Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems. Originally a graphical addon for Microsoft DOS, Windows is now the dominant family of operating systems on the desktop. Today there are several branches of Microsoft Windows: Windows, for desktops, notebooks, netbooks and tablets Windows ...
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Restart the PC remotely
I am connecting to my workspace 's PC (window xp) in my home using the company VPN. I can ping it successfully after connecting to the VPN .Is it possible to restart this PC remotely by using some ...
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Dynamic file name for Generic/Text Only printer
I've got an ASCII print job coming from a legacy system that I don't control. Currently it's aimed at a regular printer.
I'd like to be able to catch the job with the Generic/Text Only driver and ...
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Can we block any specific webpage on network without blocking whole website?
I want to block a specific webpage on a site but not whole website.
For Example:
www.example.com/about.html should work fine
www.example.com/feedback.html should work fine
and every other page ...
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Mount ext3 from remote Windows machine (XP/Vista/7) through ssh?
Is it possible to mount external ext3 network drive from Windows through ssh/sftp ?
I would like to avoid samba/cifs.
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Debugging slow SMB packets from a specific desktop client
I'm having some serious problems locating a slowdown, and I hope you could assist me with this.
We have an office network with ~50 clients and a main file server running Windows Server 2008 R2 ...
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Monitor state of “Startup Type” of services
I would like to be able to monitor when the state of "Startup Type" for a particular service is changed from Automatic to Manual. I haven't been able to find an event that is triggered in event ...
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Case-sensitive error in compiler's building using crosstool-ng under Cygwin
When I try to build gcc cross-compiler using crosstool-ng I have the following message:
$ /opt/ng-crosstool/bin/ct-ng build
[INFO ] Performing some trivial sanity checks
[ERROR] Your file system in ...
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Automatically log into SIP phone when user logs into Windows
We run an asterisk-based PBX, with FreePBX front end, configured in 'device and user mode' to support hot desking users. That is, a user arrives and sits at any desk, keys *11 into the phone (Cisco ...
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I can't run apache, all against me, it says “The requested operation has failed”, see log?
Installing the Apache2 service
The Apache2 service is successfully installed.
Starting the Apache2 service
The Apache2 service is running.
ce] Apache/2.0.64 (Win32) configured -- resuming normal ...
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Control the Speed of Windows File Copy over a Network
Is there an effective tool for copying files across Windows network shares that:
Can be scripted
Can rate limit based on a bandwidth parameter (i.e. "2 MBytes/s")
Is a windows tool (i.e. not rsync ...
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Cacls, full permission, local names
I tried to use cacls to give "Everybody" group access to certain folder. And I failed. As I understand the reason is i'm trying to use groupname in english while my windows is localized. Attempt to ...
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Unable to remove IIS 7 completely
I faced some issues in loading COM component through a WebService because the user hadn't permission for C:\Windows\system32\inetsrv\config\schema folder. When I opened the file using Windows ...
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Wildcard certificate with SAN
I am attempting to create a wildcard SSL cert with a Subject Alternative Name (SAN) for use in IIS 7.5 and I'm having some issues. Because I need to include a SAN, I am using the Custom Certificate ...
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Outlook 2010 needs a password every 30 minutes
I have an Exchange Server running Exchange 2010. I have one specific user who we just migrated over to Windows 7 x64 an he is also running Microsoft Outlook 2010 x86. Our exchange mailboxes are tied ...
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Oracle 11g on a hard disk [closed]
Can I install Oracle 11g on a hard drive. Can I use this hard drive in another computer where 11 g is not installed and just play a bit with Oracle?
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Windows 7 on VMware Workstation 8 [closed]
I'd like to know is there any tutorial how to install Windows 7 on VMware Workstation 8. Thanks a lot
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How to find out the .exe running behind a service with cmd.exe?
If I see svchost.exe having the PID 840, how do I get the information which .exe runs behind the service with cmd.exe on Windows Server 2003? If possible without Sysinternals tools.
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SBS server and Windows XP service pack 3 firewall issue
I have an issue with one of my client networks running SBS 2008 and Windows XP service pack 3 on the clients. Some, but not all, of the computers are not giving me the option to disable the windows ...
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How to check which roles are installed on a Windows Server 2003 with cmd.exe?
If I log into a Windows Server 2003 and I want to check with cmd.exe which roles are installed, how to do that?
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Configure SQLServer 2000 Win7
I've got SQL Server 2000 running on Win7. There's no management tools so I wonder how do I configure/interact with the server. Main purpose for me is to enable remote connections. I know how to do ...
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extracting a file from 3000 folders -
I have been searching for a way to resolve this issue but can't find the right way. I have 3000 folders and need to extract a file out of each. It's slightly more complicated than that because of the ...
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Is it possible to create an EBS AMI for windows EC2 instance?
We have a Windows server (EBS backed) running in EC2. We make regular snapshots for data backups. I'd like to create a new EC2 instance from one of these snapshots.
Yes, I realise this is the same as ...
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I had hosted a site in a server, I just want to hide that domain or ip from the user? [closed]
I'm developing a windows application in C# and I also developed a asp.net website and hosted in a server. My motive is to not show my server source or domain address to the user.
Hence I designed a ...
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Set and Force Ownership to SID Everyone
I am trying to set ownership to SID Everyone S-1-1-0 for a mapped network drive. It is mounted in Windows from a linux machine share path using SMB. I can easily do this through the Windows ACL, but ...
