Archive for the ‘Windows Server 2003’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/02
Very interesting, especially since rdesktop.org works with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 as well, and is stable on x64.
It provides three tools: rdesktop, rdpproxy and seamlessrdp.
Researching this, I also found about TSWindowClipper which allows you to seamlessly integrates remote apps on your client by integrating a DLL inside the MSTSC software using the official virtual channels.
Back to rdesktop: I really wish the documentation was better, but it contains some very interesting source code.
rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Remote Desktop Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. rdesktop is known to work with Windows versions such as NT 4 Terminal Server, 2000, XP, 2003, 2003 R2, Vista, 2008, 7, and 2008 R2.
rdesktop currently runs on most UNIX based platforms with the X Window System, and other ports should be fairly straightforward.
rdesktop is released under the GNU Public Licence (GPL), version 3. Please send feedback, bug reports and patches to the appropriate mailing list. Patches can also be submitted to the SF patch tracker.
rdesktop is a project. See the Sourceforge rdesktop project info and the Wiki for more information.
Status
The latest stable version of rdesktop is 1.7.1 (edit: this was at the time of writing, for the current latest, check here). This versions solves major issues with 64bit version and smartcard support among a few minor fixes.
–jeroen
via rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client.
Posted in *nix, Development, Linux, Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, Software Development, SuSE Linux, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/20
Interesting as a complement to fsutil and mklink and FindLinks and Junction: Link Shell Extension and ln.exe.
It allows you to create and maintain “Hardlinks, Junctions , Volume Mountpoints , and Windows7/8’s Symbolic Links, (herein referred to collectively as Links) a folder cloning process” and more.
Note that Link Shell Extensions require NTFS5 or higher (NTFS.sys version 5, which corresponds with NTFS v3.1)
–jeroen
via: Link Shell Extension.
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/30
KB2844285 failed to update on one of my XP systems, probably because it got re-released on 20130813: MS13-052: Description of the security update for the .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003: July 9, 2013.
The .NET Framework Repair Tool failed as well, so I needed more rigorous measures.
To get it working, the below steps are what I did after reading Updated: what to do if other .NET Framework setup troubleshooting steps do not help – Aaron Stebner’s WebLog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
The reason for all these steps is that there is are dependencies (3.5 SP1 depend on 3.5, which depends on 3.0 SP2, which depends on 3.0, which depends on 2.0 SP2, which depends on 2.0; the language packs depend on their respective versions).
- run Appwiz.cpl (that’s the Add or Remove Programs wizard in the Control Panel).
- uninstall .NET 3.5 SP1 (I didn’t have language packs for that installed).
- uninstall the language packs for .NET 3.0 SP2.
- uninstall the language packs for .NET 3.0.
- uninstall .NET 3.0 SP2.
- uninstall the language packs for .NET 2.0 SP2.
- uninstall the language packs for .NET 2.0.
- uninstall .NET 2.0 SP2.
- uninstall .NET 2.0 SDK ENU.
- read the .NET Framework Cleanup Tool User’s Guide, then ran the .NET Framework Cleanup Tool for .NET versions 3.5, 3.0, 2.0 in that order.
- reboot
- download and install the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 (it is needed by the SDK from the next step).
- that failed: “DepCheck indicates Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0a is not installed.”.
- uninstall .NET 4 Client Profile
- uninstall .NET 1.1 language packs
- uninstall .NET 1.1 SDL
- uninstall .NET 1.1
- run the .NET Framework Cleanup Tool for .NET versions 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1 in that order
- download and install the .NET 1.1
- download and install the .NET 1.1 SDK
- download and install the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 (it is needed by the SDK from the next step).
- download and install the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework SDK (some tools on this machine required this).
- downloaded and installed Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (as it contains .NET 2.0 through 3.5 SP1 including all intermediate versions and updates).
- read the .NET Framework Setup Verification Tool User’s Guide, then ran the .NET Framework Setup Verification Tool: no problems.
- installed the updates and hotfixes for the above .NET versions using the Microsoft Update site.
It was a single processor system, so it took a few hours to complete, but now it works well again.
BTW: in preparation of the Windows XP / Windows 2003 Server, I plan to create and archive a few activated VMs with as many .NET frameworks and language packs on it. Just in case I need it for clients that still depend on them.
–jeroen
via: KB2844285 – fail to update – Microsoft Community.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/27
From The Old New Thing:
Recall that the library search path searches directories in the following order:
- The directory containing the application EXE.
