Reset and reconfigure TCP/IP in Windows

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /all
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /renew
netsh int ip set dns name=”Interface Name” source=dhcp
netsh winsock reset
netsh int ip reset c:\reset.txt

Replace a failed motherboard:

This scenario assumes that your existing motherboard has failed and that you cannot start the existing Windows installation on the hard disk.

To replace a failed motherboard with a new motherboard and to then reconfigure Windows to work with the new motherboard, do the following:

Turn off the computer.

Replace the existing motherboard with the new motherboard.

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The following tutorial will teach you “How to fixmbr using Windows Vista bootable disk”.

* Boot up your computer using Microsoft Windows Vista Bootable disk. (Check your BIOS setup)
* When you see the 1st Windows Vista installation screen appear, please configure your ‘language’ preferences.
* When prompted, click ‘Repair your computer’.
* Startup Repair will automatically detect a problem. When prompted, click ‘Repair and restart’, and then restart your computer from the Windows Vista bootable disk. If Startup Repair does not automatically detect a problem, continue to the next step.
* click ‘Repair Your Computer’.
* Click Command Prompt from the System Recovery Options.
* BootRec.exe provides the following command-line options:

* /FixMbr. Re-writes the master boot record (MBR) of the system partition to start Windows Vista. This won’t overwrite the existing partition table.

* /FixBoot. Writes a boot sector onto the system partition to start Windows Vista.

* /ScanOs. Scans all disks for Windows Vista installations and displays them to you. Oddly, this didn’t work for me, even on a test system that was starting just fine.

* /RebuildBcd. Scans all disks for Windows Vista installations and prompts you to pick the ones you want to add to the BCD.

* Type ‘BootRec.exe /fixmbr’ and press Enter.
* Congratulations! You’re done.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/backupcopy-files-that-are-in-use-or-locked-in-windows/

HoboCopy:
If you’ve ever tried to copy a file that is locked by another application, you’ve probably seen an error message similar to “The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file”. So how do you copy it anyway?

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Finally found the solution to fix the “An error occured during a call to Windows Management Instrumentation ID no: 8004100e Exchange System Manager” error. It worked beautifully. I can now fully utilise Message Tracking on my Windows 2000 Exchange server.
I have to give full credit to Luke Edson at http://www.mrtweak.com/exchange-ser…install-script/
In essence, it incompases the solution given by Danielp ealier, but goes a little further. Just run this script:

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Windows system key combinations

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This file is used for the “Unknown” devices in a Windows VirtualBox machine. Its the SATA drivers that is missing.

Run the SBSBackup wiz and make your selections as close as possible to what you want (or not, doesn’t really matter what is selected at this point) then fire up NTBackup. Programs, accesories, backup. Cancel the NTBackup wiz (if
it starts in wiz mode, default), go to the backup page and from the ‘job’ menu ‘load selections’. The SBSBackup wiz creates a selection file, Small Business Backup Script.bks in C:\Program files\Microsoft Windows Small Business Server\backup, it is this file you wish to load. Adjust the
selections in NTBackup and save the file.

How to fix Server Error in ‘yourApp’ Application

We get asked about this so much it deserves to be shown here. This error doesn’t mean a lot except that your site is broken. That’s not much help to you figuring out why its broken.

The error page does actually tell you exactly what you need to do to proceed, but for some reason, people don’t read it or think that they should not follow these directions. I remember the first time I ran into this error, and I didn’t follow the directions, so you aren’t alone if that describes you..
Server Error in ‘yourApp’ Application
Step 1:

* Open the web.config file of your application.
* Find ‘customErrors mode=”RemoteOnly” ‘.

Step 2:

Replace “RemoteOnly” with “Off”.
*** It is very important that you use capital “O” and lower case “ff”, as the web.config file is case sensitive, and if you get that wrong, you will continue to get the same error, even if you managed to fix the original error.
Step 3:

Run your application again, and you should now see a different error with the stack trace. This is the same way you would see the error if it was running on your own computer.

Original article here.

You can make the server execute a script at shutdown time by using the Group Policy Editor, which is an MMC (Microsoft Management Console) snap-in.  I will explain how to use the Group Policy Editor shortly, but first, we need to create the batch file that will shut down the Exchange services.

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