Monday, June 29, 2009

Windows 2008 Terminal services

To configure access:
  1. Create AD group, for example: "TS Users"
  2. Put the group in local "Remote Desktop Users" group on the terminal server.
  3. Put the terminal server in local "Terminal Server Computers" group on the "TS licensing" server to enable to read licensing information.
  4. Put the terminal server in separate OU and create a GPO. The GPO "Security Filtering" should include the terminal server itself and "TS Users" group. This will disable all limitation for administrators. Do not include administrators in "TS Users". Remove "All Authenticated" group from the GPO "Security Filtering"

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Clustering Print services on Windows 2008.

In case, if you need to install additional drivers on the shared printer:

1. On any one of the clients machine running 32-bit OS
2. Download the 32-bit driver for the printer. The driver name should be same as Windows 2008 driver, if it is not the case, the printer driver inf file should be edited under Vendor section, for example [HP] or [Brother] to name the printer exactly as Windows 2008 driver named.
3. Access the print server \\PrintserverName\Printers
4. Open the printer required to add the 32-bit driver
5. If needed, install the downloaded driver.
6. Go to properties
7. Sharing Tab
8. Additional drivers
9. Check the box for x86 for windows 2000,windows xp and windows 2003
10. Click OK.

Monday, June 15, 2009

NTP servers pool

Very convinent way to configure NTP sources, servers:
0.pool.ntp.org
1.pool.ntp.org
2.pool.ntp.org
Command line: net time /setsntp:"0.pool.ntp.org 1.pool.ntp.org 2.pool.ntp.org"
Do not forget to restart "windows time" service.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Novell SUSE - SLES registration

To get Novell Updates on SLES server you will need to activate the server. It can be done during installation or after with command from terminal:
suse_register -a regcode-sles=NEWCODE

Hyper-V Config 4096 Error

In my case it was old references to removed VMs on my Hyper-V host: 
"The Virtual Machines configuration DC6D0B26-9438-4504-9500-73342A42EC0B at 'E:\UTIL02-VM' is no longer accessible: The system cannot find the path specified. (0x80070003)"
So, I just delete configuration reference XML file  "DC6D0B26-9438-4504-9500-73342A42EC0B.xml" from: 
"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\Virtual Machines"
But be careful, do not delete valid reference!