Install Terminal server on Windows Server 2008R2 DC

For the first thing, I want to underline that installing a terminal server on a domain controller is not a best practice and is not a very good idea. But in some cases, in small environments, where you have maybe only one or two servers, you have no choice and you must to do that.
It’s not a problem to install a rule, but you will have a problem when you will try to logon through terminal services with a user who is not an administrator. There you will receive the error that this user is not the administrator and it has no logon true terminal services rights. On a non-DC server, this is simple to solve in local users and groups console, but this users and also the console is disabled on a DC.
You must do that in gpedit.msc. There you have to enable Allow Logon through Terminal services right to the desired group of users (look at the picture).

 

You must think also about the printing issue. There is a security issue on Spool folder, because the user does not have sufficient rights on it. To solve this problem, you must open a Command prompt as Administrator and go to the folder C:WindowsSystem32spool. Here you have to run the command Cacls.exe PRINTERS /e /g users:C and restart the computer. Now you are able to print.

Good luck..

Windows 7 and RAW (NEF) Formats

If you are using a DSLR camera and you like to make photos only in RAW or NEF format, you have problems to preview photos and view thumbs of them. There are a lot programs to solve that problem, among them is also the Microsoft Camera Codec Pack. It exists for the 32 and the 64 bit version of Windows 7 and it will resolve your problem. You can download this software form here..

Windows 7 Home versions and password expiration

As you know in Windows 7 Professional versions is easy to manage password expiration and other user settings through Local users and Groups console. But this console is unavailable on Windows 7 Home versions, so you must do that using other ways. One of that is through the command prompt (you must run it as Administrator). There is a command net accounts and with switch maxpwage you can define time to change the password.
If you want to set the password never expires, you must type net account /maxpwage:unlimited.
Of course you can use this command for many other user settings. You can find detailed information here..