Month: October 2011

Categories
Windows Server 2003

RDP : Black Logon Screen

RDP : Black Logon Screen

Came across an odd one the other day where when trying to logon via RDP I was greeted with an RDP logon Window that was pretty much all black; Text Input boxes (username/password/domain) were all black, the logon window was all black, blackground was black. Everything was black other than the Windows 2003 logo.

Once logged in everything was fine however.

When it’s broken down like that you may see where I’m going with this…

Check out the Colour values under: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors

On the affected server these were all “0 0 0” – i.e. black. You can simply export this key from another (working) Windows 2003 server and iomport it to the affected box.

Categories
Exchange Server 2010

Exchange 2010: Troubleshooting Public Folder Referrals

Exchange 2010: Troubleshooting Public Folder Referrals

I had an issue today where a user from another Mailbox server/domain (same forest/Exchange Org) was unable to access public folders on a different Exchange server.

It turned out that the users home Public Folder Database had been configured to allow refferals to only a single server. To identify this I used the following Exchange Shell Command:

{code lang:css title:”Exchange Shell Command” lines:false hidden:false}

$pfdb = Get-PublicFolderDatabase -IncludePreExchange2010

$pfdb | select-object servername,name,UseCustomReferralServerList,CustomReferralServerList | ft

{/code}

 

To resolve the issue the Exchage Admin needed to add the destination Public Folder Database Servers to the CustomReferralServerList.

Categories
Microsoft

SCCM : Client Site Code Change

SCCM : Client Site Code Change

I had a need recently to change the site code of some SCCM cliwents that had already been deployed. I used the following vbScript to change the site code of a client (remotely or locally!), the script can be integrated into a logon script to automate the process if desired:

{code lang:ini title:”vbScript” lines:true hidden:false}’Replace NEW_SITE with your Site Code
sSiteCode = “NEW_SITE”
sMachine = “.”
set oCCMNamespace = GetObject(“winmgmts://” & sMachine & “/root/ccm”)
Set oInstance = oCCMNamespace.Get(“SMS_Client”)
set oParams = oInstance.Methods_(“SetAssignedSite”).inParameters.SpawnInstance_()
oParams.sSiteCode = sSiteCode
oCCMNamespace.ExecMethod “SMS_Client”, “SetAssignedSite”, oParams {/code}