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Automatically offline bad nodes in Windows HPC?
Is there any way, in Windows 2008 HPC, to automatically mark nodes offline if jobs are consistently failing on those nodes?
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Can no longer access hidden shares on Domain File Server
Our workstations (Windows 7 machines) connect to users' home folders on the domain's File Server (Windows Server 2008 standard), using a UNC path like \\server\users$\...
This has worked fine for a ...
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Is the size of this system state backup normal
I administer a small network, 2 Windows 2003 servers with around 30 users + Exchange. The system state backup generates a 28 GB file. Is this normal? I think it's too big for just 30 users + 30 ...
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Accessing a share on a Windows 2008 Server from that server
if I'm currently on Server1 (A windows 2008 server), and I try to access
\\server1\share\dir\dir\file
how is that request handled? Does it stay local to the server entirely (no network access)? ...
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Using Win32_FileSpecification WMI instances
I am trying to get a checksum of a remote file using Win32_FileSpecification class via WMI, but am running into a few problems.
It uses CheckID as the key, which looks to be similar to the path with ...
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update client applications across the internet?
I have developer a server/client application that could see 100's of clients installed. Each client might only be accessible over the internet.
When I update my server application it's likely the ...
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Is there a .history file on Windows machines?
Is there an auditable file on a Windows machine that shows the command-line history for either cmd or PowerShell? On UNIX machines I believe there is a hidden file in the home directory called ...
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Where is my AD-Integrated stub zone data being stored?
I have an Active-Directory integrated stub zone that appears to be functioning properly (zone data is populated on every DC). It is stored in the DomainDNSZones partition, but I do not see any dnsNode ...
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Why can't I delete a folder that I have ownership (+ children) AND full control permissions (+ children) on?
I've got some leftover Windows update temporary folders (they have GUID-ish names) on the root of the system drive. I'm trying to clean these up, but am getting the following behavior upon deletion ...
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View Desktop of all currently logged in Users on Windows Server
Were running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise in a small research project at home. We need multiple users running Software in the background. For Monitoring purposes I'd like to have the ability to ...
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Definition of Web application/services in Windows Web Server 2008 R2 [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my software licensing question?
I have a problem to understand whether our services listening on Internet are web services or application services ...
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Unable to add certificate to the Trusted Root Certification Authorities in Windows 7
I am trying to add an apple developer certificate for sending Push notifications to my Trusted Root Certification Authorities section. I get an error like so: "The import failed because the store was ...
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Domain cname not resolving with dnsimple.com
I'm not an expert on DNS matters, but i have configured a few domain before and have a reasonable knowledge of how it's supposed to work.
But this one is over me, I've tried everything to try and ...
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“Map network drive” Apache WebDAV folder without directory listing
I'm trying to create a webdav share on Apache which, when mounted in Windows using 'Map Network Drive', allows users to get and put specific named files, but not list any other files or directories.
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Excluding folders from a roaming profile, client-side
I am using a laptop connected to our company's domain network, and after logging in this morning it told me that I have exceeded my roaming profile space. After looking into the issue I realized that ...
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Good Perfmon Counters for Initial Troubleshooting
I increasingly deal with users who complain there "computer is slow" or that "it takes forever to load" on the laptops we provide (fairly standard build of Windows 7 32-bit with Office 2010 and a few ...
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Sharing printer with laptop in Windows
There is a computer with Windows XP machine and a printer is connected to it. The computer is connected to a router (I don't know if wireless or with cable).
I'd like to share a printer with laptop ...
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Implementing 2-factor authentication for Windows Server RDP
We want to implement 2-factor authentication for all our servers.
For SSH, we use authkeys. What can we use for Windows Server 2008 R2 RDP?
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Windows 2008 + IIS + Backup folder permissions or script to view all folders with X permissions?
I know how to backup IIS 7 configuration, but unaware of a way to backup which folder requires write permissions.
If a server was to go down and I needed to restore, I could restore the config and ...
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Anybody tried to use graphic card as a precision clock on a Windows server?
I am thinking (constantly) how to make my server be synchronised better than it is. I run some cheap app which syncs me with some stratum 2 server on the colo and drift is about 1-2 ms per 10 sec ...
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Tools to automate windows server administration? Puppet?
We'd like to reduce the amount of time required to administer our Windows servers.
Pretty much every server our team has responsibility for runs some variant of Windows but for historical reasons ...
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Wireshark like app for embeded Windows CE
Greetings Im looking for a standalone wireshark like app that I can run on a embedded Windows CE device in order to debug some network issues.
Is anyone aware of such a thing. I know version 5 has ...
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How do I enable FTP on my windows server? [closed]
I'm far from an expert so forgive me if this is a silly question. I have a windows server running and have FileZilla server running. What do I need to do to allow external connections to be made? I ...
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Windows 2008 - Time Sync
What is the threshold in Windows 2008 when the local clock differs from an NTP source and it will not synchronize?
For example, if the local time is off > 2 days, will NTP still sync? Is there a ...
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Windows boot iso file without press any key
I'm trying to make an iso file which will boot without any key-press from the user.
In Windows iso files, when booting from a cd, there is a message "press any key to boot from cd" which will wait for ...
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How to debug the integration of a Windows 7 machine into a Samba 3 domain?
We are running a Samba 3 domain (Samba 3.5.6) with a LDAP backend. Lately, we installed Windows 7 on a virtual machine (called schnellwienix) and joined the computer to the domain, following the hints ...
