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 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

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareAdobeAcrobat Reader9.0Updater]
"bShowAutoUpdateConfDialog"=dword:00000000
"bShowNotifDialog"=dword:00000000
"iUpdateFrequency"=dword:00000000

Change the [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareAdobeAcrobat Reader7.0Updater according to your Acrobat version

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 feature in Terminal Services on Windows Server 2008, remote clients must run RDP (RDC) 6.1 client and have.NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1 installed. Both included with Windows Server 2008 and will be available for download for Windows Vista.

For full guide on how to use Terminal Services 2008 Easy print feature follow MS tech net article here

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 to group policy by running gpo.msc from run.
• Navigate to User Configuration Administrative Templates.
• Pres Right Click on Administrative Templates and chose “Add/Remove templates”
• Press on “Add” and navigate to localy extracted ADM file.
• Now you should see Office 2007 settings in GPO.

To change default save location for for Excell 2007

• Navigate to Microsoft Office Excell 2007Excell OptionsSave
• On the right menu locate “Default file location” change setting to enabled and insert your save path.

To change default save location for for Power Point 2007

• Navigate to Microsoft Power Point 2007Power PointOptionsSave
• On the right menu locate “Default file location” change setting to enabled and insert your save path.

To change default save location for for Project 2007

• Navigate to Microsoft Power Project 2007Tools | OptionsSaveFile Locations
• On the right menu locate “Projects and User Templates ” change setting to enabled and insert your save path.

To change default save location for for Word 2007

• Navigate to Microsoft Word 2007Word OptionsAdvancedFile Locations
• On the right menu locate “Default file location ” change setting to enabled and insert your save path.

Outlook 2007 is little bit tricky you can’t set options via Outlook GPO , you can do that via registry or by changing default system “save in” location.

To change Outlook 2003/2007  save path via registry

• Follow Microsoft Article KB:823131

To change default system “save in” location.

• In group policy go to User Configuration Administrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsWindows Explorer
  Common Open File Dialog
• Click on “Items displayed in Places Bar”
• Add your Save Location. for example servernamesharename ( It can be mounted I: folder)
  
  

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 Value.
• Type DisableBeep, and then press ENTER.
• Right-click DisableBeep, and then click Modify.
• In the Value data box, type 1, and then click OK
• Quit Registry Editor.
• Click Start, click Run, type services.msc and hit enter button.
• Locate Terminal Services service and press restart (That will drop all users connected to TS server)
• Reconnect to terminal server

Note You can disable the MessageBeep function by changing the value to 1 to enable back change to 0.