Windows – Cannot Delete Thumbs.db
KB ID 0000683 Problem Thumbs.db is a small hidden system file that gets generated when you view media in a folder, you know when you look at all your MP3 songs and you can see the album cover as a thumbnail? Or you can see what all your photos are as a tiny thumbnail before you open them, well thats what the thumbs.db file is doing. It’s a tiny cache of all that information so next time someone visits this folder it displays...
Print Migrator Error ‘WARNING: Kernel Mode drivers (version 2) are blocked on the target machine’
KB ID 0000811 Problem I really like Print Migrator, it makes a time consuming laborious task really easy. It’s so good Microsoft don’t use/support it any more, (after Server 2003). So this week when I was migrating printers from an SBS 2003 server to a clients 2003 CRM server, I was really happy, and dragged out PrintMig. Download Print Migrator 3.1 However when trying to restore the printers on the target server this...
Cannot Remote Desktop over VPN connection
KB ID 0000845 Problem This one had me well and truly stumped! The client has two sites and from their remote site they could not open a remote Desktop connection to a server at the main site. RDP Stuck at Securing remote connection. At first, because the client had SBS at their main site I assumed this was the problem, but sadly it was not. Solution The following process goes through the steps taken to identify and rectify the...
Deploy ODBC Settings via Group Policy
KB ID 0000805 Problem I’ve briefly mentioned this before when I wrote about Group Policy Preferences so when I had to do this on-site this week, I jumped straight into the group policy management console, and found that because my ODBC connection was using SQL authentication (with the SQL sa account), this would NOT WORK, (it only works with Windows authentication and even then it needs a tweak). If you are using SQL...
Error – Remove DirectAccess configuration settings from localhost before removing the Remote Access role.
KB ID 0000844 Problem When attempting to remove the Direct Access role from a Windows 2012 Server, you see the following; The validation process found problems on the server from which you want to remove features. The selected features cannot be removed from the selected server. Click OK to select different features. DirectAccess is configured on {host-name}. Remove DirectAccess configuration settings form {host-name} before removing...