Windows 2008 Server Archive

  • citrix

    Setup Citrix Receiver Enterprise Version On Clients Without Administrator Rights

    Tweet So you have finished setting up Citrix XenApps and Citrix Web Interface on your servers, now all you need to do is push the web clients to your users in your domain. With the new version of Citrix XenApp (6.5), the web client plug-in...

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    No HTTP redirect icon in IIS

    Tweet If you are looking to have HTTP Redirect feature on your IIS 7 server, you won’t see this feature until you have enabled the HTTP Redirection role on the server for it.  This is kind of stupid for Microsoft for not have it enabled...

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    IE Starts In “No Add-ons” Mode

    Tweet If your Internet Explorer starts in ‘No Add-ons’ mode, you might want to check your shortcut.  Most likely, there is an “-extoff” after the explore.exe file. To fix this, right click on the IE shortcut or icon and choose ‘Properties’.  Edit the path link...

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  • windows

    How To Monitor Event Logs?

    Tweet One of the tasks of being a Windows System Administrator is to monitor system event logs for errors and potential warning errors.  This article is to show you how to monitor event logs on servers with scripts.  You can use VB script or Powershell...

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    How To Create A Central Store For Domain-Based GPO Administrative Templates?

    Tweet Below are the procedures on how to setup and create a central store for ADMX files. 1. On your primary DC, create a folder name “PolicyDefinitions” under the “%systemroot%\sysvol\domain\policies\” path e.g. %systemroot%\sysvol\domain\policies\PolicyDefinitions 2. Create a subfolder for each language e.g. for English, %systemroot%\sysvol\domain\policies\PolicyDefinitions\EN-US 3....

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    MAPI Call Failed. Error ‘An unexpected error has occurred.’

    Tweet Today, we have experienced an issue with our Blackberry Server.  Every time when we try to activate a Blackberry device we are seeing the following error on the MAGT log file. [20400] (03/07 16:18:17.593):{0x1BB8} {Jsmith@xxxxx.com} MAPIMailbox::MAPIMailbox – OpenMsgStore (0×80040204) failed, MailboxDN=/o=xxxx /ou=Exchange Administrative Group...

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  • How To Disable Netbios In Windows?

    How To Disable Netbios In Windows?

    Tweet To disable NetBIOS,  you will need to go into your network interface adapter settings under Control Panel in Windows. Look for the ‘Network Connections‘ in Windows XP.  For Vista/Windows 7, it is located in a different folder ‘Network and Sharing Center‘. - Right-click on...

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    Vista and Windows 7 Compatibility Mode

    Tweet With Vista and Windows 7, Microsoft have changed a lot since Windows XP.  The whole folder directories structure have changed, and along with many other features that have changed/added/removed from Windows XP.  Luckily, with Vista and Windows 7, you can still be able to...

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