To fix the this error go to “Start” then “Run” and type regsvr32 ole32.dll (if that doesnt work try oleau32.dll)
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It is rare to have to manually remove a Windows service but on there are times when it is necasarry, like after a bad uninstall or testing beta software. I personally use 1 of 2 methods to remove a service.
Prior to removing any service make sure that it is atleast stopped and better yet disabled. [...]

Exchange 2007 transport rules are very useful in most cases but I had issues once trying to set up a rule for emails sent from a APC battery unit to be forwarded to my cell phone via text message. But I would recieve an error when configuring the rule when attempting to add my [...]

This is one way to access remote computer via command-line.

Download Remote Command-Line
Read the “Read Me” for instructions.

**** Another option for remote command-line access is to use psexec for sysinternals.

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WIWW2 is a great tool to create custom MSI’s. I use this (and others) to primary setup MSI’s to deploy via script, GPO, WDM. Its a simple and no thrills wrapper but it does the trick.
This program is pretty much almost impossible to find now but here it is…
Windows Installer Wrapper Wizard (aka. WIWW2)
Download WWIW2

If [...]

The problem:
When opening an Excel 2007 spreadsheet in Office 2003 w/ converter pack you receive stranger errors. The first error may say something like “C:\Documents.xls could not be found”. That would be great if that was the spreadsheet you were trying to open but it doesn’t matter what spreadsheet you open, It always says that [...]

Several months ago I retired an old helpdesk server that hosted a ghost cast server which our helpdesk department used to deploy desktops. Even though I was a big fan of ghost I knew that it was out-dated and I heard that Microsoft’s WDS was much better than its predecessor (RIS). I decided to try [...]

 
When I reviewed our server backups that take place over the weekend I noticed that one of our SQL servers failed which was odd. In the servers event log it showed two errors relating to VSS… Event ID 12292 and 11. Seeing that SQL relies on VSS for backups I went to check the snapshots under the disk properties. [...]

SMTP commands:

Command

Description

References

ATRN
Authenticated TURN.
RFC 2645

AUTH
Authentication.
RFC 2554

BDAT
Binary data.
RFC 3030

BURL
Remote Content.
RFC 4468

DATA
Data.
RFC 2821

EHLO
Extended Hello.
RFC 2821

ETRN
Extended Turn.
RFC 1985

EXPN
Expand
RFC 2821

HELO
Hello
RFC 2821

HELP
Help
RFC 2821

MAIL
Mail
RFC 2821

NOOP
No operation
RFC 2821

ONEX
One message transaction only.
 

QUIT
Quit
RFC 2821

RCPT
Recipient
RFC 2821

RSET
Reset
RFC 2821

SAML
Send and mail.
RFC 821

SEND
Send.
RFC 821

SOML
Send or mail.
RFC 821

STARTTLS
 
RFC 3207

SUBMITTER
SMTP Responsible Submitter.
RFC 4405

TURN
Turn.
RFC 821

VERB
Verbose.
 

VRFY
Verify.
RFC 2821

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Start off by opening a command prompt or terminal shell
then type:     telnet mail.domain.ext 25
You should receive a reply like saying “220″ and the service is ready followed by the date/time. This depends on how your email server is configured.
Example:
220 mail.domain.ext ESMTP Service ready at date+time+gmtoffset? (or somehting similiar)
Now that you are connected you will then [...]