You may experience such error while opening “Failover Cluster management console” It usually happens when server service is in stoped state. In order to fix it open service management console and start the server service Read more

  Some times we need to use PS script to send email, script can be used in Task Scheduler or any other program BatchFile to run script: Create *.bat file C:WindowsSystem32WindowsPowerShellv1.0powershell.exe -PSConsoleFile "C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchange Serverbinexshell.psc1" -noexit -command ". C:scriptslocationscriptname.ps1"   PS Script to send mail: Create  .ps1 file $filename = “c:filelocationHtmlFIleyouwant torecieve.html” $smtpServer = “SMTP Read more

  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 You can get the full list from here Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

  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 FilesCommon FilesAdobeUpdaterX (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 Read more

 

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

  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 To solve it. Go to Run> type regedit.exe Navigate to :HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurre ntVersionExplorerFolderTypes{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 Read more

In Vista Windows 2008  or Windows 7 when  you right-click the network icon in the navigation area, but it does not take you directly to the Network Connections properties as we are used to in Windows XP 2000 or 2003 . You can access Network Connections management menu by running ncpa.cpl from run menu or you can create a shortcut that will access those menu by key combination. To create ncpa.cpl shortcut Right-click on the desktop Click: New>Shortcut Type the location Read more

  If “Install virtual machine guest service installation” is unavailable and grayed out, don’t panic. Just shut down the guest machine and it will become available. It is not a bug, it is by design. Read more