Category Archives: Windows

Repadmin commands to monitor your Windows 2008 Active Directory

Repadmin /replsummary /bysrc /sort:delta
Repadmin /showrepl /verbose /all /conn
repadmin /latency
repadmin /checkprop /intersite

and if you wanted to sync your AD …

repadmin /syncall /e

OpenVPN & Windows 7 dont play nice when no default GW is specified

Symptom : Openvpn network shows as “unidentified network” and is grayed out ( you cant click it to change the network location )

Solution : add these lines to your config :

# NLA issues
route-metric 512
route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0

restart your connection

make sure the openvpn network is either “home” or “work” network :

Fix “the installation source for this product is not available. Verify that the source exists and you can access it”

Use Windows Installer Cleanup Utility

OR
Reinstall windows installer

OR
Upgrade the windows installer

Fix word 2007 startup issues

If you are having issue with word when double clicking a document or launching an attachment , it could be a corrupt reg key.
open registry editor and rename the following value :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\version number\Word\Data

where version number is your office version ( 2007 = 12 ) .

you can also do this via command line ( as administrator )

reg delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data /f

this article has some more good info.

Vista Openvpn & Routing

If you have more then one subnet behind your vpn you need to add the following to your vpn.conf :

route-method exe

and make sure you run openvpn as an administrator