A cheeky little command I found out about.
Pressing CTRL + ALT + PAUSE/BREAK
This causes Remote Desktop connection to change from window mode to full screen. I found out the hard way that using my laptop to connect to server screens was causing the screen refresh and to resize.
One point to note is that on some laptops you may also need to press Fn, as BREAK is a secondary keyboard option (usually in blue).
The major problem I have run into recently is clients running Windows 7, can not connect to a TS Server through RWW. What you see is a very helpful message about a licensing problem:
The Remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in the licensing protocol. Please try connecting to the remote computer again or contact your server administrator.
This is all great and well, but you will find that users of Windows XP can happily connect to your terminal server and there are no licensing errors.
This all points a problem with the client rather than the terminal server.
After some recent findings, there seem to be several things to try:
If you use the Run As Administrator option above then you should find that you can connect with no problems. This has a small draw back for users on a domain, as you may not be allowed to run programs as an administrator because of local permissions and policies. If this is the case then you need to change the Registry.
You need to modify:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing
Set full access permissions for all users.
If you are using Windows 7 x64 then you also need to modify:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\MSLicensing
Set full access permissions for all users.
If you haven’t yet heard, Microsoft have taken the desicion to discontinue the development of EBS.
As yet details are somewhat thin on the ground, however wait until June 2010 for further offers/information from Microsoft.
If you are a Software Assurance customer then things might not be so bad, as you should be offered the indpendant products in place of your EBS 2008 product.
Further details can be found at:
Posts round here seem to be like buses…..nothing for ages, then 2 at once!!
If you get the wonderful error message:
Unable to open the Outlook window.
Then don’t worry, they is a knowledge base article all about it here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/252304
You may find that this is really use(less), and there want to try alternatives to your problem. I have found the most efficient way to get rid of this particular error is:
Start->run..then type the following -> “Outlook.exe /resetnavpane”
A far easier approach!
How many blogs have started off with that I wonder?
Ok, so this is quite probably not the most interesting of posts but it is my first. Hopefully as I find myself tweaking WordPress more, than I find mself thinking of interesting material to post here that balance will change.
So, what is the point you ask? Another blog, more internet space wasted with drivel, well hopefully not.
Although this is going to be of use to a select few, hopefully you will find it informative.