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Microsoft Security Essentials Exclusion List
To add exclusions, click on Settings > Excluded files & locations, then click the Add button to add an entry.
For Windows XP, add the following exclusion:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials
For Vista/Windows 7, add the following exclusions:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials
C:\Program Data\Microsoft\Microsoft Security Essentials
C:\Program Data\Microsoft\Microsoft Antimalware
From:
The Four Stages of NTFS File Growth
Scheduling complete pc backup
how to schedule complete pc backup?
wbadmin.exe is the command line that is included in vista as well as windows server 2008. it can be used to schedule to backup all volumes hosting critical system data and/or user data volumes. if all system critical volumes are backed up – system can be recovered from a hard disk disaster when computer does not boot back.
command line : wbadmin.exe start backup -allcritical -include:m: -backuptarget:t: -quiet
where m: is data volume
-allcritical will select backup all critical volumes hosting sysstem critical data.
t: is the backup location.
note – backup target t: should not be on the same disk as other critical system partitions. this is to ensure that backup is not lost in case of hard disk disaster. for exmaple – you can have it on an external usb disk.
steps to create task scheduler task
launch task scheduler UI
1. click start button
2. type ‘task’ – select ‘task scheduler’ program found as result of search. this will launch task scheduler UI.
3. click action — ‘create task’
Fill details
4. In general tab – fill task name, select ‘run with highest privileges’ checkbox. this is required since the task should run as an administrator.
5. select the user account which has administrative privileges
5. in trigger tab – add a new trigger. only user the settings to schedule daily/weekly/monthly as needed. leave the advanced settings as is.
6. in actions tab – add a new action. type %windir%\system32\wbadmin.exe in the program or use browse button to select the same.
7. add arguments – type : start backup -allcritical -include:m: -backuptarget:t: -quiet
m: and t: need to be replaced with drives on your machine. if you do not have any data drive other than critical volumes – you can remove "-include:m:"
8. click ok to save the task
to test the task runs fine –
1. click ‘task scheduler library’ in the task scheduler UI
2. right click your task name and click "run".
3. this should launch a command prompt and display backup progress.
once the task completes successfully – you are all set. the schedule task should run as scheduled by you and create complete pc backups.
you can ran a command prompt as administrator ( start button-> type cmd.exe -> right click -> run as administrator) and use command
wbadmin get versions to see all versions which are available for recovery.
HTH
——- this information is provided as-is without any warranties, implicit or explicit.
SBS 2008: Introducing the POP3 Connector
Website prompting for username and password – Plesk 9.2 Windows 2008
http://24x7servermanagement.com/blog/?p=731
Many times when you create a website from Plesk it works fine initially but suddenly one day you get a username and password prompt on your website which is very frustating and annoying. We have been gone through such issues quite enough so here is what you need to do.
1.) Check permissions for the domain. Open Plesk panel – Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation panel. Select the check box corresponding to the domain name you want to perform permissions check on. Click Check permissions.
2.) Delete file .Security from the domain directory: ( Basically under yourdomain.com folder )
%plesk_vhosts%\domain.tld
3.) Reconfigure the domain settings:
“%plesk_bin%\websrvmng.exe” –reconfigure-vhost –vhost-name=yourdomain.com
4.) Reset the domains password from Plesk panel
Restart the website from the IIS , Well if the problem still persists you need to check the permissions from IIS , Make sure you have proper authentication setup for IUSR_Username and proper authentication for the domains application pool.
Usefull Plesk SQL Statements
http://www.thesupportsystem.co.uk/?p=344
FTP ACCOUNTS
SELECT account_id AS ‘ID’, login AS ‘USERNAME’, password AS ‘PASSWORD’, home AS ‘HOMEDIR’ FROM sys_users S, accounts A WHERE S.account_id = A.id;
MAIL ACCOUNTS
For all Domains
SELECT account_id AS ‘ID’, mail_name AS ‘USERNAME’, password AS ‘PASSWORD’, postbox as ‘MAILBOX?’, name AS ‘DOMAIN’, redir_addr as REDIRECT FROM mail M, domains D, accounts A WHERE M.account_id = A.id AND M.dom_id = D.id ORDER BY name;
For a Specific Domain
SELECT account_id AS ‘ID’, mail_name AS ‘USERNAME’, password AS ‘PASSWORD’, postbox as ‘MAILBOX?’, name AS ‘DOMAIN’, redir_addr as REDIRECT FROM mail M, domains D, accounts A WHERE M.account_id = A.id AND M.dom_id = D.id AND D.name=’****DOMAIN_NAME****‘;
MySQL ACCOUNTS
Plesk 7
SELECT d.name AS DOMAIN, db.name AS DB, du.login as USER, du.passwd as PASS FROM db_users du, data_bases db, domains d WHERE du.db_id = db.id AND db.dom_id=d.id ORDER BY d.name, db.name;
Plesk 8 & 9
SELECT d.name AS DOMAIN, db.name AS DB, du.login as USER, a.password as PASS FROM db_users du, data_bases db, domains d, accounts a WHERE du.db_id = db.id AND db.dom_id=d.id and du.account_id=a.id ORDER BY d.name, db.name;
CLIENT ACCOUNTS
Plesk 7
SELECT id as ‘ID’, login as ‘USERNAME’, passwd as ‘PASSWORD’, cname as ‘COMPANY’ FROM clients ORDER BY login;
Plesk 8 & 9
SELECT c.id as client, a.id as account, c.login, a.password from clients c, accounts a where a.id=c.account_id;
Customize your bash prompt
Migration of Messages Using IMAP to MailEnable
http://forum.mailenable.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17410&p=63212&hilit=migration#p63212
Navigate to the users folder location and delete the index.xml file. The index file will be rebuilt upon logging into web mail and should contain the new imported messages.