Forgot password for VMWare Workstation instance (Windows Server 2003)

Vitendy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:55:28 GMT

So what happens when you change your ONLY admin password for one of your critical VMware images at 2am during a caffeine induced and chocolate supported coding nights? And then forget it?

Enter:CD-konboot-v1.1-2in1 [site] [ISO]

A. Download the CD-ISO

B. Assign the ISO as a CD ROM to the troubled VMWare instance, boot.

C. Hit ESC during Vmware boot, choose to boot from CD

D. Let it do its thing

E. Login with administrator user -- password can be anything -- but once logged in reset the administrator account password

Continue coding.

Plesk windows command line tool

Vitaly — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:34:04 GMT

What happens when your SmarterMail Enterprise server gets out of sync with Plesk? Among other things, Plesk gets fussy. I swear, just a few days ago I could add and remove mailboxes just fine. Today I spend some time figuring out how to make Plesk and SmarterMail play nice again.

mchk.exe --domain --domain-name=mydomain.com

It's a Plesk command line tool that makes Plesk see SmarterMail at a "special" level. Yes, it works. It doesn't sync up mail accounts, but I just needed to delete the domain anyway. This did the trick.

The tool itself has a bite, be careful with it.

http://download1.swsoft.com/Plesk/Plesk7.5/Windows/Docs/plesk-7.5-win-advanced-features-manual/9781.htm

http://www.swsoft.com/

http://www.smartertools.com/ -- corporate e-mail -- customizable, stables, I love it!

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Forgot password for VMWare Workstation instance (Windows Server 2003)

Plesk windows command line tool