Registry Corruption?
Has anyone had any issues with registry corruption and Steady State? We rolled out WSCT this summer and one model of computer has been giving us an issue with registry corruption. We didnt know Steady State was released until after we had completed this rollout. Steady State "appears" to resolve the problem on these IBM 9712-A1U's. But we have only been running them with Steady State for a couple weeks. I was just hoping to hear if anyone else has had any similar issues with Steady State.
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Hi James
Based on the feedback in this forum, I haven't heard of similar issues either in SteadyState or Shared Computer Toolkit. If the issue remains, please feel free to let me know and I will be glad to help.
As this forum mainly focus on SteadyState related issues, I am not sure what caused the registry corruption. However, I haven't experienced this issue when using SCT.
Best Regards,
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It appears to be resolved at them moment. I just upgraded the PC's to Steady State and everything appears to be fine. I was just trying to be a little proactive.------------------------------------
SqlDependency
I have moved the threads that had questions about SqlDependency feature to the rightful owners (Sql Server Data Access) forum at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=87&SiteID=1
cannot double click to view image
Ok I have a few machines rolled out with Steady State on them.
I get a call saying that you cannot double click on a jpeg file and view it in what Microsoft uses as a default viewer. The default viewer is Microsoft photo editor. Keep in mind all was fine before steady state was installed. All the units have the same problem. Once Steady State is installed you cannot double click to view an image as 99% of users do.
It gives a Microsoft Photo Editor error "No file format information can be found in the registry" and an OK button. When you click on "OK" Microsoft photo editor opens and you get another error that says "unknown file format. This is a fresh install of XP, fresh install of Steady State, brand new user created IN steady state. EVERYTHING IS FINE IF YOU LOGIN AS THE ADMINISTRATOR. You can double click on a sample pic and it opens in the Microsoft photo editor (as administrator). If you check the file associations they are correct.
This can be resolved by following the Knowledge Base Article ID 260151
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/260151
I am not trying to explain the reason just provide a solution if anyone else experiences this behavior and does not notice it right away. If you read this and know why then maybe the registry could be automatically changed in the next release of Steady StateReply:
Thanks for your great sharing! Based on the above Knowledge Base article, the related registry permissions can be reset by some security programs. This can be a known issue of Photo Editor.
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Recovery Storage Group Documentation error?
In the help file section for recovery storage groups,
I feel there is an error the help file says the destination databases must have the -AllowFileRestore bit set.
this is needed for the recovery database in the recovery storage group but not where you are merging the recovered mailbox to...
I have tested it and indeed this piece is not needed
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1. Set the destination database to allow overwrites by running the following Exchange Management Shell command:
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set-mailboxdatabase -identity <Server_Name>\<Destination_StorageGroup_Name>\<Destination_Database_Name> -AllowFileRestore | |
password expiration control
for those systems that us a name change for the admin account I'm receiving alerts for password expiration. it would be great if thier was a way to exclude certain accounts from the check by adding to the pool of system service accounts.
Im Having The Same Problem
resolved
oh ok but the problem is resolved.......................
and the computer is again fast.
SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver v1.2 publicly available in all supported languages
The Microsoft SQL Server JDBC team is proud to announce the availability of our v1.2 RTW release in all supported languages. Both the online documentation on MSDN and localized downloadable documentation packages, included as part of the driver, can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/jdbc.
In this release we significantly reduced the driver's memory footprint usage especially when handling large clobs and blobs on multiple active connections. This resulted in performance and scalability improvements, through the use of "responseBuffering=adaptive" connection property. We also introduced SQL Server SSL encryption support. In our continuing effort to expand our XA support, we have added a new "SSTRANSTIGHTLYCPLD" flag which allows applications to use a single global transaction ID along with different XA branch IDs.
More info is available on the MSDN site and the JDBC blog site: http://blogs.msdn.com/jdbcteam
For any questions regarding the Microsoft JDBC driver, please feel free to post a question on this forum.
Jimmy Wu
SQL Server
New post SP3 hotfix roll-up package has several AI 1.0 fixes
Folks,
We just released a new hotfix bundle that includes several fixes for Asset Intelligence 1.0 (which shipped with SMS 2003 SP3). Please take a moment to read the Kb article which document which fixes are available and the two options you have for deploying them.
