This operation has been restricted due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.

Today when I started my day in office, I found that some applications we not working as they used to be. And when tried to start them, I got an error dialog box with a message "This operation has been restricted due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.". It seems that IT dept has made some restrictions for applications.

Command Prompt: searching port status and killing a process

Today, while working with Glassfish server, I encounted a weird issue that I restarted Glassfish server but Glassfish failed to start and the most annoying thing was, I found nothing in it's logs. Tried to restart Glassfish from windows service several time but all in vain.
Then I tried to check all the ports used in Glassfish. Ports used by Glassfish can be checked from domain.xml file. Search "http-listner" and make a list of ports.

Removing James as windows service

In previous post, you checked how to configure James as windows service but there may be a situation when you have to remove James as Windows service. To remove James service or any other service, follow below mentioned steps:

Managing Old logs on server using Windows batch script

Most of the time system administrators are dealing with old log files like backing up the old logs manually and removing the original logs. To reduce their headache, here we have a small script, which provides flexibility to manage those old logs in very handy manner. Administrators just need to set the variables in the script as per there requirement and let the script do the magic.

About the script: This script takes the backup of all the log files older then specified number of days and after backup, it automatically deletes the original files and spare the disk space. 
A job can be schedules either on daily or weekly basis to execute this script and manage old log files on the server.

Grant Users Access to your Outlook Calendar

Outlook Calendar -  a very powerful tool to manage your emails, appointments, meetings, calendars, notes, contacts etc. Everyone has used the Outlook product of Microsoft, which has really made our lives easy. We all know that we can schedule our appointments and send meeting invitations in Outlook calendar but today we are going to reveal another trick to grant user access to our calendar so that other person (having permission) can edit our calendar. You must open Microsoft Outlook to perform the steps below:

Change system Password using Command Prompt

We can change the system password using command prompt. To change the password, you must be logged in as administrator and run "net user" command to change the password of a user.

    net user user_name new_password

Example:

    net user gaurav saini