Intergraph Smart3D application fails to launch saved Session file

Error: ————————— CommonAppApplicationContext ————————— Cannot open session file.Either the ship model database does not exist or your registry settings are pointing to a site other than the site pointed to by the session file. Run Modify Database and Schema Location to modify your registry settings. ————————— OK   —————————   Cause: This issue happens when you copy over a Session file created on one server to other server even when you have the Session File names, Ships Names and Workspaces with same names/properties FIX: Create new Session File from scratch on the other/new server.  If you would like to have your […]

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Disabling/Hiding/Restricting “Administrative Tools” from Start Menu for non-admin domain users

A quick trick: is to restrict access to non-admin users to below path that way they don’t get it working.  C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuProgramsAdministrative Tools   Otherwise, the two options are to create a registry key or Group Policy Preference setting. Registry: SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced StartMenuAdminTools: Decimal 0 < p> Group Policy User Preference Setting: < p>

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Using Windiff with a regular expression exclusion list

Often when you compare folders, its often possible you see a list of files which you are not looking for.  Thus it’s often requires us to exclude a list of files (by filenames, file extension, etc) which we don’t want to check about. Say I want to exclude a list of files by its extension.  The extension list is bin.bak, bin, sfsfmz, sfspmz.  You can simply have these files excluded by creating a Mark pattern with regular expression  “[bin.bak,bin,sfsfmz,sfspmz]$” and then choose “Hide marked Files”  

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