Category Archive: Fix

Mar 23 2011

Windows Server 2008 R2 Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Server not displaying in SBS 2003 RWW

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A clients Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Server failed.   We installed Windows Server 2008 R2 and configured it as a Remote Desktop Server.  But it didn’t appear in the RWW as a 2003 Terminal server would have normally.  As the image below demonstrates. Thanks to Philip Elder, http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2008/08/terminal-server-not-showing-up-in.html for the following fix.  Which I have posted here …

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Feb 25 2011

The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in the licensing protocol.

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Kept receiving this error trying to connect to Windows Server 2008 R2 – Remote Desktop Server. After using RD Web Access page. The solution was to right click on the RDP client and run as Admin which ensures that it can update the registry, you only have to do this once and then from there …

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May 11 2010

Sage Line 50 and Windows 7 64bit

Ran into an issue with 64 bit windows and Sage Line 50.   We use excel to suck data from sage for our stock, accounts, etc… All of the spreadsheets that we have rely on the ODBC connector but it wouldn’t work, even when we tried to configure it via the 32 ODBC control panel applet.   …

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Sep 07 2009

HDMI Screen Resolution

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I plugged my Laptop into my TV (42” Sharp 1080i) and I received this: – As you can see the taskbar and the left edge aren’t visible, after playing around with screen resolution and not getting anywhere I decided to take a look at my remote.  I found an option which allowed me to put …

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Aug 24 2009

Outlook 2007 Managing RSS Feeds

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Had this error starting coming up in outlook the last few days: Believe it or not I couldn’t ID which feed had the issue, I went into the RSS folder and right clicked but it doesn’t display the URL. Eventually I found it in Tools > Accounts > RSS Tab, double click on each feed …

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Jan 03 2009

Windows Home Server

A month or so ago I started to copy a 40mb file to my WHS (HP MediaSmart).  The resulting copy dialog reported that it was going to take 30+ mins to copy.  At first I thought it was a Windows Vista Issue.  So boot up my XP laptop and copied a file still slow.  From …

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Jul 11 2008

SBS CAL Resets

  This has happened to me on a number of SBS boxes whit low hard drive space, generally on drive C: SBS resets the cal count to 5! We have just had a customer call and this has happened to.  Normally we backup the CALS using the built in backup utility within SBS Console. Found …

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