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Resetting default file permissions on Windows Server 2003

Okay I blew it! Not until today in my career have I ever made a change to a production server that prevented it from booting properly!
I had to make a certain application run on a terminal server and the client wanted it “yesterday” as they always do. To cut a long story short I was […]

Group Policy File System and Registry Rights Not Applying

I was having a problem at several sites whereby the file and registry permissions that I was trying to set with Group Policy were not applying correctly.

Pinging [oy] with 32 bytes of data:

Where the “oy” have weird little French double dot things on the top of them. You can still ping by IP address but DNS and a whole lot of other stuff is poked.
Even a repair install didn’t fix this! I was beside myself until uncovering a little documented command.

Mapping Client Network Printers

If anyone is wondering why clients network printers wont map across on Windows Terminal Server 2003 it is normally due to the following reasons:

AccPac Error.

Currently I am upgrading a large school network from Netware to Windows Server 2003. Part of the migration included moving AccPac over to the new system.
Whilst most of this process went extremely smoothly I had a problem whereby when logged in as a normal user (with limited rights onto the local PC) couldn’t use AccPac […]

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