Tag Archives: Windows Server

Remote desktop scanning software

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I am sure many of you have heard for Microsoft RemoteFX USB Redirection which allows you to redirect your local USB devices like scanners to you Terminal Server, or some other remote machine on Windows, through the Remote Desktop connection.

But what if your client or remote machine doesn’t support RemoteFX, or if you are unable to install the drivers for your scanner on the remote machine.

In that case you can use third-party software like Terminal Works TSScan.

TSScan_Download

It works by installing the Server and the Client side of the install packages on the local and remote machine.

You install the client package on the local machine where you have scanner drivers installed, and you install the server package to the Terminal Server or some other remote Windows machine which is at the end of your remote desktop connection.

Once you have installed the client on the local machine and the server package on your remote desktop server you will get a new application TSScan on your desktop and in your Start Menu which should give you the selection of the locally installed scanners that you have on the client machine. You should also be able to see all of your client scanners directly in any kind of image acquiring software that you might have installed on your server.

Operating Systems that are supported for TSScan Server are Windows 2008 R2 Server, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
Operating Systems that are supported for TSScan Client are Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Embedded.

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How to map client certificates in IIS 7 through graphical user interface

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As you may know if you want to map client certificates to IIS 7 for authentication purposes, you must use the editor by default, as described in this blog.

If you want to have the IIS 6 like option of mapping the certificates through UI, you cam checkout this blog, and download the ClientCertificateMapping extension for IIS 7.

After installing the extension you will get new Client Certificates option in the IIS right side window

Client Certificates UI option

which will open a window like this one

Mapping menu of Client Certificates UI option

 

Windows 2008 server hangs at “Applying user settings”, services not working

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Today I had a problem with one of my test servers that was running Windows 2008, I was doing some work with IIS and certificates and after rebooting I wasn’t able to connect to it with Remote Desktop, also I wasn’t able to connect to the web sites that were on it, but it responded to ping requests.

When I tried to connect to it locally, after entering username and password it would just stay on the “Applying user settings” screen.

"Applying user settings" screen

"Applying user settings" screen

 

The solution to this is very simple:

  1. Either wait for you server to eventually finish the logon process or reboot it in the safe mode with F8
  2. Open registry editor with regedit
  3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP and create the following Multi-string value: DependOnService
  4. Double click the entry, enter CRYPTSVC in the Value Data field and click OK
  5. Reboot your server to Normal mode

You can also solve the problem with the Hotfix available from Microsoft.

NOTE: the KB article states that this happens on Windows Vista and Server 2008 with Service Pack 2, but in my case I had Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1.

 

Hyper-V server Event ID 3112: The virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running – How to fix

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Today I was encountered with a problem with one of the computers that was running Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V. When I would try to start any of the virtual machines installed on it I would get the following error:

The virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running

I instinctively checked the BIOS if VT is enabled and it was.

When looking in the Event Viewer I would see Event ID 3112 so I started looking the Technet for other possible errors on that ID.

The problem for me was in BCD (Boot Configuration Data) and Intel VT-d (Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O), I needed to enable VT-d and put hypervisor in Boot Configuration Data to autolaunch with the following command (you need to run cmd as an Administrator with elevated privileges):

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto

Here is a little checklist if you get this kind of error:

  1. Check if Intel VT or AMD-V hardware extensions are supported on your CPU and are enabled in BIOS
  2. Check if No eXecute (NX) for AMD and eXecute Disable (XD) for Intel CPU are enabled in BIOS
  3. Check your BCD with bcdedit (the problem for me was, that it was a classroom computer with dual boot Windows 7/Server 2008, and the BCD was changed with Win 7 reinstallation)
  4. Check if Intel VT-d and Trusted Execution are enabled/disabled (This one is little strange to me, because if you look here it states it needs to be disabled, but for me I had to enable VT-d in BIOS)
  5. Check if you enabled Hibernation or Sleep on your server, it changes your “hvboot” registry value. Try to start it in elevated Command Prompt with command: 
    net start hvboot

 

Hope this helps somebody, because I got a little frustrated with this error today