Archive for the Operating Systems Category

I like Windows 7. It’s so much faster than Vista and improved functionality over Windows XP.
I even like the libraries functionality of being up to include various folders in a frequently accessed section.
One problem with libraries in is using on a domain you are required to enable off-line folders and cache all of the files [...]

Windows 2003 terminal server
Service pack 2
Internet explorer 7 or 8

In Internet Explorer in Tools/Security if you click on any of the zones of the slider was greyed out and could not be adjusted.
The site is running with a Windows SBS 2003 active directory controller on a separate server. We already had one Windows 2003 terminal [...]

If you need to set send as permissions for a distribution group, you may find that when you go to the properties for the group you are missing the required security tab

In order to see the security group tab you need to enable Advanced Features from the view menu in active directory

Now when you go [...]

In Network and Sharing Center click “Change adapter settings” on the left. From there you can create a VPN shortcut on your desktop.

Short method:

Login as the root user – I use putty for windows to connect to the linux server from my desktop
after logging in enter ls – you may have a firewall script to edit the iptables. For this example we have one called firewall.local
Copy the file using cp firewall.local firewall.todaysdate to you have a copy [...]

Often you may need to remotely connect to a network workstion, but by default remote desktop is not enabled. Other than having an administrative user enable it on the workstation itself, here is a way to do it remotely.

Run Regedit
Select File | Connect Network Registry
Enter the name of the remote computer and select Check Names
Go [...]

If Microsoft have pushed you into using desktop search as part of running office 2007 instead of search companion and you work on a network, you will have rapidly discovered how useless and time wasting it is.
If you have connections to a number of network drives and don’t want to have the index service chugging [...]

When you try and use Remote support or access Help and support, you will get an error message saying that “Help and Support” service is not installed.
To Resolve this issue, do the following:
Go to the C:\Windows\pchealth\helpctr\binaries folder to verify if the
HelpSvc.exe file is missing.
If the file exists in the folder, I would like to recommend [...]

If you are getting event log ID
Event Type: Error
Event Source: DCOM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 10016
Date:  13/08/2009
Time:  6:39:56 AM
User:  domain\Username
Computer: TS
Description:
The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID
{0C0A3666-30C9-11D0-8F20-00805F2CD064}
 to the user domain\Username SID (S-1-5-21-2372940863-4262034387-123456789-1151).  This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.
The fix
In registry editor go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{0C0A3666-30C9-11D0-8F20-00805F2CD064}
Confirm it is the the [...]

To setup a firewall rule to enable access through ISA to internal servers, you need to map different external ports to the interal port 3389.
In this example an internal system is on 192.168.10, and you want to RDP on port 3390 to this server.
Right-click firewall policy and select new – server publishing rule
Give it a [...]