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 HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurentVersionInstallerUserData will have office instalation details.

Delete user RegOwner key Information.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Error c1038a21 appears when you try to view properties of public folder system folder – Schedule + free busy or offline address book folder

Microsoft have a article on how to fix it , but in there guide they recommend usage of Information Store Viewer (MDBVu32).

I prefer to use PFDAVAdmin that can be downloaded from here it is much easier .

1. Run PFDAVAdmin
2. Press on file>connect
3. Fill your DC settings like on screenshot bellow (don’t forget to select public folders)
   
4. Navigate to problematic folder – schedule free busy for example
   
5. Right click on it and chose “property editor”
   
6. Select PRF_PF_PROXY from property dropdown
   mark clear and press execute.
   

That’s it, that should fix the problem.

If you’re planning reinstall of your Windows VistaXPServer 200020032008  you’ll need to locate your copy of your product installation key.

An easy way is to use Product Key Viewer utility to find forgotten Windows Office or SQL Product Keys.

To move windows group to other domain download ADMT Tool

1. Install Active Directory Migration Tool
2. Open the ADMT MMC snap-in it is located in Administrative Tools.
3. Chose source and destination domains and click Next.
4. On the Group Selection screen, chose the group that you want to migrate and click Next.
5. On the next screen, select Browse and locate the desired OU.
6. On the Group Options screen, select one or more of the following and click Next:

   Update user rights: Copies any user rights that are assigned in the source domain to the target domain.

   Copy group members:Specifies whether the user objects that belong to the group should be migrated along with the group.

   Adds the security identifiers (SIDs) of the migrated group accounts in the source domain to the SID history of the new group in the target domain.

• On the Naming Conflicts screen, select whether you want to migrate group objects that conflict with objects in the target domain and click Next.
• Follow the remainder of the wizard to complete the migration.

To clear user local profile via registry :

1. Press on Start > Run >Regedit
2. Navigate to the following registry key :“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionProfileList”
3. Under ProfileList navigate to  binary key’s like this :S-1-5-21-3656904587-1668747452-4095529-500
4. On the right side under  ProfileImagePath you’’ll see the username and profile path.
5. Chose the one with the desired user and delete the long reg key like :“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionProfileList”

Note:The following method works on all of these operation systems:Windows 2000/XP/2003/2008 and Windows 7.

If you want to redirect domain user folders to NTFS or Storage share, you need to set the permissions like in the list bellow:

Creator Owner => Full Control on “Subfolders and Files Only”

Security group of users needing to put data on share => List Folder/Read Data, Create Folders/Append Data  on “This Folder Only”

System =>  Full Control, on “This Folder, Subfolders and Files”

In addition you can add Domain Admins security group to have permissions on user folders:

• Open Group Policy Management
• Navigate to Computer Configuration>Administrative Templates>System>User Profiles
• Set “Add the Administrator security group to the roaming user profile share” to enabled

If you Windows Desktop icon is disappeared , there is a quick way to restore it.
Follow the steps bellow:

• Open Notepad
• Paste the text bellow

[Shell] Command=2 IconFile=explorer.exe,3 [Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop

• Save the file as Desktop.scf and drag it to your Quick Launch bar

Note: If you can’t place it you Quick Launch bar may be locked.
To unlock it :Right click on it , and remove selection from “Lock The Task Bar”

Microsoft has released Windows Server 2008 evaluation VHD (Virtual Hard Drive) images for Hyper-V which as of now is available for download from Microsoft  Download Center.
The images are perfect for creating testing environment and trying new versions

• Windows Server 2008 Standard Ed. x86 (full install)
• Windows Server 2008 Standard Ed. x64 (full install)
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Ed. x86 (full install)
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Ed. x64 (full install)
• Windows Server 2008 Standard Ed. x86 (core install)
• Windows Server 2008 Standard Ed. x64 (core install)
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Ed. x86 (core install)
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Ed. x64 (core install)
• Exchange Server 2007 SP1
• Windows Server 2003 R2
• System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R2
• Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Forefront codename "Stirling"
• System Center Essentials 2007 SP1
• Windows Vista

For more resent list of available preconfigured VHD’s visit http://www.microsoft.com/vhd

list of available commands for service management in Windows

• Net pause : Pauses service
  Usage : net pause servicename
• Net continue : Continues a service that has been suspended by net pause
  Usage : net continue servername
• Net stop : Stops running service
  Usage : net stop service name
• Net start : Start stopped service
  Usage : net start servicename
• Sc:A command line program used for communicating with the
  Service Control Manager and services. Usually used in scripting
  Usage : type sc in command prompt to see command reference
• Tasklist : Displays list of running tasks
  Usage:type tasklist in command prompt

Note: You can find the service name in Control Panel, Services.
Or by running services.msc command
To Open Command Prompt : type in run cmd