How to uninstall MS Office 2011 for Mac?

Unlike with Office 2008 where you have to use a special Uninstall application, it is possible to uninstall a new MS Office just draging it to Trashcan.

Added later:
looks like it will not remove all stuff installed before: see here for the list of files you have to delete manually.

Windows Server 2003 Error when trying to login via RDP: The RPC server is unavailable.

Got it today (Friday 13, huh!) after scheduled patches installation and restart.
Solution - connect to the box via remote registry and create the following registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server
IgnoreRegUserConfigErrors = Dword:1

Devotion to Duty

Happy Sysadmin's day!

by xkcd.com

How to create a "/dev/null"-like stub e-mail address in MS Exchange

Via Active Directory, create a mail enabled distribution group with no members and assign it donotreply@somewhere.com e-mail address (and add any other e-mail addresses as aliases).

Java-based App error under Windows 7: The program can't start because MSVCR71.dll is missing from your computer.

the file needs to be copied from the jre\bin folder to windows\system.

Windows: Delete a file with dot at the end of file name (c:\test\file.)

There are two methods do delete such files. Unfortunately, Windows can't do that and even chkdsk is not able to resolve the issue.

First method: del "\\?\c:\test\file." - doesn't works for me, still getting a message mentioned "file can't be found" or something like that.

Second: Use Unlocker - works just great!

Exchange 2003 SP2: Resolve error 1023

You can try a very useful piece of software for that - MFCMAPI
Download it: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com/

BES: How to separate company's and personal mailboxes on Blackberry.

By default, all mails for BES mailbox go to Messages folder. If you have an additional mailbox (like gmail or something else), you probably will be confused, because all messages from this additional mailbox go to Messages folder too. To separate it (create another separate folder for BES mailbox), we have to update a database and resend service books to a device.

BBDBUpdate.exe -n localhost\BLACKBERRY -db BESMgmt -input EnableBESOnlyMessageApplication.sql

Create tar.gz on Windows box

I've tried to use GnuWin package, but got an error while packing a file with very long filename, so I have to find something else. Fortunately, I found that free 7Zip can do that without errors.

You need to download a free command line version (see URL in the header).
7za a -r -ttar -so dummy [what to archive] | 7za a -tgzip -si [archivename].tar.gz

How to run x64 code under ESX on Dell OptiPlex 755

If you're getting the "0xc000035a" error when trying to install a x64 guest OS under VMWare ESX(i), you can try to to set Trusted Execution (under "Performance" settings in the BIOS) to OFF.

LINUX: How to edit /etc/fstab in the single user mode

mount -o remount,rw /

Make Windows 7 map your network drives properly

We're use small vbs file to map network drives when user logging on. Windows System Log shows that script works ok under Windows 7, but network drives doesn't mapped properly. Finally I've found that Registry trick below resolve this.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

EnableLinkedConnections = 1 (DWord)

Linux: Set the "x" permissions for folders only (Thanks David W)

find . -type d -print0 | xargs --null chmod 755

IIS Connection Limits (XP Pro)

XP Pro allows 10 connections. This limit is installed by default by the metabase key MaxConnections for W3SVC, and there is no user interface method for modifying the setting. You can change this setting to any number less than 40 and it works, but that is not widely advertised.

Windows Media Player (Vista/Windows 7) stuttering while playing MP3 files

Solution:

Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Sound -> Speakers / Headphones -> Enhancements - Check "Disable all enhancements" and Ok

Application popup: : \SystemRoot\System32\RDPDD.dll failed to load

The problem is with the size of the session image space. The session image space is shared by the display drivers and printer drivers. If the sum of the drivers (rdpdd is an additional display driver) gets too big then there is no room left to load.

If you increase the size of the session image space then you can run remote desktop.

Add the following registry key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management]

"SessionImageSize"=dword:00000020

Get a DELL Service Tag on the remote Linux system

dmidecode -s system-serial-number

WinXP: Restore a lost wallpaper from cache

actually, a cache of the current wallpaper bitmap stored here:

"C:\Documents and Settings\-User Name-\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Wallpaper1.bmp"

Remove an access list from ASA(PIX)

To clear an access list from the running configuration, use the clear configure access list command in global configuration mode.
clear configure access-list [id]

How to remove a pre-login wallpaper from Windows Home Server

Run Regedit and go there:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop
Remove the "Walpaper" key