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When users were sending emails to a contact group, it would bounce immediately with the following error message:

From: System Administrator
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 3:14 PM
Subject: Undeliverable: Email subject

'Recipient 2' on 8/14/2017 3:14 PM
This message could not be sent. Try sending the message again later, or contact your network administrator. The client operation failed. Error is [0x80004005-0x80004005-0x000501].

The issue was the related to throttling settings, and the distribution list was over the 24-hour limit.

To fix the issue, you can create and apply a new throttling policy to the affected mailboxes:


New-ThrottlingPolicy -Name policyname -RecipientRateLimit Unlimited
Set-Mailbox -Identity username -ThrottlingPolicy policyname

Replace ‘username’, ‘policyname’, and ‘Unlimited’ with the desired names and values.

I needed to grant permissions to a non-administrative domain user to be able to start and stop services. The subinacl command can be used to grant these permissions:

subinacl /service \\ComputerName\ServiceName /grant=[Domain\]Username[=Access]

Here are the available ‘Access’ parameters:


F : Full Control
R : Generic Read
W : Generic Write
X : Generic eXecute
L : Read controL
Q : Query Service Configuration
S : Query Service Status
E : Enumerate Dependent Services
C : Service Change Configuration
T : Start Service
O : Stop Service
P : Pause/Continue Service
I : Interrogate Service
U : Service User-Defined Control Comma

If you want to filter by computer model, first you’ll need to get the computer model name by running the ‘wmic‘ command in a DOS prompt, and then typing: ‘CSProduct Get Name‘. That should return something similar to this:


C:\Users\seppler>wmic
wmic:root\cli>CSProduct Get Name
Name
HP EliteDesk 800 G1 USDT


Then, you’ll want to add a conditional Inject Drivers command, with the condition being a WMI query for:

SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE Model LIKE "%EliteDesk 800 G1%"

Replace the “EliteDesk 800 G1” string with whatever model you want to match. The percents on each side are a typical SQL wildcard, which is why I don’t have to include ‘HP’ or ‘USDT’.

When deploying a Windows 7 64-bit image from our deployment server (using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, or MDT), we would run into an error message after the image had been applied to a workstation:

Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file [C:\windows\Panther\unattend.xml] for pass [specialize]. A component or setting specified in the answer file does not exist

It turned out that Internet Explorer 10 had been installed. To fix the issue, you need to remove the IEWelcomeMsg entry from the answer file (either by editing unattend.xml manually on the server for the task sequence, or using Windows System Image Manager (WSIM).

This post clued me into the issue.

I ran into an issue recently where any application would crash when printing to a network printer. Our environment is unique in that we are printing to a Windows print server (using Guest privileges), but users on the network are logging in using the Novell client.

The crash would not happen with generic Microsoft drivers that came with Windows XP, but it would happen with any HP-branded drivers. Our first workaround was just to use PCL or PostScript drivers that closely matched the printer, and hope for the best.

In the end, we found out that when printing with the HP drivers, it would write to a file in the Windows directory called hpmnwun.ini. The contents it would write were:


[NWUSERNAME]
NOVELL=1
NWUSERNAME=testuser


Fixing the issue was a two step process:

1: Erase the contents of the file
2: Change the NTFS Permissions of the file to make it read-only by all users (even Administrators)

I think this forces the HP drivers to print to the printer in the standard Windows printer sharing way. When the HP drivers detect the Novell client installed, it writes the NWUSERNAME info to the file and must try to print in an ‘NDPS friendly’ way, which causes the application to crash when printing to a standard Windows shared printer and not a NDPS printer.

With Windows XP, you can define custom paper sizes (such as 3×5 cards) by doing the following:

Start -> Printers and Faxes -> File -> Server Properties

In this dialog, you can define a 3×5 card. The problem is, with the LQ-590 and LQ-300 drivers, these paper sizes do not show up as options when you try and print. Any paper size below 4 inches in height will disappear from your printing options.

To get around this, install the LQ-570 driver (the one that is built into Windows XP). This driver will let you use a 3×5 sized form.