What I do when I prepare to reinstall my computer or move to a new one

Make a manual copy of my entire profile. See instructions on how here. Export my favorites, feeds and cookies using IE’s Export function. Export all my certificates. Retrieve my product key if reinstalling the same computer or moving license to another computer. Key finders here. Copy folder that are outside of the profile, e.g.. c:Apps.

Fast User Switching with Remote Desktop

A Windows Vista machine has a user called fourthcoffeejoberry logged on. Another user, fourthcoffeehenrikjensen logs on with Remote Desktop. fourthcoffeehenrikjensen receives this message, and presses Yes: The logged on user, fourthcoffeejoberry will see this popup on her desktop and press OK: While fourthcoffeehenrikjensen waits for fourthcoffeejoberry to respond, this message is displayed in his Remote …

Windows Virtual PC: Disable the Internal network DHCP server

The Internal network network in Windows Virtual PC (WVP) has a built in DHCP service that provides the clients connected to it with addresses in the 169.254.0.16 to 169.254.10.254 range. If you need to disable this DHCP service this is how you do it: Shut down or hibernate all your running virtual machines Wait for …

WinRM and TCP ports

WinRM, or Windows Remote Management, is an HTTP based remote management and shell protocol for Windows. The Windows Remote Management Service is responsible for this functionality. If WinRM is not configured for remote access, but the service is started, it listens for local requests on TCP port 47001. If you create listener it will still …

Upgrading to a higher edition (SKU) of Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 using DISM

The Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tool is a new tool included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. DISM enumerates, installs, uninstalls, configures, and updates features in Windows images, in either WIM or VHD format. DISM can also work against online (running) instances. Of special interest for this post are the editions …

Exchange 2010 not receiving mail

My Inbox had been awfully quiet for a few days. Time to investigate: Putty with manual SMTP session: 220 <servername> Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:53:01 +0100 ehlo server1.nowhere.com 500 5.3.3 Unrecognized command ehlo server1.nowhere.com 250-<servername> Hello [<client IP>] 250-SIZE 250-PIPELINING 250-DSN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-STARTTLS 250-X-ANONYMOUSTLS 250-AUTH NTLM 250-X-EXPS GSSAPI NTLM …

Configuring language settings for Out of Office messages in Exchange 2007

Exchange provides the ability to configure Out of Office messages. The owner of a mailbox can configure different messages to be sent to users inside the organization and outside. The user is free to enter any text he wants, in any language, but the subject of the Out of Office message i handled by the …

WinRM problem on new Exchange 2010 server

I recently upgraded to Exchange 2010 on my home network. Everything went well, but when I started the Exchange Management Console for the first time I got this error when trying to open the Server ConfigurationClient Access node: —————————Microsoft Exchange—————————Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : The WinRM client received an …