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Antivirus Exclusions for Micrfosoft Windows and other products
Setting up Windows Server 2012 RADIUS and Sonicwall NSA – error “RADIUS communication error”
When trying to setup Windows server 2012 RADIUS server – NPS to work with Sonicwall NSA appliance you will receive and error “RADIUS communication error” when testing RADIUS settings in Sonicwall NSA appliance. Do not use the generated key from Server 2012 interface. It is too long for the Sonicwall management to accept it. I only used first 15 characters of the key and deleted the rest.
Windows Account Lockout and Management Tools – locked out accounts, password age
Windows 7 Profile Type corrupted or the type is BACKUP
How to find GUID From MSI File
Typically (though not universally) if a piece of software uses MSI-based installation the GUID can be found in the Uninstall entry. It will usually either be the key name or will appear in the UninstallString and/or UninstallPath value. Sometimes life is easy and there is a ProductGuid value.
Uninstall entries can be found here:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
On a 64-bit version of Windows there are two such keys, one for 64-bit software and a second for 32-bit software:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall