Terminal Services Administrator RunAs string in a big company domain with UAC enforced by policy (no GPEdit here).  Problem is "the requested operation requires elevation."

Trick is to use the /netonly switch.

C:\Windows\system32>runas /netonly /user:domain\userid "mmc %windir%\system32\tsadmin.msc"

References:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistaapps/thread/afb2a94a-fa9a-4d15-b43d-e492b44cf1e6/

This problem was caused by Kaspersky Antivirus 2012.  This is NOT Kaspersky Internet Security.

Trying to share my screen in Lync 2010.

Received errors:

Sharing failed to connect due to network issues.

Screen sharing stopped due to server connectivity issues.

Sharing ended due to network issues.

Stopping Kaspersky Antivirus fixed the issue, so how do you configure an exception for Lync?

Open Kaspersky

Click Settings.

Select Detected Threats and Exclusion Rules and then Settings.

Trusted applications tab.  Click Add.

Using either the Applications flyout or Browse, locate communicator.exe and add it.

Select “Do not scan network traffic” and click OK.

Sharing should now work!

I don’t have “Run with different credentials”, I have only “Run as administrator”, any ideas?

Some keyboard shortcuts for different context menu’s for the Superbar in Windows 7:

• Shift+Click on the icon to launch another instance of the application.
• Ctrl+Shift+Click on the icon to launch an instance of the application an elevated (administrative) mode.
• Shift+Right Click to get the standard taskbar context menu for that application (valid for a single instance, for multiple instances, you get the taskbar group context menu).

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/hidden-right-click-context-menu-options-windows-7/

http://www.tomstricks.com/how-to-enable-run-as-another-user-option-in-windows-7-context-menu/

C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /noprofile /user:domain\username “mmc %SystemRoot%\system32\dsa.msc”

C:\Windows\System32\runas.exe /user:domain\username “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\MSACCESS.EXE”

If you are running Visio 2010 on Windows 7 x64 and it keeps crashing, you might be experiencing the "Send to Bluetooth" add-in issue.  To remove the add-in follow these steps.

1. Start Visio as administrator by Shift-right clicking the Visio shortcut and select "Run as administrator."
2. Select File | Options.
3. Select Add-Ins from the links on the left of the Options dialog.
4. Click the Go… button next to the Manage COM Add-ins drop-down list at the bottom of the Options dialog.
5. Select the Send to Bluetooth add-in and click Remove.

Now maybe your Visio won’t keep crashing!

I’ve been having some issues with Visio 2010 throwing an error (Microsoft Visio has stopped working) when I’m closing it down and tracked it back (with the help of others) to potentially the "Send to Bluetooth" add-in.  I’ve since disabled it using this procedure.

Under the File menu (backstage), select Options.  Click on Add-Ins.  Click on Manage Visio Add-ins and click the Go button.

Uncheck Send to Bluetooth and click OK.

It should show up in the Inactive Application Add-ins.  Check it out and see if you still get the error.

I was getting a constant loop when logging in to a Gmail account (domain.gmail.com).  Luckily, I found this article.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=4b96896bb7f22920&hl=en

Let me summarize.

Remove any references to google.com from your trusted sites.

I’m not a Microsoft Project expert, but I’ve been using project off and on since the mid 90’s and usually know what I want to accomplish with it.  At times, however, I tend to struggle trying to find the commands in the stupid tool ribbon. 

I created a custom calendar to represent a reduced work schedule, but I originally created it with a typo and wanted to remove it.  Try as I might, I couldn’t figure out how to delete or rename the offending calendar using any of the options in the Project Properties ribbon.  Seems like it would make sense to be in there somewhere.  I also tried to find it in the File | Options dialog on the “backstage.” 

I finally found it within the Organizer within View menu (that makes lots of sense).  If you navigate to one of the view selectors you can find the Organizer.  The organizer has all the management options for the objects stored in the global and project templates.  Once you find this, it’s easy to delete or rename your calendar.

Okay, now I feel better.

If you find that you need to disable and enable a network connection in a batch file, you can use the netsh command.  I was having some issues of a network interface going “deaf” at times on one of my VMs and found that if I disabled the connection and enabled it and the problem would go away.  I don’t like this solution, but in the short term, it’s going to have to do until I find the source of the problem.

netsh interface set interface "WAN Connection" disable
netsh interface set interface "WAN Connection" enable

The “WAN Connection” is the name of the connection in the network connections controls panel applet.

If you are moving a VM from Virtual Server to Hyper-V and can’t uninstall the VS additions (which is a requirement before being able to install integration services), here is a little hack I found reading http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/d803c97a-5d4e-4643-8ea6-1ff51184b133/.

I added some updates to show the items that were removed from the MSI file, using the Orca MSI editor (http://www.technipages.com/download-orca-msi-editor.html).

The two actions that need to be removed from the MSI file are CA_CheckForRunningInsideAVirtualMachine and Error_CheckForRunningInsideAVirtualMachine.  Simply select each one and press the delete key and save the MSI file you may want to back up the MSI file before you do this).

Then you should be able to remove the Virtual Machine Additions without a problem. 

Using the procedure provided by the Microsoft Outlook team you can back up your signature files and restore them on another computer.  I was actually transferring them from an XP computer running Outlook 2010 to a Windows 7 computer running Outlook 2010.

The primary, mystery meat navigation trick to this is to ctrl-click on the signatures button to open the folder where all your signature files are located.  From here you can copy all the contents from one machine to another (or to a backup location).

On Outlook 2010, this button is located on the “backstage” options screen.  Use File | Options and select the Mail item to navigate to the Signatures button.  This is where you can ctrl-click to open the folder containing the signature files.

On the XP machine, the location of the Signatures folder is Documents and Settings\Username\ApplicationData\Microsoft\Signatures.

On the Windows 7 machine, the location is Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures.

You should now have access to your signatures.