dsquery * -filter "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(mail=*))" -attr mail displayname -limit 0 > c:\email_addresses.txt

Lets hope that it lives up to the hype and most importantly my order from Apple arrives shortly after the 28th.

Basically windows will boot to the logon screen. Once you select a user no matter who you select it will say Loading Personal Settings and then the screen will just display the wallpaper. No icons. Nothing.

I could press CTRL + ALT + DELETE and load up task manager. So I then loaded up a command prompt from there.

When I then ran explorer.exe an error message came up saying :-

system cannot find the file explorer.exe

Checking the windows folder I could see the explorer.exe file.

To resolve the issue I took the following steps.

- Boot Windows into safe mode
- Login as administrator
- When blank screen press CTRL + ALT + DELETE
- Click on file, run
- regedit.exe
- Navigate to this key
- HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\explorer.exe
- Delete this key

When I tried to delete this key I got an access denied error message. On closer inspection I found that the permissions on the key had been altered so noone had permission to delete it.

In order to delete it I had to do the process below :

- Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\
- Right click on the Image File Execution Options
- Click Permissions
- Click on advanced button
- Click on owner
- Tick the box “replace owner on subcontainers and objects”
- Click Ok
- Click Ok Again
- Repeat process Right click on the Image File Execution Options
- Click Permissions
- Click on advanced button
- Tick the box “replace permission entries on all child objects”
- Click ok
- Click ok

You should now be able to delete the key.

Also delete the key for iexplorer.exe if you have one

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\iexplorer.exe

Now reboot and it should login as normal. You can now cleanse the machine. FUN!!!

I hear him right at the start but then I get a low bandwith message come up and dont hear anymore.

My line is 4mb down and 756KB upload, surely thats enough.

Anyone else heard him? Everyone I have spoken to has never heard him during the game.

Cmon Microsoft sort it out!!!!!! I know its beta but the game is crap without the live host being there. The game just have massive long pauses without.

Still got warranty on it. Selling it for £100. Drop me a mail if you know anyone thats interested.

In case your interested I am selling it to fund my next purchase a popcorn A-110 Mediatank.

You can enable it though by doing the following :-

1) Boot Into Safe Mode
2) Start, Run, Regedit
3) Navigate to the following key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Minimal\

4) Right click on the Minimal folder, left click on new, key.
5) Type in msiserver, hit enter
6) Click on the newly created msiserver folder. On the right hand side you will have (Default) and (Value not set)
7) Double click on (Default) and type in the value Service. Then click ok.

Now close the registry editor and click start, run.

Type in net start "Windows Installer"

You should now be able to go into add / remove programs and install stuff.

An example of this might be someone that has the email address info@company.com you then go to create a mailbox with that alias and you get the following message come up :

This email address aready exists in this organization

In order to find out who has this address you can do the following :-

1) Open up Active Directory Users and Computers.
2) Right Click on the domain.
3) Left Click Find….
4) In the Find drop down box select “Custom Search”
5) Then Click on the Advanced tab.
6) Then in order to find info@company.com you would type in the command below

(proxyAddresses=smtp:info@company.com)

7) Then click Find now.

Your name will be displayed in the results screen.

You can also use wildstars such as info* or i* to display more results.

Please note: Please update your iPhone to the latest software before attempting this. You should be running at least 2.0.

Steps to follow:

1. Tap Settings ->

2. Scroll down to Mail, Contacts, Calendars ->

3. Add Account…

4. You’ll be presented with several options, but you want to pick the one at the top: Microsoft Exchange.

5. Now it’s time to enter in your login credentials and Exchange details. Here’s what it all should look like:

The domain is the value in the 3rd box down at the CTRL + ALT + DELETE screen when you login to a computer at work.

6. Tap Next

7. You will then be presented with the same screen again but with 1 added field. “Server”. This is your outlook web access address minus the https:// bit. So if your OWA address is https://outlook.microsoft.com then you would put in outlook.microsoft.com.

8. Hit Next. Your iPhone will try to verify your Exchange server. If you get a box up about a certificate. “Unable to Verify Certificate” message. Tap Accept.

9. This time your account will be verified and you’ll be prompted to choose what you want to sync. Turn on whichever services you plan on using (don’t worry, you can always change these settings later) and tap Save to finish.

10. That’s all there is to it. Your iPhone is now ready to handle push email sent to your work email address.

WARNING!!!!!!

If you choose to sync contacts and calendars through your work, your phone’s current contacts and calendars will be deleted and synced with work.

Its now on technet and MSDN for download. Also available are the slipstreamed versions.

Not sure how long until they are publicly released

The redolog of xxxxx.xx.vmdk has been detected to be corrupt. The virtual machine needs to be powered on. If the problem still persists, you need to discard the redolog.

I couldn’t power off the VM and it was stuck in an endless loop prompting me to click okay.

Found a good guide on how to kill the VM without having to power cycle the host.

- SSH to the Host that has the VM running on it.

- We need to run a command to find out the VM ID for the VM having the issue.

cat /proc/vmware/vm/*/names

This will return a line for each VM running.

vmid=1251 pid=-1 cfgFile="/vmfs/volumes/48ee2ea5-0d1d15c7-0d1c-001f2955194d/example/example.vmx" uuid="56 4d 07 c7 3f 85 f9 09-35 56 41 8c e9 e2 54 7b" displayName="example"

So if we wanted to kill the VM called example we will need to take note of the ID, which as you can see above is 1251.

We now need to find out the Master World ID number.

less -s /proc/vmware/vm/1251/cpu/status

A table will then appear. If you scroll to the right you should see a value under group. It will be something like vm.1234.

In this example the number will be 1234.

Run this command to kill it.

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmkload_app -k 9 1234

If you got the right number you should see a line come back with

Warning: Apr 22 09:01:35.476: Sending signal '9' to world 1234

Your VM should now be off.

Link : VMware Forum