How do you get the Plesk administrator password in Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>cd %plesk_bin% C:\SWSoft\Plesk\admin\bin>plesksrvclient -get How do you remove a service listed in the services if it no longer exists? C:\>sc delete MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS [SC] DeleteService SUCCESS This was particularily useful when trying to re-install/upgrade SQL Express.
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Delete service / get plesk password
May 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Operating System · Windows
Adding a user to Windows via command line
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Useful if you need access to a Windows Virtuozzo virtual environments RDP. net user YOURUSER YOURPASS /ADD net localgroup Administrators YOURUSER /ADD
Tags: Operating System · Windows
Removing the MBR/partition information
May 5th, 2008 · No Comments
Note: By running any of the following commands you may cause your system to become un-bootable. Best make backups of the MBR prior to trying anything within. Use at your own discretion. URLs: http://linuxgazette.net/issue63/okopnik.html http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record Ben Okopnik wrote a good article on the linux gazette site called “Clearing out the Master Boot Record”. I [...]
Tags: Linux · Operating System · Windows
SQL Express
January 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Had to migrate a site from a remote server onto a Windows virtual server (Virtuozzo) running Plesk. The site had a database running on SQL Server 2005, but, by default Windows Plesk virtual servers only run MSDE. The database also had stored procedures, which, MSDE doesn’t support. So, needed to install SQL Express 2005. I [...]