Continue reading »]]> For Windows 7

Open an Windows Command Prompt and enter the following to disable: - 

sc config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/nsi
sc config mrxsmb20 start= disabled

To enabled, enter the following: -

sc config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/mrxsmb20/nsi
sc config mrxsmb20 start= auto

For Windows Server 2008

Run "regedit" on Windows Server 2008 based computer.

Expand and locate the sub tree as follows.

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters

Add a new REG_DWORD key with the name of "Smb2" (without quotation mark)

Value name: Smb2
Value type: REG_DWORD
0 = disabled
1 = enabled

Set the value to 0 to disable SMB 2.0, or set it to 1 to re-enable SMB 2.0.

Reboot the server.

Continue reading »]]> I have been supporting Windows Small Business Server for many years.   One of SBS’s best selling points is the Remote Web Place ferature, this allows users to logon onto a internal hosted website and access there desktop PC or Remote Desktop Server via the webpage.

To allow this to work Microsoft uses an ActiveX control which needs to be installed the first time it’s used, this is presented as a yellow bar in IE9 and there seems to various causes with IE9 looping at the installation point, the bar just keeps reappearing even if the ActiveX control is installed.

This is what worked for me the last time I ran into the above problem

Select “Tools”, then “Internet options”.
Select the “Security” tab.
Select “Trusted Sites”.
Click on the “Sites” button.

Add your remote access web site to the list of trusted sites. You can add both http://domainname.com and https://domainname.com

Continue reading »]]> There’s a few places to change this and that’s global settings as well as the connectors.

To adjust your transport send/receive limits.

Global Settings
Organization Configuration->Hub Transport->Global Settings->Properties of Transport Settings

Then you must modify the connectors found here:

Send Connector
Organization Configuration->Hub Transport->Send Connectors->Properties of Default Send
Here you can adjust your send connectors default maximum message size

Receive Connector
Server Configuration->Hub Transport->Receive Connectors Pane->Properties of Default

Continue reading »]]> This can be achieved by running the Office OSPPREARM which is located in the Program Files folder.   Running this will command the Trial will be extended by 30 days, it can be run five times.

How to extend the Office 2010 Trial period

1.  Open a Command Prompt  as Administrator (Quickest method is to the CMD in Windows 7 start menu search and hit return)

2.  You need to navigate to one of the following paths:

64 Bit Office 2010, 64 Bit Windows

c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform

32 Bit Office 2010, 64 Bit Windows

c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform

3. Now run the OSPPREARM.exe file located in one of the above folders and you should received a “Microsoft Office rearm successful” message if you receive “Error: 0xc004d307 On a computer running Microsoft Windows non-core edition, run ‘slui.exe 0x2a 0xc004d307’ to display the error text.”  This happens because all of the 5 rearms have been used.

Continue reading »]]> It’s been a week of anniversary’s. This past week, Windows XP and Apple’s iPod both turned 10 years old.  I’m amazed how much has changed in the last 10 years.

Windows XP is Microsoft’s best operating system to date, Windows 7 has only just recently taken over Windows XP installed base.  So I guess it really is time to upgrade if your using Windows XP to read this.

Apple is now a bigger company than Microsoft and Steve Jobs is no longer with us. It’s then may be perhaps fitting that Microsoft has also released a video looking into the future.