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I hate this one really…

Then path to file exceeds 255 symbols it becames corrupted and you can have very hard time to delete or rename it.

Ok, how to deal with this.

At this case you have three choices:

1. Dont use too long paths! Use short names for you folders and avoid naming folders this way:

“Very important documents for financial department that were copied from local storage at 20080607″

2. If you did already,  you can try to follow path to file and try to rename some very long folder names to shorter one.

3. You can use third party software that will run on your Windows server 2003, Windows XP and even older machines to deal with these files.

One of really great and free utils is “DelinvFile”.

You can download it from here .

If you are looking for quick way to get information about remote system this how to is for you. I present you network scan tool – Winfingerprint. This tool is designed to gather information about Microsoft systems and applications. It can use RPC, ICMP, SMB, SNMP, TCP and UDP to obtain various information. You can quickly get information about remote OS version, users, groups, SID, password policies, services, shares, disks and much more.

You can read more about this tool here .

Tool can be downloaded from this location .

This post will show you how to run Network Diagnostics scan to test your network connectivity and troubleshoot related issues. I personally run this tool first thing every time i troubleshoot network related issues on client system. To run scan open command line on your Windows XP and type:

netsh diag gui

In “Network Diagnostics” windows select “Set scanning options” to set or unset various scanning objects that will be tested during scan.

To start scan press “Scan your system” button.

This post will show you how to troubleshoot various errors of Windows server and other products. Microsoft provides you with command line tool which will guide you through errors and will help to understand their meanings.

This tool is named err.exe and can be downloaded from here .

Enjoy

This how to will provide you with link to download Microsoft advanced calculator. It is equiped with advanced mathematical and conversion functions.

Tool can be downloaded from this site .

This post will show how to verify domain trust relationship in one-way and two-way trust cases. Lets say we have testdomain1.com and testdomain2.com domains with one-way trust established. To verify one-way domain trust open command line on your Windows server 2003 and type:

netdom trust /d:testdomain1.com testdomain2.com /verify

If we have two-way trust established to verify it type:

netdom trust /d:testdomain1.com testdomain2.com /verify /twoway

Note that netdom is part of Windows server 2003 support tools. They can be found on your OS CD (Support\Tools directory) .

This post will show you how to remove you server from domain using command line tool netdom. Lets say we want to remove server named “Testserver” from domain testdomain.com.  To do it open command line on your Windows server 2003 and type:

netdom remove /d:testdomain.com testserver /ud:testdomain.com\Admin /pd:Pa$$w0rd

Note that netdom is part of Windows server 2003 support tools. They can be found on your OS CD (Support\Tools directory) .

This article will show you how to install new version of powershell. Note that before Powershell v2.0 (CTP) install you have to uninstall Powershell 1.0 from your Windows server 2003 or Windows XP computer. For that go to add and remove programs window, mark “Show updates” option and remove Powershell 1.0.

After that you have to install WS-Management v1.1 package which can be downloaded from here .

And finally download and install Powershell v2.0 .

If you want to have visual picture of your active directory topology you can use Microsoft tool named “Active Directory Topology Diagrammer” which scans Active Directory information and creates Visio picture. This tool will work on Windows server 2003 and Windows XP/Vista systems. You can download it from here .

Note that you need Microsoft Office Vision 2003 or 2007 to run this tool.

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