You can reach the article with this link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941395
Note that these are fixed in SCCM 2007 RTM and are therefore only needed for SMS 2003
Windows cannot access message when using Trend Micro 2007
If you recently did a windows update and are now getting an error message stating "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." This is when you try any acces programs like office, users, windows firewall etc.
I talked to Trend and the solution was to go into the Console and click on Virus and Spyware Control. Then click on Suspicious software alarm system, go to the exception list and allow explorer.exe or any other common files that might have been denied.
Good Luck
Robert
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Hey Robert, I am having the same problem after I allowed windowsupdate on 8/15/2007 to update some security fixes for IE7 as well as XP SP2. My situation is allowing this to happen accross my entire user community at home. I including my wife and a school login I have setup are exhibiting the same systems. I have done some google snooping and found that this problem has been around as long as Win-ME.
Since I don't have this Trend Micro product was there anything else that you might have done to help get rid of the problem?
Thanks in advance , , ,
Tom Johnson
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Robert,
thanks a bunch. This was the exact quick fix I needed. I build systems and repair them, and use a lot of Trend micro products, and this will come in handy.
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Many thanks Robert ... pinpointed the problem exactly.
I wish I had read your post before the backup/reformat that didn't resolve anything!
Cheers.
Nick H.
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Bug report - reporting services sql 2000
When you use a parameter named @reg this will result in an error when deployed.
rsReportParameterValueNotSet
Rename the parameter and everything will work fine.
Figa
Phoenix area Exchange User Group Next Week!
Oct 17th. for details visit:
http://www.culminisconnections.com/sites/PESUG/default.aspx
All who work with exchange are welcome!
Phoenix area Exchange User Group Meeting Next week
Oct 17th. for details visit:
http://www.culminisconnections.com/sites/PESUG/default.aspx
All who work with exchange are welcome!
Phoenix Exchange User Group Next Week!
Microsoft products don't play nice together
I am a contract programmer running Microsoft Windows Vista Business with Microsoft IE 7. I have an email account at one of my client companies. The vast majority of the company's computers are running XP Pro. The email was recently moved to Microsoft Exchange Server (2003?). The email clients are Microsoft Outlook Web Access.
I could not reply to or create a new message with IE7. (I could with Firefox). After some asking around and Googling, I found that I needed to install S/MIME control. I did that, and could then reply to a message. Once. IE 7 then crashed. I reboot, re-install S/MIME, try to pay attention to all the yellow bars, etc. -- no luck. More Googling. AHA! There is a "hotfix" to be applied to the Exchange Server. I discussed this with the network engineer who told me that it was a Vista thing (Other IE7 users on XP were not having a problem) and that he would not support Vista. (I don't blame him.) He suggested using regular Outlook 2003 which I tried, but I decided that I would rather use the web client in Firefox. (For one thing I am already using Outlook for my main email account, and switching is a pain.)
So in a nutshell, Microsoft's "latest and greatest" operating system and established Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook products do not play nice together. I would also like to point out that this problem will affect home users as they buy new Vista machines. Most of these people could not, and should not have to, troubleshoot this problem.
The solution is to use Firefox. Go figure.
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I think, your client uses illegal copy of Exchange 2000, and that is the reason the network engineer refuses to make a contact to Microsoft Customer Support Services to obtain the hotfix
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Doing SharePoint development on virtual machines
We're using virtual machines to do our SharePoint development and we ran into a nasty (hard to find) problem. When I first tried using SharePoint Solution Generator, I got an error saying that the Generator could not write to the export directory (which was C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\SharePoint Definitions\Enhanced Team Site). I was logged in as Administrator. I then tried to login as myself and do it, but this time I got System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException error. It turns out that unless you have administrator privileges, you don't have the rights to do anthing with the Solution Generator's SQLServer commands. You have to login as administrator and then add yourself to the Administrators group (Administrative Tools-> Active Directory Users and Computers, then click 'Member of' tab, then the 'Add' button, then type Administrators in the box and click 'OK'). Then logoff and log back in as yourself and try the Solution Generator again.
