Hacking Windows Passwords

If you ever lose your password and cannot acces your XP box, then download this tool

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

You can burn it to CD or floppy, just boot your machine to it and you can view and reset all the local machine passwords. It also works on servers too, which can be a bit dangerous as i'm sure you can imagine...

Sharepoint homepage error

After doing some modifications to one of our Sharepoint sites, the homepage stopped working! However at the same time, all other Sharepoint sites were still responding. This caused me a lot of headache and stres... especially after spending hours on a new Sharepoint site.

After spending a Saturday morning looking into the problem, I found this knowledgebase article, which cured the problem + an iisreset..

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=826786

CRM 3 Email Settings

This Registry key hold all the mail server info:

MY Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSCRM

The SMTPServer key is worht checking if you can't send email through CRM 3

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USERENV Errors in SBS2003

OK his is a part one fix of userenv errors in SBS2003 clients. RSOP.msc shows that group policy settings are not getting applied.

The problem seems to be partly due to cached logon credintials on the clients. To fi this do the following:

1) run control userpasswords2
2) Click the Advanced tab and click the Manage Passwords button, and then
remove any entry related to the problem account and domain.


Other articles suggest also forcing keberos to use tcp instead of udp

let me know your thoughts...

SQL Mail without Outlook on SBS if necessary

A tricky one this, but well worth setting up:

first download MAPI Profile Manager from here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/228736

Then configure SQL Mail and also the properties of SQL Server agent to use the MAPI profile.

send a few test emails from enterprise manager and away you go... all good !

USB Drive Formatting

If like me you've been having issues with USB media, then try this tool from HP... it's absolutley great and it's free!!

HP USB Formatting Tool

IE Security Settings Problem

If there are problems with ie security

eg activex won't install regardless of level, run this command:

regsvr32 softpub.dll