I recently managed to cause myself a huge headache when removeing some software via group policy.
The worst part is, I only have myself to blame as the software was wrapped by me using Masai Installer.
If software uninstallation (or installation for that matter) goes bad, then a dialog window will open asking for some sort of [...]

As I’m always forgetting these, I thought I’d make a note.
When installing software on a Microsoft Terminal Server, you need to set the server to be in installation mode to support folder virtualisation for users.
One way to make sure that this works is to install any new software through Add/Remove Programs, and then ‘Add New [...]

Getting roaming profiles working on Windows Servers is a very simple process, and I generally include this in a script when creating users for the first time.
Here’s a quick ‘how to’ for those that are interested, based on a Windows 2000 or Server 2003 network.
Step 1 – Decide where you want the profiles to live [...]

As Microsoft have released the new policy template, ADMX with with Vista – it’s about time I looked into converting our Centaur Systems policy template to the new ADMX format to see how the process goes.
Thanks to the ADMX Editor available from Microsoft, the process is quite straight-forward.

Install and run the ADMX editor
Click ‘Generate ADMX [...]

I noticed that some files were disappearing on one of the Servers the other day. A few people had noticed. And it finally happened to me. I was roaming through my ‘My Documents’ folder when I noticed that folders that shouldn’t be empty were.
Checking out the KnowledgeBase, I discovered that if your profile folder is [...]

I’ve been having problems with the Tally 8006e and 8024 running on Windows Server 2003. On a couple of systems I’ve found that the drivers seem to knock out the Windows spool. Whenever it tries to print, an error message pops up saying Unable to create print job.
The fact that it doesn’t even seem to [...]