http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2008/08/28/8904493.aspx

http://blogs.technet.com/b/yongrhee/archive/2012/10/06/tool-trying-to-figure-out-what-error-code-0x8007005-and-other-0x0000000-codes-mean.aspx

 

2011:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2011/07/13/default-services-and-their-status-in-sbs-2011.aspx

2008:

http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2009/06/05/default-sbs-2008-running-services.aspx

2003:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829623

http://lifehacker.com/5823096/how-to-burn-your-own-lion-install-dvd-or-flash-drive

 

Getting Lion from the App Store is convenient, but if you want a physical copy of the installation, you can easily make your own Lion install DVD or USB drive with Disk Utility.

If you want to do a clean installation of Lion (or you want to install it on a Hackintosh), you’ll need to install it on some sort of physical media. Apple will be releasing a flash drive installer for a whopping $70 in August, but you don’t need to wait (or pay twice the OS’s price) to get it. It’s very easy to burn Apple’s installer to a single layer DVD or flash drive of 5GB or larger.

Important: Note that the Lion installer deletes itself if you upgrade, so if you want to do this, you have to do it before you update your computer to Lion. You can always re-download Lion after the fact, but geez, who wants to do that? Once you’ve got it on your system, here’s what you do:

1. Download Lion from the Mac App Store. The installer should show up in your Applications folder.
2. Right-click on the installer and hit "Show Package Contents". Navigate to Contents > SharedSupport and look for a file called "InstallESD.dmg".
3. Open up Disk Utility and drag the DMG file into the left-hand sidebar. If you’re burning it to a DVD, insert your DVD, select the disk image in the sidebar, and hit the "Burn" button. Skip down to the last step to use it.
4. If you want to burn Lion to a USB flash drive, plug it in and click on it in the left-hand sidebar in Disk Utility. Go to the Partition tab and select "1 Partition" from the dropdown menu. Choose "Mac OS Extended (Journaled) on the left.
5. Hit the Options button under the partition table and choose "GUID Partition Table". You’ll need this to make the drive bootable on a Mac. Hit the Apply button when you’re done to format your drive (note: it will erase everything on the drive).
6. Click on the "Restore" tab, choose the InstallESD.dmg file as the source and your flash drive as the destination. Hit the Apply button and it will create your bootable USB drive.
7. Reboot into OS X and hold the option key when you hear the startup chime. You can boot into your DVD or flash drive from there.

You’ll not only be able to install Lion from this drive, but you’ll also be able to use Disk Utiltiy, recover from a Time Machine backup, and do everything else you could do with the old installation DVDs. Note that when you install Lion, it’ll create a recovery partition with all these features anyway, so you don’t need the DVD unless you’re doing a clean install. Though it’s always nice to have around in case something happens, like you erase your entire drive. Not that that’s ever happened to me 3 times in one week or anything.

 

http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/

Repairing User Permissions in OS X Lion

You’ll need to reboot to perform this, and then use the same resetpassword utility that is used to change passwords in Lion, but instead choosing a hidden option.

When you use the Disk Utility app and Repair Permissions — it doesn’t actually repair the permission settings on folders and files in your Home folder where your documents and personal applications reside.

In Lion, there is an additional Repair Permissions application utility hidden away. This tool is located inside boot Repair Utilities. Here’s how to access it.

1. Restart Lion and hold down the Command and R keys.
2. You will boot into the Repair Utilities screen. On top, in the Menu Bar click the Utilities item then select Terminal.
3. In the Terminal window, type resetpassword and hit Return.
4. The Password reset utility launches, but you’re not going to reset the password. Instead, click on the icon for your Mac’s hard drive at the top. From the drop-down below it, select the user account where you are having issues.
5. At the bottom of the window, you’ll see an area labeled ‘Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs’. Click the Reset button there.

The reset process takes a couple of minutes. When it’s done, quit the programs you’ve opened and restart your Mac. Notice that ‘Spotlight’ starts re-indexing immediately.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2009/12/04/3408943.aspx

https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1275-page1.html

http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2010/05/26/using-checksur-and-update-packages-to-fix-corruption.aspx

My last post was on CheckSUR and I wanted to follow it up with how you can use the CheckSUR utility to fix corruption errors that CheckSUR might detect, but that cant be fixed with the utility.

Typically, the way that CheckSUR works is that it takes the information included with its payload, loads it locally to your machine into the \Windows\CheckSUR directory and then runs the actual executable on the system. As this executable runs, it detects discrepencies in the package store and corrects the errors that it carries a payload for. But, what do you do when you have a package manifest that shows up in the CheckSUR log but doesnt have the payload with it? If you were to call my team we’ll typically try to walk you through getting the files from another server, taking ownership of the servicing directories and moving the files. But what if this is an isolated server? Worse, what if you only have one PC at home and you’re having issues? Well, there is an easier way.