Parameter Defaults not updated when deploying from BIDS
Hi,
Ever since working with RS I had noticed that deploying reports felt inconsistent and didn't always seem to work, requiring sometimes for me to delete and re-deploy the reports before seeing changes applied. This has the knock on effect of generating new report ID's (GUID's) for the reports and any data in the ExecutionLog table for your reports becomes useless inhibiting effective usage reporting.
I never quite put my finger on exactly what the issue was until recently discovered that "by design" report paramerter defaults are not updated when deploying reports from BIDS. This is because MS envisaged that DBA's or Report Adminstrators would be responsible for changing parameter defaults and prompts once the reports are deployed.
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=100960&SiteID=1
I disagree and having discussed this with the product team here http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2181673&SiteID=1 it seems a sensible option would be to add a deployment option to the reporting services project definition similar to the OverwriteDataSources option.
I have posted a product feedback report on the Connect site https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=299372
Please vote for this to be added to Katmai (RS 2008).
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Don't be like the SSIS team and say "it is not possible to include this in Katmai" please wait until 201x......
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Domain
Cheers.
Reply:
Hi Kronik,
Please understand that this forum mainly focus on SteadyState related issues. As to create domain issue, I suggest that you post to the Windows Server public newsgroup:
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is that you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other customers who read the newsgroups regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.
For your reference, Small Business Server 2003 (SBS) may be a good choice to host a domain at home
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/default.mspx?info=EXLINK
In addition, f you would like to deploy SteadyState restrictions within your domain, please refer to the following thread:
http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsToolsandUtilities/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2013795&SiteID=69
Best Regards,
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Profile partially deleted
I'm going to do my best to describe this situation, because it doesn't happen everytime.
SteadyState is already installed and the locked down profile is called "all".
This system is a clone from an original image. The system is shipped out with the "all" profile left unlocked.
On the admin's desktop I have two batch files called lock and unlock. These two batch files import a .ssu file that has all restrictions removed, unlock.ssu, and the then custom settings for lock.ssu. The unlock batch file also gives the "all" user admin rights so that we can make changes easily to anything. The lock.bat removes the admin rights so the public user cannot do "admin things" (for lack of better words). Here is what the batch files look like.
lock.bat:
echo off
net localgroup administrators /delete all
cd\
cd\Program Files\Windows SteadyState
sctui.exe /Import all "" C:\locked.ssu
echo ***********************************************
echo * *
echo * ALL profile is now LOCKED and admin *
echo * rights REMOVED. *
echo * *
echo ***********************************************
pause
unlock.bat
echo off
net localgroup administrators /add all
cd\
cd\Program Files\Windows SteadyState
sctui.exe /Import all "" C:\unlocked.ssu
echo ***********************************************
echo * *
echo * ALL profile is now unlocked and has admin *
echo * rights. Remember to lock the profile *
echo * when done modifying. *
echo * *
echo ***********************************************
pause
Now SOMETIMES when you run the unlock batch file it "partially" deletes the "all" user. The all.orig folder is still under Documents and Settings, but if you go to Control Panel and User Accounts, "all" is not listed! If you try to add back the "all" user, it really fouls things up. So then you are left to recreate the user, but that calls for a spiritual cleaning (as one of my co-workers called it). So here are my questions.
1. When is the all.orig folder created?
2. Is the all.orig folder changed to just all (with no .orig after it) when it is unlocked?
3. Is there something wrong with my batch file (please say no, because they will tar and feather me if there is 8| )?
Hope to find out what is going on because we have LOTS more systems to install (we are talking hundreds)!
Thanks
Reply:
Hi East-TN,
Here are my answers:
1. When is the all.orig folder created?
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When a user profile is locked. <username>.orig is used to store the original user profile. A temporary profile folder with user name will be created when user logs on.
2. Is the all.orig folder changed to just all (with no .orig after it) when it is unlocked?
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Yes. Unless all.orig cannot be renamed due to some reason such as being locked by some other programs. We can try the following steps to troubleshoot this kind of issue:
a. Install UPHClean on the problematic client.
User Profile Hive Cleanup Service
b. When this issue happens, check if all.org folder can be renamed or deleted manually.
3. Is there something wrong with my batch file (please say no, because they will tar and feather me if there is 8| )?
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Based on my test, it works on my computer. It should be correct.
