I came across few occasions users wants to send executable files via E-Mail with valid business reasons. Nowadays, everyone blocks any executable extensions in e-mail attachments. If your company is not blocking the executable attachments, IT guys are not with the times. Any ways, even if the user zip the executable file, some companies strip … Continue reading How to send “Executable file” via E-mail? →

Another day in paradise. I got this error when I was trying to run XCACLS.vbs which is a Microsoft utility to read/change permissions on files and folders.  This utility (XCACLS) has lot of more options than CACLS.exe. I got the following error on my XP machine when running XCACLS.vbs file. There is even a spelling … Continue reading How do you change Scripting Engine in Windows? (“You are not using CScript for the scripting engine. Screen messages will be surpressed.”) →

One of my fellow System Administrator complained about few emails which he never received, like the mass emails sent within our company.  He also never saw any mails generated from system like alert emails. At one time, he said he saw an email briefly on his Windows Mobile and it's gone mysteriously from his Inbox. … Continue reading Mysterious Missing – Never received E-Mails →

You know how strange to look at the other side of the world. I have encountered my remote site UNIX admin guys made some blunder mistakes on Windows Servers. It happens on other way around also. The following stories are not meant to blame the UNIX guys in anyway, but wondering how do they see … Continue reading Tales of UNIX/Linux Admins managing Windows Servers →

I have added photos for my Outlook Contacts, which results the contact photo shows in email header in Outlook. Better yet, my Windows Mobile shows up the photos when someone calls from my contact list and mails show up with photo. I came across few users who amazed to see the photos in email header … Continue reading Outlook Contacts with Photos →

Is your Outlook keep poping up with authentication window? Is Outlook asks for username/password everytime it opens?   If you or the user changed the password (AD account) recently, Outlook authentication issue is bound to happen. I forgot where I read it (forums or MSKB), there is a simple solution. Changing your password while Outlook … Continue reading Outlook keep asking for username/password (Hint: user recently changed the password) →

I was writing a script which runs a program on Vista machine. It required administrative privileges, so the UAC pop-ups came up whenever I runs the script. I knew Microsoft should have some kind of mechanism to run the script in elevation mode. It turns out to be June 2007 Technet magazine has "Utility Spotlight" … Continue reading Script Elevation PowerToys for Windows Vista →

While back, we migrated computer and user accounts to new Active Directory Domain. We wanted all the client computers set the correct Primary DNS suffix, Connection specific DNS suffix and DNS search suffix list. I decided to write a little VBScript that can be added to our current logon script, so whenever user logs in … Continue reading How to add Primary DNS Suffix, Connection specific DNS Suffix and DNS Search Suffix list to all computers using a Script? →

I had to do a Group Policy modeling for new Wireless settings (uses Certificates and PEAP) for Windows XP and Vista based machines. Obviously Vista OS have to have  a different Wireless Group Policy. I decided to use WMI filters  to filter out Vista machines and started digging. The following are the links where I … Continue reading WMI Filters in Group Policy (especially for Vista machines) →

A user came to me for advice, asking "What's the best way to book recurring meetings with high number of attendees?" Her problem is first make sure the conference room is available for all the occurrences and rest of the attendees on the same time. It's really tough job.  Her major problem was some occurrence … Continue reading How to book recurring meetings with a resource and Huge group of people? →