How to install an audio device in WS2008 running in Hyper-V when you see an X at the bottom of the desktop, and when clicking on the icon you are prompted that no sound devices are installed.
Enable audio redirection on RDP-Tcp properties:
1. Open Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Terminal Services;
2. Open Remote Desktop Session Host Configuration:
3. Right-click on RDP-Tcp and open it's properties:
4. Click on the client settings tab:
5. Uncheck "Audio and video playback" on Redirection disable group.
6. Click "OK".
7. Reboot the terminal server.
Showing posts with label Windows Server 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows Server 2008. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
WIndows User Profile corruption - Windows 2008 Server, Vista, Windows 7
Windows 2008 user profile got corrupted by perhaps a network problem or unplanned server reboot.
The issue can happen on Vista and Windows 7 as well, you can find the same registry "profilelist" file structure.
When the user attempted to login he was prompted that the profile was bad - the server was inaccessible to his account.
The profile list is in the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\
The issue is that there are two SID files of the same name.
One with a .bak extension and one without.
The one without the extension, pointed to:
C:\Users\temp
The .bak SID, pointed to the original user profile, example below:
c:\users\username
example:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-x-xx-xxxxxx...-xxx.bak
The temp profile only had 3 keys as opposed to the 7 keys the former profile had - and still has after removing the .bak extension.
* The final step is to change the state property of the SID set to Zero.
This can happen on Vista and Windows 7 as well!
You can prevent your computer from being inaccessible by creating a second user on the computer in Control Panel > Users, so that you can log in with a good user profile, then edit the other profile.
The issue is rare, and you may never need it - good prevention on the outside chance that you run into this issue.
The issue can happen on Vista and Windows 7 as well, you can find the same registry "profilelist" file structure.
When the user attempted to login he was prompted that the profile was bad - the server was inaccessible to his account.
The profile list is in the following location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\
The issue is that there are two SID files of the same name.
One with a .bak extension and one without.
The one without the extension, pointed to:
C:\Users\temp
The .bak SID, pointed to the original user profile, example below:
c:\users\username
example:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-x-xx-xxxxxx...-xxx.bak
The temp profile only had 3 keys as opposed to the 7 keys the former profile had - and still has after removing the .bak extension.
* The final step is to change the state property of the SID set to Zero.
This can happen on Vista and Windows 7 as well!
You can prevent your computer from being inaccessible by creating a second user on the computer in Control Panel > Users, so that you can log in with a good user profile, then edit the other profile.
The issue is rare, and you may never need it - good prevention on the outside chance that you run into this issue.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Excel 2007 Windows cannot find "file" but you know it is there
Found this information at Avain Waves Blog - had the issue - very glad for the good information and pictures (screen shots) that are included.
It is a big issue when you cannot access the files through Windows Explorer, you know they are there but Windows says it cannot find them!
Click on the link below to see the steps that Avian Waves shows you:
Avian Waves Blog article showing how to overcome this issue.
Thanks to Avian Waves for finding and posting this useful fix that helped me out as I experienced this issue.
Quoted: 'Click on the office "pearl" (the circle button in the upper-left corner of Excel), then click on "Excel Options." From there, click on "Advanced," scroll down to "General," and uncheck "Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)."'
It is a big issue when you cannot access the files through Windows Explorer, you know they are there but Windows says it cannot find them!
Click on the link below to see the steps that Avian Waves shows you:
Avian Waves Blog article showing how to overcome this issue.
Thanks to Avian Waves for finding and posting this useful fix that helped me out as I experienced this issue.
Quoted: 'Click on the office "pearl" (the circle button in the upper-left corner of Excel), then click on "Excel Options." From there, click on "Advanced," scroll down to "General," and uncheck "Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)."'
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