For some *completely* inane reason, Microsoft decided that, by default, they’d configure Terminal Services in Server 2008 to show the user who last logged on, when you connect. WTF? I mean, everyone knows that you need two things to be able to log into a system - a “username” and a “password”. So, why the hell would you give any fool who comes along with an RDP client 1/2 of that equation? Hrm.

Anyway, to fix it, do the following…

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Well, who’d have thunk it? The first decent 2k8 install that I’ve done, and within an hour or two of testing with the client, the first “issue” has cropped up. Grrr.

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This creates the signature you can see at the end of this message. The best thing to do is to have a users’ login script call it, and then the signature gets recreated at every login (which is good if you have users who tweak stuff they shouldn’t, or if your “disclaimer” changes for marketing reasons etc). Just have to make sure that Active Directory is populated with all of their data…

It’s a bit fiddly to edit, but it’s easy enough if you pay attention…

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Good for spying on users…

http://www.stevengould.org/software/indexdatspy/

Allows you to view the contents of index.dat files.

index.dat files have been the subject of much discussion since Microsoft has released relatively little information about them. Even after clearing your browser history, emptying your cache and deleting your cookies from Internet Explorer, there still remains information about where you’ve been surfing hidden away in these index.dat files.

This is the *best* tool ever for helping to migrate from one 2000/2003 Server to a 2000/2003/2008 server.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9B9F2925-CBC9-44DA-B2C9-FFDBC46B0B17&displaylang=en

Keep in mind that if importing into Server 2008, you’ll need to use printbrmui.exe to import instead.

New messages in Public Folders (such as those created in mail-enabled public folders that recieve email from the Internet) don’t default to emails for some silly reason, but to IPM.Post. This can be easily fixed via the following article.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832492/en-us

Resetting the Symantec System Center admin user password

You can use the Password Reset Utility to reset any user’s password. You must have Administrator access to the primary server of the server group.

To reset the Symantec System Center admin user password…

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(Or, how do I get a single server to listen for SMB requests using multiple server names?)

Tested and working on a Win2k3 SBS server. Very helpful when migrating servers where you need old shortcuts etc to work and can be used in conjunction with DFS when migrating directory structures.

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One of the things I hate the most about Adobe Reader is how it bugs users to update it every second freakin’ day. Well, here’s a way to deal with this.

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