Exporting Scheduled Task List to txt

This one works in Xp and also 2003 Server..

From the command prompt type:

schtasks > tasks.txt

The network is not present or is not started

If this happens to one of your XP clients (may also work on 2k and Vista)

1) Browse to your adapater

2) Uninstall File and Print sharing for Microsoft Networks

3) Click OK etc...

4) Browse to the adapter again, install File and Print Sharing

Everything should now be working again! Obviously if this happens a lot, then there is a bit of an issue here, however corrupt file and print sharing does seem to occur every once in a while.

The report server cannot open a connection to the report server database. A connection to the database is required for all requests and processing.

In Reporting Services 2005 for some reason, you sometimes get this error:

The report server cannot open a connection to the report server database. A connection to the database is required for all requests and processing. (rsReportServerDatabaseUnavailable) Get Online HelpSQL Server does not exist or access denied.

Along with a reference to not having named pipes installed.

To fix it, just run the following command:

rsconfig -c -sMyServerName -dReportServer -awindows -uDomain\Account -pMyPassword

Repairing SQL Reporting Services 2000

Occasionally SQL Server Reporting Services 2000 seems to mess up and give you install errors, or permission errors. Listed below are 2 very good fixes which seem to fix the majority of issues:

1) run this command: RSActivate -c -r “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\ReportServer\RSReportServer.config”

2) try this knowledgebase article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887787

enjoy...

Internet SQL Reporting Server 2000

This is far too complex and poorly documented for my liking!

Microsoft recomend that you add this tag to the Reportserver Virtual Dir rswebapplication.config file:

www.domainName.com/reportServer

HOWEVER This is much easier

Delete the info in the section of rswebapplication.config

/ReportServer

and ensure that the ReportServer virtual directory in IIS is pointing to:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\Reporting Services\ReportManager"

how good is that!

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