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	<title>King Computer Sydney Network Engineers IT Blog &#187; Windows 2008</title>
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		<title>VMWARE virtual server under Windows 2008 loses network connection and shows disconnected</title>
		<link>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/vmware-virtual-server-under-windows-2008-loses-network-connection-and-shows-disconnected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan King</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VM Virtual machines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMWARE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disconnected]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/?p=1881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Running Window 2008 R2 server and VMWARE v2 with 3 virtual machines, we frequently find that after a restart, or loss and regain of network connectivity to the server that the virtual machines can no longer be contacted over the network.
pening the VMWare infrastructure web access and the console for that particular machine shows no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 7 or Windows 2008 add quicklaunch toolbar</title>
		<link>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/windows-7-or-windows-2008-add-quicklaunch-toolbar/</link>
		<comments>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/windows-7-or-windows-2008-add-quicklaunch-toolbar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan King</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[System Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 7]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[add]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quick launch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[toolbar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows 7]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/?p=1715</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
By default Windows 7 and 2008 no longer display the quick launch toolbar. Some users prefer this to the new taskbar method of pinning programs. The problem with pinning is you cannot create distinct shortcuts to particular files, you can only group like files on the program that executes it.

To add the quick launch toolbar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows 2008 Block or deny specific user remote desktop terminal services access</title>
		<link>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/windows-2008-block-or-deny-specific-user-remote-desktop-terminal-services-access/</link>
		<comments>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/windows-2008-block-or-deny-specific-user-remote-desktop-terminal-services-access/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan King</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Block]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Remote desktop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terminal services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[user]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/?p=1704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In group policy go to Computer Configuration\Policies\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment
Define the Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services policy
Add the users or groups you want to block from user remote deskop
Regards
Brendan King
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		<title>Because of a protocol error this session will be disconnected using terminal services remote control in windows 2008 R2</title>
		<link>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/because-of-a-protocol-error-this-session-will-be-disconnected-using-terminal-services-remote-control-in-windows-2008-r2/</link>
		<comments>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/because-of-a-protocol-error-this-session-will-be-disconnected-using-terminal-services-remote-control-in-windows-2008-r2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan King</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disconnected]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protocol error]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RDP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remote control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Remote desktop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[session]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terminal services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows 2008 R2]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/?p=1679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you try to remote control another session on a Windows 2008 R2 terminal server you may receive the message.
Change the RDP Compression setting on the server to &#8220;Balances memory and network bandwidth&#8221; (recommended) or &#8220;Optimized to use less memory&#8221; using Group Policy. If using Windows Server 2008 R2 you may also choose &#8220;Do not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hyper V recreating Virtual Machine Failed to Create external configuration store General access denied</title>
		<link>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/hyper-v-recreating-virtual-machine-failed-to-create-external-configuration-store-error/</link>
		<comments>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/hyper-v-recreating-virtual-machine-failed-to-create-external-configuration-store-error/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan King</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VM Virtual machines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[error]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Failed to Create external configuration store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyper-V]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Machine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/?p=1659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Having copied a Hyper-V VHD file from one server to a new server I ran through the Hyper-V wizard to create the new machine pointing to the existing VHD file.
Failed to create external configuration store at c:\Virtual Machines&#8217;: General access denied error
Â I found that if I created a new virtual machines folder c:\Virtual Machines 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to change network location on Windows 2008 server</title>
		<link>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/how-to-change-network-location-on-windows-2008-server/</link>
		<comments>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/how-to-change-network-location-on-windows-2008-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan King</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network location]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/?p=1652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Open the Local Security Policy
Select Network List Manger Policies
Right click on the Network name and properties. Set the required properties
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		<title>Outlook 2007 slow to open</title>
		<link>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/outlook-2007-slow-to-open/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan King</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outlook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brendan King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disable add-ins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outlook 2007]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speed up start up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[to open]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/?p=1639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently installed Outlook 2007 on a HyperV Windows 2008 R2 server terminal server talking to Exchange 2010 on another HyperV on the same box.
The server is a Dual Xeon with RAID 10 SAS drives pumping out 800Mb/s throughput yet Outlook 2007 would take about 8 seconds to open. Rubbish!
I found by disabling all add-ins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Set Google Australia as default search provider in Internet Explorer 8 IE8 using group policy</title>
		<link>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/set-google-australia-as-default-search-provider-in-internet-explorer-8-ie8-using-group-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/set-google-australia-as-default-search-provider-in-internet-explorer-8-ie8-using-group-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan King</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Windows 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[default search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[group policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ie8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet Explorer 8]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Save the text below as IE8Search.adm and then link the group policy.
Regards,
Brendan King
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CATEGORY !!InternetExplorer
POLICY !!PopulateSearchProviderList
Â Â Â #if version &#62;= 4
Â Â Â SUPPORTED !!SUPPORTED_IE7
Â Â Â #endif
Â Â Â EXPLAIN !!IE_Explain_PopulateSearchProviderList
Â Â Â KEYNAME &#8220;Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes&#8221;
Â Â Â VALUENAME Version
Â Â Â VALUEON NUMERIC 65001
Â Â  ACTIONLISTON
Â Â Â Â KEYNAME &#8220;Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{C003E69C-00DE-4439-A922-BFA17117197F}&#8221;
Â Â Â Â VALUENAME DisplayNameÂ  VALUE &#8220;Google Australia&#8221;Â
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Â Â Â #if version &#62;= 4
Â Â Â SUPPORTED !!SUPPORTED_IE7
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		<title>Tuneup registry cleaner delete fonts making everything garbled</title>
		<link>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/tuneup-registry-cleaner-delete-fonts-making-everything-garbled/</link>
		<comments>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/tuneup-registry-cleaner-delete-fonts-making-everything-garbled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan King</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operating Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 2003]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 2008]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thumbnails not showing in explorer in Windows Vista or 2008 server</title>
		<link>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/thumbnails-not-showing-in-explorer-in-windows-vista-or-2008-server/</link>
		<comments>http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/thumbnails-not-showing-in-explorer-in-windows-vista-or-2008-server/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan King</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vista]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[explorer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thumbnails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows 2008 server]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Windows Vista]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://technicians-blog.kingcomputer.com.au/?p=927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are having and issue in that you are only seeing icons instead of thumbnail pictures in windows explorer, go to Organize -&#62; Folder and Search Options

Go to the view tab and remove the check box for Always show icons, never thumbnails.

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