Remote Desktop Connections
We support a lot of clients and need to get issues resolved quickly with as little fuss as possible, to achieve this we use lots of tools but one I couldn't live without is Remote Desktop Connection Manager, a free…
Reset Local Security Policy
This is a very useful command to remove any Security Policies that have been applied to a computer previously on a domain. When removing a computer from a domain, there can be various settings that get left behind (password complexity…
Rolling out Flash Player – Update
In a previous post entitled Keeping Adobe Flash Player up to date via Group Policy we detailed how to roll out Flash Player through Group Policy, well this needs a bit of tweaking post v11 being released. The new 32 bit version…
SharePoint Search and VSS Warnings
Unnecessary warnings in your event logs are annoying and one of the biggest culprits is the SharePoint Search service. The latest one I have come across is actually reported as a VSS warning and takes the form of VSS EventID…
Transferring Quicken 2000 to a new PC
We recently replaced a client's aging Windows 98 PC which was running an unsupported version of Quicken 2000. The client still had the Quicken installation CD, but had unfortunately lost the registration details. After installing Quicken on the new Windows…
Exchange 2010 Anonymous Relay
Occasionally you might need something on the inside of your network, like a monitoring machine or copier, to be able to anonymously relay to external domains through Exchange 2010. We've used 192.168.1.1 for our Exchange Servers IP and 192.168.1.23 for…
Set Computer Description from Active Directory
We often run audit reports on our clients networks to ascertain age of equipment, but identify where each computer is can be tricky from just the name and potentially the Last Login. We also endeavour to keep the computer description…
SBS Remote Access from a Mac
You need to setup a VPN then install and configure remote desktop connection. VPN More details can be found at http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2007/07/mac-on-sbs-creating-vpn-connection-to.html Open Finder. Click on Applications. Double click on Internet Connect.asp. You will be presented with the following window: Click on…
Easy Windows 7 Kiosk
Following on from my previous post, here is another bit of software that we have recommended to a client. The client wanted to set up a couple of PCs that members of the public could use to access the internet…
Classic ASP error on IIS7
If you're getting an ASP error in your event logs reading "Error: The Template Persistent Cache initialization failed for Application Pool 'AppPoolName' because of the following error: Could not create a Disk Cache Sub-directory for the Application Pool. The data…