If Desktop Icon Disappeared/Deleted.

If Desktop Icon Disappeared/Deleted. Follow the below steps to restore it.

Open Notepad

Paste the text bellow

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop

Save the file as Desktop.scf and drag it to your Quick Launch bar.

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Script to check the Exchange database size

Follow the below link for Script:

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=5708

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How to Add Static route in Windows 2003

Q) To display the entire contents of the IP routing table, type:

A) route print

Q) To add a default route with the default gateway address of 192.168.1.1, type:

A) route add 0.0.0.0 mask 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1

Q) To delete the route to the destination 10.101.0.0 with the subnet mask of 255.255.0.0, type:

A) route delete 10.101.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0

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You can force replication between DCs

-> Start Active Directory Sites and Services.
-> Expand the Sites.
-> Expand the site that contains the DCs. (The default site Default-First-Site-Name might be the only site.)
-> Expand the servers.
-> Select the server you want to replicate to, and expand the server.
-> Double-click NTDS Settings for the server.
-> Right-click the server you want to replicate from.
-> Select Replicate Now from the context menu.
or
use the below command line tools for force repliction.
1) Repadmin 2)Replmon

GPUPDATE /force will cause policies to be re-applied/updated but some policies can only be applied fully at login and/or startup.

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Is it ok to delete files in Compress old files in Disk cleanup tool?

Compress Old Files doesn't delete any files from the drive. It compresses files that Windows hasn't accessed for a specified period of time. The files are still available, but there will be a slight increase in access times because the files will be decompressed the next time they are accessed. Note that when Compress Old Files is highlighted an Options button appears. Clicking it will allow you to set the number of days to wait before an unaccessed file is compressed.

So, if you delete the compressed files, you will lose data. Is it okay to do so? Well that is up to you and whether or not that data is important to you.

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How to retrieve the total number of sessions on my Terminal Server?

Type one of the following commands in a command window:

query session /counter

or

query user find "rdp-tcp#" find /c " Active "

If you are running Windows 2003 on your TS, you can also use the following script

(save it as SessionCount.vbs):

Set obji = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!Win32_Service='TermService'")
wscript.echo "Total sessions: " & obji.TotalSessions
wscript.echo "Disconnected sessions: " & obji.DisconnectedSessions

Run the script from a command prompt with:
cscript SessionCount.vbs

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How to kill remote disconnected sessions?

use a command line tools:

To list all sessions on a server: qwinsta /SERVER:servername

To end a session:

rwinsta {sessionname sessionid} /SERVER:servername

sessionname : Identifies the session with name sessionname.
sessionid: Identifies the session with ID sessionid.
SERVER: servername The server containing the session

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