Month: April 2012

One of the SMB150 winners!

Published on in Management, Virtualization, Windows, Windows SBS Server by Elvis
Thanks to everyone who helped me to be one of the SMB 150 Influencers for 2012, the event organized by SMB Nation and SMB Technology Network. I am very excited about this. On SMB 150 site you can read “The SMB 150 honors individuals who have made a significant impact on the worldwide small and medium business (SMB) channel” and I am very happy to be part of this story and to know, that I am doing a good job. Thanks again to my supporters!

 

SMB_150_Winners_Press_Release.pdf (266.62 kb).

Disable screen saver, enabled with group policy (Windows 7)

Published on in Windows, Windows Server by Elvis

Of course, at the beginning, you must exclude the computer from the region where the policy is applied. If the policy is still active at the computer, you cannot change any setting applied with GP.
After GP is disabled, you must change few values in the registry:

  • 1. The registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem
    • ScreenSaverActive for Enable (1) or Disable (0) screen saver
    • ScreenSaverIsSecure for Enable (1) or Disable (0) password protected screen saver
    • ScreenSaveTimeOut for number of seconds that the screen saver will be going on
  • 2. The registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USERControl PanelDesktop – I suggest to view and set up the same values also here (keys are very similar), but this is not a group policy setting; it is a normal windows setting.

Remark 1: I found in some cases also an another registry key to be modified: HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePolicesMicrosoftWindowsControl PanelDesktop. Please look also at this point..

Error 503 when browsing companyweb on SBS 2011

Published on in Windows SBS Server by Elvis

This is just another case, when you will receive “HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable”.
In my case I have started form this warning:

Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-User Profiles General
Event ID: 1509
Level: Warning
User: DOMAINspwebabb
Description: Windows cannot copy file ?C:UsersDefaultAppDataLocalMicrosoftExchange Serverv14Configuration5464_100.sqm to location ?C:UsersTEMP.DOMAIN.001AppDataLocalMicrosoftExchange Serverv14Configuration5464_100.sqm. This error may be caused by network problems or insufficient security rights.
DETAIL – Access is denied.

At first sight I ignored this issue (it seems to be an Exchange problem),but when I look into the username,I saw it was a SharePoint related problem. To repair it, you must give to the reported file sufficient rights. You can do this by going to the specified folder, right click on the file and select the properties. On the Security tab click Advanced and Continue on the warning. When the dialog box is open, the only thing you have to do is to check the “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent” checkbox. Close all the windows with OK and from the Administrative command prompt type IISReset /noforce.
That’s all..