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What are the Safe Mode options? When should I use them? If you are unable to start your system by using Last Known Good Configuration, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 provides safe mode, a startup option that disables startup programs and nonessential services to create an environment useful for troubleshooting and…

Installing the Adminpak.msi will install all of the management tools that are needed to administer Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro and Windows Server 2003 computers and network. Adminpak.msi has a few versions, and the latest one is for Windows Server 2003 SP1. Read more about Adminpak.msi on the Download Windows 2000 Adminpak.msi, Download Windows 2003…

Why do get errors when trying to run programs or MMC snap-ins with the RUNAS command? As a security best practice, it is recommended that you do not log on to your computer with administrative credentials. Running your computer as a member of the Administrators group makes the system vulnerable to Trojan horses attacks and…

How can I run Windows Explorer as another user (one with administrative privileges)? To find out how to open File Explorer as another user, follow the instructions below for easy access to administrative functionalities. Sometimes you’ll want to do file and folder modifications, or even partition formatting, but you won’t want to do it while…

How can I run Control Panel applets as another user (one with administrative privileges)? Sometimes you’ll want to do file and folder modifications, or even partition formatting, but you won’t want to do it while logged on as an administrator. Every Control Panel applet is in fact a file with a .CPL extension. If you…

How can I run Active Directory management tools as another user (one with administrative privileges)? As a security best practice, it is recommended that you do not log on to your computer with administrative credentials. Running your computer as a member of the Administrators group makes the system vulnerable to Trojan horses attacks and other security…

We all know that Windows Active Directory (AD) Group Policy is very powerful. It can apply policies on the PCs in your Windows AD domain. However, the list of policies is limited as are the scheduling and reporting of those policies. While you might be able to run a Powershell script or VB script on…

Error message 401.3 when setting up RPC over HTTP/S on Exchange 2003, after installing SP1 for Windows Server 2003 RPC over HTTP/S is a cool method for connecting your Outlook 2003 client to the corporate Exchange Server 2003 from the Internet or WAN, without the need to establish a VPN session to the corporate LAN…

Most of us use the MMC to administer Windows 2000 RRAS. But what happens when you need to route an incoming VPN client back to the net and you’re using NAT with private, non-routable addresses? Users of the company’s VPN used complain about losing internet access while using VPN. The usual way to avoid this…

Imagine the following scenario: You perform a full backup of mailbox store on Exchange 2000/2003.   You move a mailbox from the backed-up store to an Exchange 2007 server.   You try to leverage the Recovery Storage Group feature on the Exchange 2000/2003 server to restore the contents of the mailbox in question using ExMerge…