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This is a short guide to configuring backups of Oracle 12c using Veritas Backup Exec 16. 1.        Establish trust with Oracle Database server within Backup Exec console and ensure agent is installed. 2.         Create a login to the database for backup purposes in Oracl e; Open up a command prompt and run the following command – Sqlplus / nolog Log in with your database admin account as sysdba Connect myusername / mypassword@databasename as sysdba CREATE USER BACKUP IDENTIFIED BY MYPASSWORD; GRANT UNLIMITED TABLESPACE TO BACKUP; GRANT AQ_ADMINISTRATOR_ROLE TO BACKUP; GRANT DBA TO BACKUP; GRANT CONNECT TO BACKUP; ALTER USER BACKUP DEFAULT ROLE ALL; ALTER USER BACKUP DEFAULT TABLESPACE SYSTEM; 3.        Within the Local Users and Groups section of Computer Management on the Oracle database server, add the backup servers windows domain administrator account to the following groups – a.        ORA_OraDB12Home1_SYSBACKUP b.    

When trying to open documents using the file converter in Excel 2003 SP3 on Server 2008 R2, the following message is displayed "microsoft excel is waiting for another application to complete an ole action 2003" or "the converter failed to open the file". The following KB article allows this feature to work. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/980210  - KB Article http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/6/2/A624F8C9-B51E-4CC6-A0AC-ACB684E2E265/office-kb980210-fullfile-x86-glb.exe  - Direct Download

The Microsoft NPS console fails to launch. The error shown is - FX:{6630f2d7-bd52-4072-bfa7-863f3d0c5da0} NPS This was due to an issue with WMI. Running the following in Command Prompt as an Administrator resolved my issue. cd C:\Windows\System32\wbem\AutoRecover for /f %s in ('dir /b *.mof *.mfl') do mofcomp %s

I had an issue recently where the client machine could not connect to any network resources. We noticed that the user had many TAP-Windows Adapters for VPN (OpenVPN). Some research suggests it occurs due to Microsoft products activating against a KMS server. Anyway, I have created a simple vbs (wsh) script which removes the excess devices in a safely manner. All you might need to change is the location of tapinstall.exe as it might be deployed with your VPN application. I have actually deployed the script by placing it in the netlogon share and using a GPO to create a scheduled task which executes the script on a weekly basis. I used a WMI filter and only targeted laptops.  Here is the script. Its not perfect, but I think it does a good job. Dim Shell,path,tempPath,tapInstPath32,tapInstPath64,objFSO Set Shell = CreateObject ("Wscript.Shell") Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") strComputer = "." count = 0 tapInstPath32 = &q