Check account details on the domain

Open windows command prompt
type the following

net user [userid] /domain

It will show you the details of the account.

Telnet is not recognized as windows command

There are 2 things that you can do.
1) Install Telnet from the Windows feature
Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn Windows feature on or off
Under feature section, find Telnet client ensure that it's ticked (if it's not).
Once (1) is installed, if you still encounter telnet is not recognized error, you can proceed with (2)

2) Go to Environment variables
Right click on my computer, select Properties, on the left side select Advanced System Settings.
Under Advanced tab, click Environment Variables, under System variables section, find the Variable = Path, ensure that C:\Windows\System32 is there. If it's not there, just append it.
Then click OK.

You should be able to run telnet commands now.

Windows 7 upgrade error - External table is not in the expected format.

Before the upgrade it's working fine, after upgrade, my user experienced that error:
External table is not in the expected format.

After debugging, found out that there's 2 files being processed, even though my user only puts 1 file into the upload folder.
Turned out to be the second file is Thumbs.db, usually used for thumbnails.
But I cannot see this file in the folder itself.
So what do we need to do?
Simple, just ask your user to go to Windows Explorer, go to Tools, Folder Options

On View tab, tick the first one, Always show icons, never thumbnails then click ok.
Go to that upload folder, remove any Thumbs.db if there's is any.
It should solve the problem.

Reference: here

IIS -> Database

In order to connect into the database from IIS

If you want to use a special account, u can specify in the AppsPool
Here's how to set in IIS6:
- Open AppsPool properties
- Go to Identity
- Select the configurable and put in the user name and password to connect to the database there.

However if you would like to use user's logged in account u need to add the following into your web.config

<identity impersonate="true"/>

Reference: here

Authentication Methods
In order to use Windows authentication, you may set the following in IIS:

• If SQL Server is on the same computer as IIS, select the Integrated Windows authentication check box.
• If SQL Server is a remote server, select the Basic Authentication check box and clear the Integrated Windows authentication check box.

In order to remove the prompt for username and password in IIS6 for Windows Authentication, you need to perform the following:
1) Open IIS
2) Open the website properties
3) Click 'Properties...' button (under Logging) on the Web Sites tab.
4)Take note of the website ID, the number after W3SVC

Default WebSite ID will be 1.
5) Open command prompt
6) Go to directory C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts
7) To check if the NT Authentication Provider is set, type  
cscript adsutil.vbs get w3svc/<WebSiteID>/root/NTAuthenticationProviders  
Note: Please replace the with the website ID from step 4.
8) If it’s not set or if the value is not NTLM, please set the NT Authentication Providers by typing the following cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/<WebSiteID>/root/NTAuthenticationProviders "NTLM"

Note: Please replace the with the website ID from step 4.

Once you have set, please perform step 7 to check if it is already “NTLM"

 After you set this, once you open your website (for Integrated Windows Authentication), it will not prompt the username and password.

Enable .net 4 in Windows Server 2003 IIS 6

If you are using .net 4 in Win Server 2003 and you got this 'Page Not Found' error.
In order to enable .net 4 after installation in IIS6, you may check the following:

Open IIS
Go to the Web Service Extension folder
Ensure .NET 4 is Allowed (not Prohibited)!

That's all ^-^
For other checking, you may google it.
Reference: here and here

Sharing permission vs security

The Security Tab is the NTFS permissions.
Sharing permissions only apply when a user accesses a share via the network.

If the person is not given write permissions at the sharing level, then no matter the NTFS permissions, they will not be able to write to the folder.

Folder/NTFS permissions apply to a local logon or network access. If sharing
permissions conflict with folder/NTFS permissions for a network user, the
most restrictive permission will apply to the user. In other words if a user
has only read access in the sharing permission but full control to the folder/NTFS
permissions. That user will only have to read/list/execute access over the
network for the share contents.

Reference: 1 2

System account in Windows

The system account and the administrator account (Administrators group) have the same file privileges, but they have different functions. The system account is used by the operating system and by services that run under Windows.
By default, the system account is granted full control to all files on an NTFS volume.
The system account's permissions can be removed from a file but it is not recommended.
Reference: here

