Have you ever have to restore your local administrator password because you forget the password of it?
The best boot CD so far:
http://trinityhome.org
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
IIS Anonymous User Account Reset Password
If you get this:
HTTP 401.1: DENIED BY INVALID USER CREDENTIALS:
This error code will have you focus on the credentials of the IUSR account. If you are receiving a 401.1, from a IIS perspective it means we have to go and look at IIS to make sure the IUSR username and password is correct for Anonymous access on all the IIS vDir's.
Occasionally the IIS guest account (IUSR_ account) has it's password out of sync between the IIS Metabase, Active Directory OR SAM (depending if the IUSR account is a local or domain account) and the credentials entered as the Anonymous user and password for the WSUS Virtual Directories in IIS. We need to make sure that the correct user account and credentials are used at 2 places:
In Active Directory or Local Account.
In the IIS Metabase.
Ensure that the IUSR account is not locked. Sometimes a 401.1 error could be caused by a locked IUSR account.
Then query the IIS Metabase to establish what the existing IUSR password is:
Edit c:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\ADSutil.vbs
Search for the line that reads "IsSecureProperty = True" and change it to "IsSecureProperty = False". Save and close the file.
From command line run:
Cscript adsutil.vbs get w3svc\anonymoususerpass
This will return an output like this:
anonymoususerpass : (STRING) "ThisIsTheIUSRaccountPassword"
Take note of the password, INSIDE of the quotes. The quotes are not part of the password. For safety, copy it into notepad.
Go to either Active Directory (if a domain account is used for the IUSR account) or find the LOCAL ACCOUNT for IUSR. In most cases IUSR will be a local account. Reset the password for your IUSR account with the password we just pulled from the IIS Metabase.
HTTP 401.1: DENIED BY INVALID USER CREDENTIALS:
This error code will have you focus on the credentials of the IUSR account. If you are receiving a 401.1, from a IIS perspective it means we have to go and look at IIS to make sure the IUSR username and password is correct for Anonymous access on all the IIS vDir's.
Occasionally the IIS guest account (IUSR_ account) has it's password out of sync between the IIS Metabase, Active Directory OR SAM (depending if the IUSR account is a local or domain account) and the credentials entered as the Anonymous user and password for the WSUS Virtual Directories in IIS. We need to make sure that the correct user account and credentials are used at 2 places:
In Active Directory or Local Account.
In the IIS Metabase.
Ensure that the IUSR account is not locked. Sometimes a 401.1 error could be caused by a locked IUSR account.
Then query the IIS Metabase to establish what the existing IUSR password is:
Edit c:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\ADSutil.vbs
Search for the line that reads "IsSecureProperty = True" and change it to "IsSecureProperty = False". Save and close the file.
From command line run:
Cscript adsutil.vbs get w3svc\anonymoususerpass
This will return an output like this:
anonymoususerpass : (STRING) "ThisIsTheIUSRaccountPassword"
Take note of the password, INSIDE of the quotes. The quotes are not part of the password. For safety, copy it into notepad.
Go to either Active Directory (if a domain account is used for the IUSR account) or find the LOCAL ACCOUNT for IUSR. In most cases IUSR will be a local account. Reset the password for your IUSR account with the password we just pulled from the IIS Metabase.
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
The Best PST Password Recovery Utility
I've been trying to recover a PST file for the last 4 weeks!
Yes, I know there are a lot of utilities out there that promise you to recover the password of your PST file.
I tell you something, none of them is able to recover a password of a PST file that has a size of 4.0 GB - yes it is four GIG! All of them saying the file is corrupted! but it is not.
Only one utility can open the file and recover the password: PstPassword
This is the best utility for this matter, it is free and it works!
The website has a lot of other utilities, check it out.
Yes, I know there are a lot of utilities out there that promise you to recover the password of your PST file.
I tell you something, none of them is able to recover a password of a PST file that has a size of 4.0 GB - yes it is four GIG! All of them saying the file is corrupted! but it is not.
Only one utility can open the file and recover the password: PstPassword
This is the best utility for this matter, it is free and it works!
The website has a lot of other utilities, check it out.