Archive for the Windows 2003 Category

To remote desktop to your office you need to know the internet address of your terminal server for example ts.mycompanyname.com.au
Depending on the client operating system you may find the remote desktop client in slightly different locations
Under the start menu go to All programs -> Accessories

On older Windows XP systems remote desktop  is under the sub folder [...]

How to cut down SBS monitoring memory usage on SBS 2003.

OWA, Exchange 2003, Forms-based Authentication, domain issue

If you follow this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309814 to configure automatically detect settings in Internet explorer and have set up a WPAD alias on your DNS server, you may find the autodiscovery is not working.
If you try to ping wpad or wpad.domainname.local you get a response Ping request could not find host wpad. Please check the name [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Running a registry clean using tune-up on a Windows 2008 server detected Missing fonts. Selecting to clean up the missing entries caused all the fonts to display as wingdings or other characters, making the system unuseable.
We had a similar issue with a different registry cleaner on a Windows 2003 server recently also.
I re-enstated the fonts [...]

For the Australian time servers on the Telstra network I use:
tic.ntp.telstra.net or toc.ntp.telstra.net. To save part of a second on DNS resolution time, or if the DNS server has not started I use the direct IPs in the setsntp command ie.
net time /setsntp:203.14.0.250
You can also use some other local servers like
ntp.cs.mu.OZ.AU. For other servers see [...]