I have been investigating issues with our laptops whereby they would freeze and become generally unresponsive when changing area and thus changing they connected WAP. This was causing big problems for staff who teach in multiple rooms and regularly change between wired and wireless connections. We have a combination of HP ProCurve 420WW and HP
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Tag: Windows Server 2008
Redirected My Documents folders showing as ‘Documents’ rather than the users name
Had a complaint from a member of staff recently that all students work folders showed up as My Documents when he was browsing through their work. Many of you may have been directed to this Microsoft KB as a ‘solution’. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947222 Not much of a solution if you ask me. Redirection to a subfolder would
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Specified Port is Unknown error when adding Network Printers
Just finished investigating and resolving an error whereby the message ‘Specified Port is Unknown’ appears when adding a network printer. This was first noticed when running a login script that add’s printers didn’t actually add any printers. To fix this problem, you need to delete references to the printer drivers in the registry. I had
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Windows 2008 R2 RDS: Print Spooler Stops
We have two servers running Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services. On both servers the Print Spooler service kept randomly stopping. In the Application event log, we noticed this error keep appearing: Faulting application name: spoolsv.exe, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version 6.1.7600.16385, timestamp: 0x4a5bd3d1 Exception code: 0xc0000374 After trying to
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Login Script Not Running Windows 2008 Remote Desktop Services (Terminal Services)
Call today: User has not got any network drives when logging on to the thin clients. The setup for this is as follows: 2 x Windows Server 2008 R2 servers running RDS, DNS round robin, load balanced. 56 x ThinStation 2.2.2 clients A VBS login script is applied using Group Policy. All student users have
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Could not access OWA using HTTPS – Error 404
Symptoms here are: Unable to access OWA Outlook 2007 reports that it is unable to change any Out Of Office settings; server unavailable. The enviroment: Microsoft Exchange 2007 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008. One other symptom, which I don’t know if this resolved or something else did, is that the Free/Busy information was not
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Backup Exec 12: Remote SharePoint Agent – Access Denied
Just coming to the end of fixing a very frustrating problem with Backup Exec 12, and backing up our SharePoint 2007 farm. After over 8 hours on the phone and extra work done by email with Symantec engineers, I have a solution. Here’s the basic information: SharePoint Server: Windows Server 2008 Standard x64 SharePoint Server
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802.1x User Authentication with Mandatory Profiles
Just been working on 60 new Asus Eee netbooks that we have bought for student use in the college. Mainly, testing thoroughly that the wireless was going to work flawlessly. We got everything working for ourselves using Network Policy Server, HP Procurve 420 AP’s and PEAP. Only problem – when a student logs in, the
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Reconnect Just Flickers & Returns
After all that work sorting out my user profiles, and reducing my logon time as far as I can (record is 12 seconds from entering password to a working desktop :-) ) I have found another problem. The clients are booting up fine, pulling the config files from the network and running the right applications.
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Group Policy Client Service Failed the Login: Access is Denied
This error has been annoying me for nearly 4 hours now. We have a terminal server for students. All students use a mandatory profile, located on a share so that it can be accessed by all of the servers in the farm. I thought this would be easy to set up, so I did the
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