- The system32 directory.
- The system directory.
- The Windows directory.
- The current directory.
- The PATH.
Note that the PATH environment variable has a limited length, which can be impacted by the installation programs you use and the Windows versions you use.
To be on the safe side, use 1024 or 1920.
I found various limitations: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Development, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/17
Programmers scale: time versus project completeness
I totally agree that Paint.NET is the best free image and photo editor on Windows.
Writing quality software takes time, not only when writing it in spare time like Rick Brewster does. Getting things “right” is a tedious process and often will set you back: just watch the graph on the right.
So I’m not surprised that it took a very long time after the first Paint.NET 4.0 idea in 2008 to get “close” to a release.
And indeed, it looks like Rick has become much closer which will please many people waiting for Paint .NET 4.
I’m really glad with the announcement that Paint.NET v3.5.11 BETA is now available – Paint.NET Discussion & Questions – Paint.NET Forum.
Edit: while writing this, the final Paint.NET v3.5.11 came out.
It paves the way for Paint .NET 4.0 update in the future, and fixes/improves quite a few things.
A few quotes from it:
This is probably not the update you were expecting I need to push out an update to v3.5 in preparation for the eventual release of v4.0 […] releasing a “beta” today […] I’ll be pushing out the Final/RTM in a few days.
The primary goal of this update is preparing for the v4.0 release: v3.5.10 will not be able to offer the v4.0 update, but v3.5.11 will. […]
Here are the changes for this release:
- Fixed: The Gaussian Blur effect was incorrectly calculating alpha values for non-opaque pixels. (http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/18483-gaussian-blur-mistreats-alpha/)
- Improved performance of the Sharpen effect by about 25%
- Improved performance of the Median effect by about 30%
- Improved performance of the Fragment effect by about 40%
- Improved performance of the Unfocus effect by about 100%
- Reduced memory usage when many selection manipulation operations are in the history/undo stack (the undo data is now saved to disk)
- The built-in updater now supports upgrading to paint.net 4.0 (once it’s available)
There have been rumors floating around that Paint.NET is “dead.” This is not true!
–jeroen
via: Paint.NET Blog | The best free image and photo editor. By Rick Brewster..
Posted in .NET, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, Algorithms, Development, Floating point handling, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: computer, software, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/12
Ideal to prevent unwanted screen savers: MouseJiggle.exe
- Required .NET framework 2.0.
- Commandline parameter -j or –jiggle will autostart it.
- Works on all Windows versions I tried (including Windows 7 and up)
- Does not prevent RDP/MSTSC idle detection imposed by the Session Time Limits group policy.
–jeroen
via: Mouse Jiggler – Documentation.
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/08
When doing a lot of remote desktop and VM work from a Mac to Windows machines, the Mission Control shortcuts (like Ctrl Up/Down) often get in the way.
Since I hardly use Mission Control anyway (I run VMs and remote machines to really cut dependencies: far stronger than multiple desktops), I just disabled all the Mission Control keyboard shortcuts you see here:
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Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/10
(note: part of this post is unfinished, but I wanted to make sure all the links are publicly accessible, so I posted earlier and incomplete)
I already did a few ESXi5 postings (they apply to 5.1 as well) of which the most important are:
Time to finish up some additional installation steps (with a big thanks to Matthijs ter Woord):
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Posted in BIOS, Boot, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, Hardware, HP XW6600, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, PowerCLI, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi, Wake-on-LAN (WoL), Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/17
Sometimes I get messages like the below No Disk error on virtual machines, mainly in Windows XP and lower, but sometimes in more recent Windows versions too.
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Windows - No Disk
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Exception Processing Message c0000013 Parameters 75b6bf7c 4 75b6bf7c 75b6bf7c
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Cancel Try Again Continue
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The 0xc0000013 is a No Disk Exception.
Every time the solution has been to uninstall the floppy drive device from the VM image.
I never had it on physical hardware, but for that, disabling all unused removable and USB disk devices seem to work.
Somehow, lots of software thinks it should scan ALL media, even the removable ones that might not have media inserted.
–jeroen
via: A Consuming Experience: Windows – no disk Exception Processing Message c0000013 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf9c 75b6bf9c – fixed!.
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/26
Found a while ago that Brian Long wrote a few nice pages and posts on Windows keyboard shortcuts:
Thanks Brian
–jeroen
Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: blong, jeroen, software, technology, windows keyboard shortcuts, windows shortcuts | Leave a Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 