Speccy

Full Hardware spec of your machine.. no more guessing what's under the bonnet!!

Speccy

Drive Image

Image your HDD.. free and Windows based!

DriveImage

CCP Codec Pack

http://www.cccp-project.net/download.php?type=cccp

Useful Pack and includes support for MKV files

CRM 3 Cannot add a user and general troubleshouting

Here are some CRM 3 basics when troubleshooting the following:

1. CRM not running
2. Cannot add a new user
3. Certain Pages are not displaying properly
   

CRM 3 needs to have a certain user permission for the app pool user, otherwise the app will really struggle. Set the app pool identity to be either your specially created crmadmin account or a specific web user. For that user you need to ensure the following permissions:

• write access to the windows\temp directory
• write access to the .net temporary internet directory
• member of the privusers group from the crm ou

For troubleshooting strange errors, change the web.config for the crm app and make sure that you set the attirbute :



These points should make troubleshooting a LOT easier...good luck!

net shares and login credentials

On Windows 2000, I frequently have issues mapping drives, telling me about security conflicts or that the drive is already mapped even though it isn't any more. To solve this problem, you need to run the following from the command prompt:

net use * /d

List all DTS Packages in a query

Run this SQL against the msdb database:

SELECT DISTINCT name FROM sysdtspackages

Exporting Scheduled Task List to txt

This one works in Xp and also 2003 Server..

From the command prompt type:

schtasks > tasks.txt