As to the "all account cannot be found under Control Panel -> User Accounts" issue, I would like to confirm the following question first:
1. Did this issue occur on other accounts?
2. Did this issue found under account "all" or other user account ?
Based on my experience, this kind of issue can occur if a user profile is disabled. Please check this with steps below:
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a. Log on as an administrator account.
b. Click Start, right click "My Computer" and then click Manage.
c. Click Local Users and Group -> Users.
d. Please check if account all is here. Double click to open the user profile to check if it has been disabled.
As I know, if you have Windows Disk Protection (WDP) enabled, SteadyState will temporarily disable local user accounts to prevent unapproved disk changes from being saved at the same time.
Best Regards,
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I have not had a chance to try these suggestions yet. Although I did have a co-worker tell me today that after she got everything set up and working right. She installed Cyber-Sitter and then rebooted the system. When she logged into the admin account the "all" profile was gone from the user list. A folder named "all.%computername%" was there instead. There was no folder with .orig in the Documents and Settings folder.
P.S. - Somehow this post got marked as being an answer...
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Reply:
Hi,
As this thread has been quiet for a while, I though you have got this issue fixed.
As to the "all.%computername%" folder, it can be a temporary profile folder. Please create a new profile from SteadyState and then lock it to check if issue also occurs on other accounts. If issue persists, we can consider performing a Clean Boot to disable third party programs which may cause this issue.
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1. Click Start, go to Run, and type "msconfig" in the open box to start the System Configuration Utility.
2. Click the Services tab, check the "Hide All Microsoft Services" box and click Disable All. Select "
3. Click the Startup tab, click Disable All and click OK.
4. Create locked user profile again.
By the way, I would like to confirm if User Profile Hive Cleanup Service has been installed and there is no other problem when using SteadyState.
Regards,
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Here is what I have discovered so far...
If the ALL user has a password and my unlock/lock batch files do not have that password (by default it has double quotes for NO password), running either the lock or unlock batch file will cause the ALL user to be deleted. The command prompt screen that is up when doing the import reports that the password is incorrect and to hit Enter to continue. I go check the list of users in SteadyState and in the user list under Computer Management and it is gone. The ALL folder or ALL.orig folder is still there though. It seems that if the import script runs into any errors it deletes the user that is to be imported. Please see if you can re-create this same problem by doing this.
1. Give the user a password.
2. DO NOT change the unlock or lock batch file to match the password just leave the double quotes in.
3. I bring up the Computer Management window and can actually watch the user disappear from the list.
I know the simple solution would be to make sure that we have the password is in the batch file, but by design I think it should not delete the user, but just give you the error message.
I haven't confirmed any other way that I can make the user disappear, but I think this isn't the only way this is happening.
Thanks
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Reply:
Hi East-TN,
Thank you for your sharing and continuous efforts. I have tested with your steps. However, it seems everything works in my current test. I have included my steps for your reference:
1. Create user "All" from SteadyState (with password a), lock it and import it to Locked.ssu. Delete the user profile from SteadyState.
2. Create user "All" again (with password b), configure No Restrictions on it. Open "Control userpasswords2" and configure it into administrators group. Import it to Unlocked.ssu. Delete the user profile from SteadyState.
3. Run Locked.bat. User "All" can be found from Computer Management window. Folder All.orig appears under C:\Document and Settings.
4. Run Unlocked.bat. User "All" can also be found from Computer Management window. Folder "All" replaces All.orig under Document and Settings folder.
As the SSU file will not store user's password, the issue should be caused by other factors instead of password configurations.
Based on my further research, I suspect when the issue occurs, some files under "All" profile folder have been locked. The NET command can run properly to delete/add user name from the system. However, it will not delete/add user profile folders under Documents and Settings (this is by design). When running the import command, it will try to delete the All's user profile to a new one. However, as some files have been locked, this command was not completed. Thus, user "All" was not created and we cannot find it from the system either.
If this issue occurs in the future, I recommend trying to delete the profile folder first. If the profile folder cannot be deleted, it should be the root cause. We can unlock the profile with some tools such as Unlocker, which can also find which program is using the user profile.
Unlocker 1.8.5
http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
Please Note: The third-party product discussed here is manufactured by a company that is independent of Microsoft. We make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or reliability.
Best Regards,
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