20 Windows 7 Tips and Tricks for IT Admins Administrators are constantly learning these days. Server virtualization, desktop VDI, Exchange, SharePoint — it’s a never-ending barrage of new material to take in. With so many products, it’s easy to fall behind on learning all the…
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Link State Suppression – Exchange 2003 migration to Exchange 2010
Enable Link State Suppression When running the Exchange 2010 Pre-Deployment Analyzer you will probably get this message: Before introducing Exchange Server 2010 into this topology, the ‘SuppressStateChanges’ configuration parameter should be set to ‘1’ on server EXCHANGE03SERVER. This parameter is…
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Understanding (and troubleshooting) Auto-Publishing in Windows Virtual PC
This is simply a repost of a page I found very helpful recently when dealing with Windows XP mode installed in Windows 7. Enjoy http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2009/10/28/understanding-and-troubleshooting-auto-publishing-in-windows-virtual-pc.aspx
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Fix the SharePoint DCOM 10016 error on Windows Server 2008 R2
Fix the SharePoint DCOM 10016 error on Windows Server 2008 R2 NOTE: This solution also works for many other DCOM errors. Simply replace the GUID’s and Service names used below. If you have been installing SharePoint you have probably also seen and…
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Remove the requirement to specify domain name with Single Signon for RDS
Removing the requirement to specify domain name with Single Signon for Remote Desktop Services Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services single signon provides the users the ability to login to RD Web Access and launch applications without having to provide…
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Import NK2 files from older versions into Outlook 2010
Import NK2 files from older versions of Outlook into Outlook 2010 Moving from an older version of Outlook, to Outlook 2010 or higher? Need to carry along your “nickname”, or NK2 file, that auto fills when you start typing…
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Enabling RDP Audio on Windows 2008 R2
RDP Audio on a Windows 2008 R2 server is enabled by performing the following Click Start, then Run and type MMC.EXE File –> Add/Remove Snap-In Add Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration Click OK. Click On RD Session Host Configuration:…
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This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on your system
This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Note: These solutions work in all versions of IE. When clicking on hyperlinks in Outlook, or even linked sheets/items in Excel. A very common question comes up…
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How Can I Change the Screensaver Timeout Value Without Using a GPO?
For some reason, Microsoft’s scripting technologies come up a little short any time you’re talking about Windows settings and components, things like screensavers, wallpaper, the Taskbar, the Start menu, etc. You can use WMI (in particular, the Win32_Desktop class) to read many…
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SBS 2003 SP1 or SP2 “The drive contains a disc…”
Symptom: When you try to reinstall the server tools in Microsoft Windows Small Business Server (Windows SBS) 2003, or when you try to reinstall components such as Intranet or Monitoring, you experience the following symptom: The drive contains a disc for…
