Show only specified Control Panel items GPO doesn’t apply on Windows 2008R2 Terminal Servers

Posted on August 24th, 2010 in Active Directory,GPO,Server 2008 by Gil Kreslavsky

 

In Previous version we used to work with CPL File Names  to define which one of control panel applets will be displayed.

In order to make it work Use Canonical names instead.
It should Look like that
Canonical Names of Control Panel Items

You can get the full list from here

Same user info on all Terminal Server Office clients

Posted on July 7th, 2010 in Microsoft,Office 2007,Server 2003,Server 2008,Terminal Server by Gil Kreslavsky

Terminal Server Office 2003/2007/2010 Installation issue

If you installed office in the same way you install it on your desktop.
Your user information will be replicated to all other users.

You may receive complaints that some excel or word files are been hold by your username or username you used to install Office.

You can fix it the following way.

Search for the user in registry
One of the keys under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurentVersion\Installer\UserData\ will have office instalation details.

Delete user RegOwner key Information.

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Continue searching the registry right-click and delete the Username and UserInitials with problematic username

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Additional information can be found here:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2001595

Now to install x64bit printer drivers on x86 32 bit server

Posted on June 27th, 2010 in Microsoft,Server 2003,Server 2008 by Gil Kreslavsky

When you try to to install x64 printer driver on 32bit server you may receive “selected driver must be installed remotely” error.

To solve this go to your x64 machine.

run and type \\32bit machine servername

In the list of shares open printers folder – in windows 7 or 2008 press on view remote printers
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Right click on empty place and select server properties.

Navigate to Drivers and press on Add.

Uncheck the x86 check box and select x64 one.
x64 printer install

After installation completes you can use the x64driver from your 32bit machine

Please note however that both x86 and x64 drivers must have the exact same name! “HP LaserJet 4200PCL 5″ and “HP LaserJet 4200PCL 5″  only if  they have the same name, they will appear automatically in additional drivers  under your printer’s sharing properties.

HyperTerminal in Windows 7 and Vista

Posted on March 23rd, 2010 in Microsoft,Vista,Windows 7 by Gil Kreslavsky

 

HyperTerminal is not included in Windows 7 and Vista.
I combined a list of alternative utilities that can be used instead.

First is PuTTy

PuTTy is a terminal program designed  not only for Serial port connections , it can be used to initiate SSH or Telnet sessions.

Download PuTTy from here

Second is Realterm

Realterm is a serial/tcpip terminal program which can be used for , controlling and debugging binary and other difficult data streams. It is far better for debugging comms than Hyperterminal. It has no support for dialing modems, BBS etc – that is what hyperterminal does.

Download Realterm from here

Third is TeraTerm

Tera Term (Pro) is a free software terminal emulator (communication program) for MS-Windows. It supports VT100 emulation, telnet connection, serial port connection, and so on.

Download TeraTerm from here

 

Alternatively you can use legacy windows XP hyperterm by downloading the following file and extract it in your system32 folder.

2010 DST updates Exchange Windows and Blackberry

Posted on March 17th, 2010 in Exchange 2007,Microsoft,Windows 7,Windows XP by Gil Kreslavsky

 

Microsoft released set of Daylight Saving updates back in December 2009.

Time Zone changes since last MS update

  • Argentina Standard Time:
    Removes DST for 2010 and later years.
  • Central Brazilian Standard Time:
    Updates dynamic DST table.
    Changes DST end date for 2010.
  • E. South America Standard Time:
    Updates dynamic DST table; Changes DST end date for 2010.
  • Egypt Standard Time:
    Changes the DST end date for 2009.
    Changes the TZI for 2010.
  • Georgian Standard Time:
    Changes the display name and time zone bias from UTC+3 to UTC+4.
  • Greenland Standard Time:
    Changes the TZI for 2010 for operating systems earlier than Windows Vista.
  • Jerusalem Standard Time:
    Changes the TZI for 2010 for operating systems earlier than Windows Vista.
  • Morocco Standard Time:
    Changes the TZI for 2010 for operating systems earlier than Windows Vista.
  • N. Central Asia Standard Time:
    Removes “Almaty” from the “(GMT+06:00) Almaty, Novosibirsk” time zone.
  • North Asia East Standard Time:
    Removes “Ulaan Bataar” from the “(GMT+08:00) Irkutsk, Ulaan Bataar” time zone.
  • Pakistan Standard Time:
    Changes the TZI for 2010 for operating systems earlier than Windows Vista.
  • Paraguay Standard Time:
    Changes the TZI for 2010 for operating systems earlier than Windows Vista.
  • Ulaanbaatar Standard Time:
    Creates the Ulaanbaatar Standard Time time zone with the display name of “(GMT+08:00) Ulaanbaatar”.
  • W. Australia Standard Time:
    Removes DST for 2010 and later years
  • Microsoft DST updates:

