Error While Attempting to Access a Windows Share
Nov17

Error While Attempting to Access a Windows Share

KB ID 0000439 Problem While attempting to connect to a Windows share you receive the error. Windows cannot access {target machine name} Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise there might be a problem with your network. to try to identify and resolve network problems, click diagnose. if you click “Diagnose” you will see the following, Error code: 0x80070035 The network path was not found. Note: You may also find that if...

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Windows Server – Migrating DHCP Scopes
Nov17

Windows Server – Migrating DHCP Scopes

KB ID 0000447 Problem Normally you can just create a new scope on your new DHCP server, but if you have a lot of reservations that you don’t want to have to recreate (for printers network devices etc), then it’s a better option to migrate/copy the scope to the new server. Solution 1. Copy all the DHCP settings to a text file with the following command; netsh dhcp server export C:\dhcp.txt all 2. Stop and disable the DHCP...

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Windows Server – Enable Multiple RDP sessions
Nov17

Windows Server – Enable Multiple RDP sessions

KB ID 0000471 Problem Server 2012/2008 R2 unlike their predecessors, comes with the multiple remote desktop session restriction enabled. If you are only connecting to a server for remote administration purposes that can get a bit annoying, especially if you have a generic administrative account that multiple techs are using, and you keep kicking each other off the server. Just as with earlier versions of Windows server you CAN have...

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Server 2008 – TS (Remote Desktop Services) Licensing
Nov17

Server 2008 – TS (Remote Desktop Services) Licensing

KB ID 0000523 Dtd 23/03/12 Problem A couple of months back I put in a 2008 Terminal Services Server, or Remote Desktop Services as it’s now called. I installed the Licensing server and successfully added in the licences the client had purchased, but a while later he rang to say he was having licensing issues. At first I thought it might have “dropped” it’s licences so I checked Remote Desktop Licensing Manager,...

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Windows Server 2008 R2 Deploying Applications with RemoteApp
Nov17

Windows Server 2008 R2 Deploying Applications with RemoteApp

KB ID 0000528 Problem RemoteApp is a solution for delivering applications to your users from a Remote Desktop Services Server. Why would you want to do this? Imagine you only had one copy of office to update in your entire organisation when a new service pack or security update is released., or Adobe bring out a new version of Dreamweaver that’s on all your machines – you simply update the master copy on the RDS server, or...

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