The IT stuff

Error: Your computer’s settings do not allow connection to this remote computer

2010-03-12T02:46:00.000-08:00

Hi, Just want to share some information which might be useful for some of you. I was playing with a Terminal Services Server (Windows 2008) in a test environment; in particular I was trying different things with TS Web Access and RemoteApps. I have published MS Outlook as a Remote Application available through the TS Web Access, but every time when I was trying to access MS Outlook from the TS

Customizing TS Web Access

2010-03-04T05:35:00.000-08:00

Hi,Recently I have seen several questions on the Microsoft Forums regarding customizing TS Web Access page. One of the things that people want to know is how to hardcode Terminal Services Server’s IP address into the “Connect to:” field on the TS Web Access page. Another question is how to set the default Remote Desktop Size on the TS Web Access page.How to hardcode Terminal Server’s IP address

Filtering Group Policy from applying (Windows Server 2008)

2010-02-10T01:14:00.001-08:00

Hi,In this post I would like to refresh my previous post about filtering group policy from applying. The first post was showing the steps based on Windows Server 2003, now I want the show the same thing but for Windows Server 2008. If you want to know what filtering is used for, please have a look at my previous article. Here I will be showing the particular steps without a lot of explanations.1)

Terminal Services Licensing Servers.

2010-02-04T02:30:00.000-08:00

Hi, Today I want to share with you some “easy to understand” pictures about Terminal Services Licensing. In particular I will show you which version of Terminal Services Licensing Server can issue licenses to which version of Terminal Services Server.Terminal Services Licensing Server based on Windows Server 2003/2003 R2 operating systems.

Installing Terminal Services Server, the main things you need to know.

2010-01-12T07:06:00.000-08:00

Hi,Recently I have met a lot of questions about implementing Terminal Services in the organizations. In most of the cases people know the main steps and procedures, but at the same time loads of small things are missing, which lead to the wrong configuration and different problems.I want to summarize all the steps and create a basic guide for beginners about the Terminal services. Let us call it

XP mode on Windows 7 Home Premium.

2010-01-07T08:21:00.000-08:00

Those of you who started using Windows 7, have probably noticed that sometimes you cannot run some application which you could run in Windows XP or Vista. If you are lucky enough to have Windows 7 Professional or Windows 7 Ultimate, you can download such as called “XP mode” and run those applications in XP mode, this resolves all compatibility issues (you can download the XP mode here).But those

Computer literally says no :-)

2009-12-03T03:31:00.000-08:00

Hi,Just a bit of IT humour.I was trying to perform some operation and I got this message from the server.Computer is UNWILLING :-)Sounds like it can perform the request, it just does not want to :-DSomething like "Computer says no" literally

Exchange 2010 PrepareSchema error.

2009-12-03T01:33:00.000-08:00

Hi,Just want to share some of my experience installing Exchange 2010.I was preparing the domain for Exchange 2010 and was trying to run the schema update (setup /PrepareSchema). But every time I was trying to run it I was getting the following error Copying Setup Files . 5%An error occured while copying file D:\\Setup\ServerRoles\Common\LPSetupUI.exe.The

Windows 7 the N and E version

2009-11-26T01:24:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody,Just want to share a small interesting thing about Windows 7. Few days ago I bought a new laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium N. I was wondering what “N” stands for, but did not have a chance to Google and read the explanation.So, I installed all applications which I needed, including recent video codecs and Windows Media Player Classic. After that I have tried to run some *.wmv files

Office 2007 Ultimate and Windows 7 Home Premium, special offer for the UK students

2009-10-15T14:04:00.000-07:00

Hi,Today I have received a TechNet Newsletter from Microsoft UK and here is the good news for students. If you have a valid e-mail address ending with ac.uk you are eligible for a special offer on Office 2007 Ultimate and Windows 7 Home Premium. Ready to hear the prices? :-) Office 2007 Ultimate is £38.95 and Windows 7 Home Premium is £30. Believe me this is a bargain, these prices are several

ESX 4.0.0 build-164009 and HP ProLiant DL380 G6

2009-09-29T02:45:00.000-07:00

Hello people,Here is a quick one. Yesterday I installed VSphere ESX 4.0 build-164009 on the HP ProLiant DL380 G6 server. After installing ESX I tried to install Windows 2008 Standard R2 x64 as a guest machine, but the installation could not see the hard drives. As usual I tried to download RAID controller drivers and point the installation to those drivers, but still no luck. I tried different

Filtering Group Policy from Applying (Windows Server 2003)

2009-09-28T09:00:00.000-07:00

Hi,Here is a small post about filtering a Group Policy from applying to some users. I have recently met several engineers confused by the Group Policies applied to the Terminal Services.Here is the scenario:- You create an OU for your Terminal Server- You put your Terminal Server into that OU- You create and apply a Group Policy with enabled Loopback processing which applies some restrictions,

Disable BEEPS during the terminal session.

2009-08-14T10:46:00.001-07:00

Hi everybody,Yesterday, I had a complaint from a client about a weird sound coming out of the computer during a terminal session. I was a bit surprised as the sound redirection was disabled by the group policy. I have connected to that Terminal Server and found out that it was the BEEP service sound. For example when you receive an e-mail, Outlook tries to notify you, but as the sound was turned

Loopback processing of Group Policy, explained.

2009-07-26T03:15:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,Today I want to write a few words about Loopback processing of Group Policy. When you deal with this setting for the first time it may be a little bit confusing. You can find explanations of this policy setting on the internet, but in my case I will try to explain everything in simple words.As we know group policy has two main configurations, user and computer. Accordingly, the computer

Installing program as an ordinary user, or how to give users an ability to install programs.

2009-07-23T04:38:00.001-07:00

Hi,Recently I came across a task where I had to give users an ability to install and uninstall programs but without giving them administrative rights. Probably you can create some fancy scripts or buy a piece of software which can do this, but I found a simple and free solution :-)Here are the steps.1) Create a .bat file which will have only one line:appwiz.cplCall this bat file 1.bat and place

Preparing XP computer as a dedicated Terminal Services client. (making a thin client from your old XP based computer)

2009-07-16T08:07:00.001-07:00

Hi,Recently one of my clients asked me to prepare his old PCs with Windows XP operating system for use with the terminal services. For the users the whole process, of connecting to the Terminal Services Server, had to be as simple and seamless as possible.The final result that I achieved was following: Users were turning on their PC’s and after booting they saw a Terminal Session Screen with a

Windows 7 with no Internet Browser.

2009-07-11T06:35:00.000-07:00

Hi,This post is not about IT tips, but about the world of IT in general. Just an interesting issue that came to my mind :-)Most of you have already heard and those who have not, here is the news, in the European Union Windows 7 will be released without any internet browser. Do not panic, it just means that a browser will not be built into the system but people can easily download and install any

DataStream Advance crashes Excel 2007

2009-07-10T08:32:00.000-07:00

Hi,Today I had an issue with the application called DataStream Advance 4.0 by Thomson. It is a financial application used for some real time queries of the financial data.So here is the situation, one of the clients installed this application on his PC and added the Advance add-in into his Excel 2007. After this, his Excel started crashing on exit, I mean whenever he was trying to close Excel

System Restore

2009-07-09T06:25:00.000-07:00

Quite often I hear from people that something went wrong after they did some harmless operation, i.e installed an updated driver for a hardware, installed a new application or a new hardware. In other words did some manipulation which lead to the system instability. It happens, because nothing and nobody is perfect. And please do not start blaming Windows, according to my experience in 90% of the

IT stuff, the beginning :-)

2009-07-08T08:42:00.000-07:00