What you should do is identify the package(s) that CheckSUR was not able to fix, they’re usually listed at the end of the log. From there, you can take that information and go the Microsoft Download site and pull down the KBXXXXXX.MSU that corresponds to the package that you’re seeing failures on. Since you’ve already run CheckSUR to get to this point, you can copy that .MSU to the \Windows\CheckSUR\packages directory (NOTE: This directory does not exist by default and must be created) and then re-run CheckSUR which will take care of the rest. If you’re still having issues afterwards, that just means that something else is going on with the system that is going to require more than CheckSUR can accomplish. Typically, this is true corruption and it may be unrecoverable.

As a side note, CheckSUR doesnt have a command line interface component, so you cant rerun it once its been downloaded and installed, you just need to re-run the downloaded MSU package.

Hope that helps.

–Joseph

http://bestnetworksinc.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/completely-remove-symantec-antivirus-and-symantec-endpoint-protection-products/

The cleanwipe utility is used to completely remove Symantec Antivirus and Symantec Endpoint Protection products.

To obtain Cleanwipe please contact Symantec Technical support.
Once the utility has been obtained please follow these instructions:

This utility can be run on Windows 2000, Windows XP (32 and 64 bit), and Windows Server 2003 (32 and 64 bit.)

Warnings:
Do not run this utility on Windows NT, Windows 9x, or Windows Me.
Do not run this utility on systems that have Symantec AntiVirus 8.x or below installed.

You cannot select individual applications to remove.

CleanWipe may remove LiveUpdate.

CleanWipe will remove Virus Definitions if you select Yes to “Do you want to do a detailed MSI Product Code registry search?…”, even when selecting No to “If Virus Defs remain after uninstalling Symantec products do you want to uninstall the Virus Defs?”. If you have other Symantec applications that use the VirusDefs folder, it is recommended that you make backup copy of the VirusDefs folder before running the CleanWipe tool. The VirusDefs folder is located under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\

When using the CleanWipe utility, please be aware that it removes the following products and components from the computer:

Alert Management Server
Firewall Administrator
Quarantine Console
Quarantine Server
Symantec AntiVirus (Version 9.x and above)
Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition
Symantec Client
Symantec Client Firewall
Symantec Client Security
Symantec Endpoint Protection
Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager
Symantec LiveUpdate
Symantec Network Access Control
Symantec Sygate Enterprise Protection
Symantec System Center
Symevent

If you have other Symantec applications on the computer that depend on any of the applications listed above, those applications may not function properly. The customer may need to re-install the missing applications after running CleanWipe.

Note: The zip file is password protected.
Un-Zip Password: symantec

1. Extract the file to a new folder in a convenient location, such as the Desktop, using the un-zip password provided above.
2. Browse to the new folder and execute the utility by double clicking ‘CleanWipe.exe’
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.

The utility runs in verbose mode and will ask you about the components you want uninstalled.

Note: If the CleanWipe utility fails to remove Symantec Endpoint Protection, please proceed through the manual uninstall procedure for the version of the product you have installed.

You can find the manual uninstall instructions in the following document:

Title: How to manually uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection client from Windows 2000, XP and 2003, 32-bit Editions
Solution ID: 2007073018014248
Document URL:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2007073018014248

Title: ‘Manual uninstallation documents for Symantec Client Security products’
Solution ID: 2002031914291648
Document URL: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2002031914291648

————————————————[UPDATE]——————————————————–
You can use CLEANWIPE from Symantec to remove the AV and all other associated applications.

To download the utility, open the following web page in a browser:

https://fileshare.symantec.com

Log in with the following information:

Login ID: cleanwipeutility
Password: CL3@nw!p3

Once you have downloaded the utility, please follow these instructions.

Note: The zip file is password protected.
Un-Zip Password: symantec

1. Extract the file to a new folder in a convenient location, such as the Desktop, using the un-zip password provided above.
2. Browse to the new folder and execute the utility by double clicking ‘CleanWipe.exe’
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.

The utility runs in verbose mode and will ask you about the components you want uninstalled.

Note: If the CleanWipe utility fails to remove Symantec Endpoint Protection, please proceed through the manual uninstall procedure for the version of the product you have installed.

You can find the manual uninstall instructions in the following document:

Title: How to manually uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection client from Windows 2000, XP and 2003, 32-bit Editions
Solution ID: 2007073018014248
Document URL:

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2007073018014248

Title: ‘Manual uninstallation documents for Symantec Client Security products’
Solution ID: 2002031914291648
Document URL: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2002031914291648