Monthly Archives: February 2012

Terminal server, Redirected folders and PDF Creator problems

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Today i have installed the programs PDF Creator on a Terminal servers, Windows 2008 R2. But it will only run under the administrators account.

Some search for errors lead me to that it could be that PDF Creator creates is temp files under <temp>\PDFCreator, but my user have redirected folders, so it was under a network shares. It seams that PDFCreator have some troubles with this, so I change the temp location in the registry database, and its now working for my users.

You need to change:

KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PDFCreator\Program\PrinterTemppath
“PrinterTemppath”=”<temp>PDFCreator\”

Changed the value to “C:\PDFCreator\”

Change also:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\PDFCreator\Program\
“PrinterTemppath”=”<temp>PDFCreator\

Changed the value to “C:\PDFCreator\”

Then create a folder on c:\ with the name of PDFCreator, and set security so that all yours terminal servers users have modify access to this folders.

 

 

Windows 7 / Office 2010 get serial key from registry

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For personale use only, use this programs:

http://kennethdalbjerg.dk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/siw-setup.exe

With this programs you can get the Serial key from you installed Windows 7 or Office 2010:

http://kennethdalbjerg.dk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/produkey.zip

The product is code by:

ProduKey v1.53
Copyright (c) 2005 – 2011 Nir Sofer
Web Site: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

It can get the serial for this products:

* Microsoft Windows 98/ME
* Microsoft Windows 2000
* Microsoft Windows NT
* Microsoft Windows XP
* Microsoft Windows Vista
* Microsoft Windows Server 2003
* Microsoft Windows 7 (Works only for some of the Windows 7 versions,
see the known problems section)
* Microsoft Office 2000 (Only ProductID is displayed)
* Microsoft Office 2003
* Microsoft Office 2007
* Microsoft Office 2010
* Microsoft SQL Server 2000
* Microsoft SQL Server 2005
* Microsoft Exchange Server 2000
* Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

 

Known Problems
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* When running produkey.exe, Some Antivirus programs displays an alert
and/or block you from running it. Click here to read more about false
alerts in Antivirus programs
* For some Windows 7/2008 licenses, the product key is not stored in
the Registry, and thus ProduKey cannot retrieve them. In these cases,
ProduKey will display ‘Product key was not found’ in the product key
column.
* If you bought your computer with installed operating system, you may
find the Windows product key appeared in ProduKey utility is different
from the product key on your Windows CD. This problem is mostly
reported with Dell computers.
* From unknown reason, the product key of Visual Stuido .NET is written
in the Registry as Office XP product…
* In old versions of Office (Office 2000 and below), the ‘Product Key’
value is not available.

Xencenter / Xenserver This operation cannot be performed because the specified VDI could not be found on the storage substrate

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Today i got this when i was trying to start a VDI on my Xenceter.

This operation cannot be performed because the specified VDI could not be found on the storage substrate

This was because of that i have a CDrom mounted on a CIFS shares that isn’t available anymore, after remove the ISO, the VDI start perfects again.

 

Failed to import the OVF Package. Xenserver / Xenconvert

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I have a problem converting a VHD to a virtual machine to an Xenserver.
When lokking at the logs i got this: Failed to import the OVF Package.

It was because my Default Storage was fill.
When change the Default storage at my XenCenter it was working fine again.

First change the show to “Folder View”

Select Types.


Then select a storage ether under Remote Storage Repositories or Local Storage Repositories.
Right click on it and set it as default.