    Update for Windows 7 (KB976098)

    Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB976098)

    Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB976098)

    Update for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB976098)

    Update for Windows Server 2003 for Itanium-based Systems (KB976098)

    Update for Windows Server 2008 (KB976098)

    Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition (KB976098)

    Update for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems (KB976098)

    Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Edition (KB976098)

    Update for Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems (KB976098)

    Update for Windows Vista (KB976098)

    Update for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB976098)

    Update for Windows XP (KB976098)

    Update for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB976098)

     

    Blackberry DST updates:

    RIM released 2 updates for DST 2010 March

    http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB20676

    The meeting may have been updated or deleted since this message was sent

    Posted on March 11th, 2010 in BES Server,Black Berry,BlackBerry Device,Microsoft by Gil Kreslavsky

     

    You may see this error when you try to accept recurrence meeting ,which time was been updated.

    To resolve this issue:

    1. On the BES Server, click Start > Run and type regedit.
    2. Navigate to the following registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Options\Calendar.
    3. Right-click the Calendar folder and click New > DWORD Value.
    4. Type DisableMeetingRegeneration and press ENTER.
    5. Double-click the new key and type 1 in the Value data field of the Edit String screen.
    6. Click OK and close the Registry Editor.

    Go to your device and delete BIS CICAL service book

    To delete CICAL on BB device go to Settings–>Advanced Options –> Service Books
    Locate BIS CICAL and delete it.

    Than go to your BlackBerry Enterprise server , right click on user and pres “Resend Service Book”

    Restart your device and meeting accepts should start working.

    Disable Adobe auto update on terminal server

    Posted on March 10th, 2010 in Microsoft,Server 2008 by Gil Kreslavsky

     

    When you have limited size profile or limited user permission on Terminal Server.

    Even if Autoupdate is running user will be unable to install it and will get stuck in some temporary folder.

    To disable Adobe autoupdate you have 2 oprions.

    First is:Go to c:Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\UpdaterX (where X can be a number depending on you Adobe version)
    Rename the following files Adobe_Updater.exe and AdobeUpdaterInstallMgr.exe

    Second is:By deploying the following registry file via GPO

    Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\Updater]
    "bShowAutoUpdateConfDialog"=dword:00000000
    "bShowNotifDialog"=dword:00000000
    "iUpdateFrequency"=dword:00000000

    Change the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\7.0\Updater according to your Acrobat version

    TS 2008 Session Broker opens multiple sessions for single user

    Posted on March 9th, 2010 in Microsoft,Server 2008 by Gil Kreslavsky

     

    Scenario:

    User is not been reconnected to same Terminal Server session.

    The consequences can be duplicated sessions, profile location lose, locked files on storage and more.
    After few hours I found that Microsoft have A HotFix that addresses the issue

    KB article is: KB977541

    Windows 7 Search in Start Menu bar is broken

    Posted on March 7th, 2010 in Microsoft,Server 2008,Windows 7 by Gil Kreslavsky

     

    I got this after installing some update, can’t say exactly which.
    The problem symptom is that when you type anything in search bar it looks like that
    Search programs and files

    To solve it.

    Go to Run> type regedit.exe

    Navigate to :HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\FolderTypes\{EF87B4CB-F2CE-4785-8658-4CA6C63E38C6}\TopViews\

    You will see a key named {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
    Just rename it to anything else like {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}.Orig

    After you rename the key , start Task manager and kill the explorer.exe process

    Run the process again from file>New Task (Run..)

    File new task Run

    Type in bar explorer.exe

    And Walla!

    It works!

    Microsoft published a hotfix that addresses the issue in Windows 7 and 2008R2

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977380

    Outlook 2007 free/busy works slow or could not be retrieved

    Posted on January 19th, 2010 in Exchange 2007,Outlook 2007 by Gil Kreslavsky

     

    During migration from Exchange 2003 to 2007 we had the problem with Outlook 2007 client free busy response was slow , about 10 seconds to load .

    To fix it .
    Open registry editor on your Desktop(where outlook is installed)

    Navigate to the following path : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\Calendar
    Create new DWORD value named UseLegacyFB and set value to 1

    Note:
    0 or not set will use default outlook settings
    1 will use Public Folder based Free/Busy information

     

    Read KB958934 to get more information.

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