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 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

Terminal services 2008 easy printing is a new feature announced in windows 2008 server. It enables remote users to print from a Terminal Services session to the local connected printers without the need to install drivers on the Terminal Server. User will see the full printer properties of the local printer in the session and have access to all printer functionality. The Easy Print universal driver acts as a proxy and redirects all User Prints to local device To use the Terminal Services Easy Print Read more

When user is trying to save attachment from outlook or save word/excell file usualy hi is directly redirected to his "My Documents"  folder set in his profile. When you work on Terminal server and want to restrict C: drive access it becomes a problem . User receives multiple errors when he try's to save file or email attachment. To change default save location for office applications via GPO you first must download office 2007 GPO ADM to your Domain Controler . Extract files to a local folder. Go Read more

Disable sound in RDP not working in Windows Terminal Services OK, the same bug was in Windows 2003sp1 terminal server, MS fixed it in SP 2. The problem is that even after you disable sound redirection via GPO you still got beeps on error messages. I found a way to fix it. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK. Locate and edit  the following registry subkey:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControlTerminal Server On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Read more

Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 included a new feature, RDP over SSL. This feature will allow you to use TLS authentication and encryption with your RDP connections using SelfSSL to create the SSL certificate. It still uses RDP and TCP port 3389 so your firewall rules should not need to be modified. Before we get started there are a few pre-requisites on both the server side and client side that need to be met first. Server-side - The Terminal Server must run 2003 SP1 - The Terminal Server must Read more