RUN command shortcuts

Accessibility Controls : access.cpl
Add Hardware Wizard : hdwwiz.cpl
Add/Remove Programs : appwiz.cpl
Administrative Tools : control admintools
Automatic Updates : wuaucpl.cpl
Bluetooth Transfer Wizard : fsquirt
Calculator : calc
Certificate Manager : certmgr.msc
Character Map : charmap
Check Disk Utility : chkdsk
Clipboard Viewer : clipbrd
Command Prompt : cmd
Component Services : dcomcnfg
Computer Management : compmgmt.msc
Date and Time Properties : timedate.cpl
DDE Shares : ddeshare
Device Manager : devmgmt.msc
Direct X Control Panel (If Installed)* : directx.cp
Direct X Troubleshooter : dxdiag
Disk Cleanup Utility : cleanmgr
Disk Defragment : dfrg.msc
Disk Management : diskmgmt.msc
Disk Partition Manager : diskpart
Display Properties : control desktop
Display Properties : desk.cpl
Display Properties (w/Appearance Tab Preselected) : control color
Dr. Watson System Troubleshooting Utility : drwtsn32
Driver Verifier Utility : verifier
Event Viewer : eventvwr.msc
File Signature Verification Tool : sigverif
Findfast : findfast.cpl
Folders Properties : control folders
Fonts : control fonts
Fonts Folder : fonts
Free Cell Card Game : freecell
Game Controllers : joy.cpl
Group Policy Editor (XP Prof) : gpedit.msc
Hearts Card Game : mshearts
Iexpress Wizard : iexpress
Indexing Service : ciadv.msc
Internet Properties : inetcpl.cpl
IP Configuration (Display Connection Configuration) : ipconfig /all
IP Configuration (Display DNS Cache Contents) : ipconfig /displaydns
IP Configuration (Delete DNS Cache Contents) : ipconfig /flushdns
IP Configuration (Release All Connections) : ipconfig /release
IP Configuration (Renew All Connections) : ipconfig /renew
IP Configuration (Refreshes DHCP & Re-Registers DNS) : ipconfig /registerdns
IP Configuration (Display DHCP Class ID) : ipconfig /showclassid
IP Configuration (Modifies DHCP Class ID) : ipconfig /setclassid
Java Control Panel (If Installed) : jpicpl32.cpl
Java Control Panel (If Installed) : javaws
Keyboard Properties : control keyboard
Local Security Settings : secpol.msc
Local Users and Groups : lusrmgr.msc
Logs You Out Of Windows : logoff
Microsoft Chat : winchat
Minesweeper Game : winmine
Mouse Properties : control mouse
Mouse Properties : main.cpl
Network Connections : control netconnections
Network Connections : ncpa.cpl
Network Setup Wizard : netsetup.cpl
Notepad : notepad
Nview Desktop Manager (If Installed) : nvtuicpl.cpl
Object Packager : packager
ODBC Data Source Administrator : odbccp32.cpl
On Screen Keyboard : osk
Opens AC3 Filter (If Installed) : ac3filter.cpl
Password Properties : password.cpl
Performance Monitor : perfmon.msc
Performance Monitor : perfmon
Phone and Modem Options : telephon.cpl
Power Configuration : powercfg.cpl
Printers and Faxes : control printers
Printers Folder : printers
Private Character Editor : eudcedit
Quicktime (If Installed) : QuickTime.cpl
Regional Settings : intl.cpl
Registry Editor : regedit
Registry Editor : regedit32
Remote Desktop : mstsc
Removable Storage : ntmsmgr.msc
Removable Storage Operator Requests : ntmsoprq.msc
Resultant Set of Policy (XP Prof) : rsop.msc
Scanners and Cameras : sticpl.cpl
Scheduled Tasks : control schedtasks
Security Center : wscui.cpl
Services : services.msc
Shared Folders : fsmgmt.msc
Shuts Down Windows : shutdown
Sounds and Audio : mmsys.cpl
Spider Solitare Card Game : spider
SQL Client Configuration : cliconfg
System Configuration Editor : sysedit
System Configuration Utility : msconfig
System File Checker Utility (Scan Immediately) : sfc /scannow
System File Checker Utility (Scan Once At Next Boot) : sfc /scanonce
System File Checker Utility (Scan On Every Boot) : sfc /scanboot
System File Checker Utility (Return to Default Setting) : sfc /revert
System File Checker Utility (Purge File Cache) : sfc /purgecache
System File Checker Utility (Set Cache Size to size x) : sfc /cachesize=x
System Properties : sysdm.cpl
Task Manager : taskmgr
Telnet Client : telnet
User Account Management : nusrmgr.cpl
Utility Manager : utilman
Windows Firewall : firewall.cpl
Windows Magnifier : magnify
Windows Management Infrastructure : wmimgmt.msc
Windows System Security Tool : syskey
Windows Update Launches : wupdmgr
Windows XP Tour Wizard : tourstart
Wordpad : write

taken from here