, you will need to uninstall them manually. You may receive the following errors A previous version of VMware Tools is already installed To remove old VMware tools follow the steps bellow: Open registry editor Navigate to the following key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionuninstall Read more

  While trying to connect to BES Monitoring via web browser you may receive the following error message  The application has encountered a system error. Please report this error to the System Administrator or "Page cannot be found" This is a known issue and can be solved by following the steps bellow. Stop BlackBerry Monitoring related services Change server date to September 1st 2010 Navigate to C:Program FilesResearch In MotionBlackBerry Enterprise ServerMonitoring Read more

  You may see this error when you try to accept recurrence meeting ,which time was been updated. To resolve this issue: On the BES Server, click Start > Run and type regedit. Navigate to the following registry HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice11.0OutlookOptionsCalendar. Right-click the Calendar folder and click New > DWORD Value. Type DisableMeetingRegeneration and press ENTER. Double-click the new key and type 1 in the Value data field of the Edit String screen. Read more

  During migration from Exchange 2003 to 2007 we had the problem with Outlook 2007 client free busy response was slow , about 10 seconds to load . To fix it . Open registry editor on your Desktop(where outlook is installed) Navigate to the following path : HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0OutlookOptionsCalendar Create new DWORD value named UseLegacyFB and set value to 1 Note: 0 or not set will use default outlook settings 1 will use Public Folder based Free/Busy Read more

Windows Vista file sort and file extensions associations may  corrupted or get  broken , some files with a couple of extensions cannot be opened properly. For example, some third party programs or viruses may wrongly set or assign file associations for extensions that don't have a default program such as .exe, inf, .com, .sys, .lnk, folder, directory. You can change default program for specific file extension via folder option in control panel  or by clicking right click on a file >open with Read more

Windows Vista allows users to change and set default program association for most sort of file extension via Control Panel’s “Set Associations” and “Set Default Programs” under “Default Programs” link. However, there is no option  to reset or restore file extension association  back to original settings as in   freshly installed Windows Vista OS. List of programs out there under “Set Default Programs” link, such as Internet Explorer,  Outlook, Calender, Windows Mail, Windows Read more

You can use windows program shortcuts via Run or add the shortcuts to scripts.

Character Map = charmap
DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag
Object Packager = packager
System Monitor = perfmon
Program Manager = progman
Remote Access phone book = rasphone
Registry Editor = regedt32
File siganture verification tool = sigverif
Volume Contro = sndvol32
System Configuration Editor = sysedit
Syskey = syskey
Microsoft Telnet Client = telnet

Disable sound in RDP not working in Windows Terminal Services OK, the same bug was in Windows 2003sp1 terminal server, MS fixed it in SP 2. The problem is that even after you disable sound redirection via GPO you still got beeps on error messages. I found a way to fix it. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate and edit  the following registry subkey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControlTerminal Server On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Read more

Default “delay” for pushing software with "Software Configurations delivery" is set up to 4 hours. You can change this value and speed up the process by editing AppProvisionsPollInterval registry value on BB server Open registry editor by going start>run>regedit Find HKEY_LCOAL_MACHINESOFTWAREResearch In MotionBlackBerry Enterprise ServerBlacikBerry IT Admin Server Add DWORD value “BlackBerry Polling Service” Set decimal number of minutes 90 or 60 Restart BES server services Note: Read more

Reasons to do do the update. If you receive errors Unable to initialize the MAPI using profile BlackBerry Server Management! Please contact your BlackBerry administrator. Unable to initialize the RIMDatabase class Unable to save configuration settings or statistics If you are moving mailboxes across information stores and you don't want to reboot server or restart services. And if you are using multiple domains Procedure The LDAPDomain , LDAPSearch , LDAPport , LDApssl , LDAPALPSearch registry Read more