Windows Genuine Validation for Corporate

In Corporate environment, when by mistake you install the WGA Validation update of late, you will be nagged about activating your Windows. A solution I’ve found for this from the comments in this web site, suggested the following: %windir%system32wgatray.exe /u Remove the following Registry tree: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogonNotifyWgaLogon After reboot, you will not get the nagging…

Moving Exchange Data

Lets assume you have a method of point-in-time copy of Microsoft Exchange DB and logs, while the system is running, to an alternate server. Let’s assume, if we’re at that, that this point-in-time is consistent, and that you can mount this store (depending on using the similar directory structure, etc.), on an alternate server, and…