By default System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM) uses the drive which has the most free space left to store the packages. To avoid SCCM storing of packages on the system drive, you can create a file on the root of the system drive, called no_sms_on_drive.sms.
Now you’re sure that the system drive will not be used by SCCM!
Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is available.
Download details Update Rollup 1 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (KB972076)
What a great day for me….I passed the 70-662 TS: Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring! After two hours I pressed the END button, and finished with a score of 907/1000.
The last few mounths Exchange 2010 was my daily thing! Building…..building…..building and again building, this was the best preparing for me! A lot of things I’ve seen in Berlin at the TechEd, so I was ready to rock! 
A cool new feature in Exchange 2010 is to add a signature to your e-mail based on Active Directory information. So if you fill in the correct information in the Active Directory, the signature will be automatically added to your e-mail. You need to follow these steps:
With the following registry key, you can remove the Network from Windows Explorer. Users cannot browse the network anymore.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\NonEnum\{F02C1A0D-BE21-4350-88B0-7367FC96EF3C}]=dword:00000001
Today i’ve setup a new Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services environment. When I configure the GPO “force classic start menu”, all users have the icons “Libraries” and “Control Panel” available on the desktop. You can fix this problem to delete the following resgistry keys:
1.) Make a local user on the server (Windows Server 2008 R2 in my environment)
2.) Make the user member of the local administrators group on your server
3.) Login in with this user and customize for example the start menu
4.) Logoff and login again with an administrator account
5.) Create a share on your file server. For example \\SRV-RDSDC-01\TSmandatory
6.) For share permissions choose Everyone Full Control, NTFS permissions choose Authenticated Users Read
7.) Turn off Caching on this share
8.) Copy the complete template folder from the C:\Users directory to the new TSmandatory share
9.) Rename the template folder to TSmandatory.V2
You have to add the .V2 in the name of your folder, because it’s the new profile type in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2!
10.) Delete the Local and LocalLow folders from the AppData folder
11.) The next step is to add the right permissions on the mandatory profile
12.) Open REGEDIT and load the NTUSER.DAT hive
13.) Right-click on the TS Mandatory profile and choose permissions
14.) Delete the template user and add the Authenticated Users (Full Control)
15.) Unload the NTUSER.DAT from your registry
16.) Rename the NTUSER.DAT to NTUSER.MAN
17.) When you configure a GPO to specify the location of the Mandatory profile, you’ve to choose to following location:
\\SRV-RDSDC-01\TSmandatory\TSmandatory without the .V2!
With this nice tool you’re able to manage your Windows 2008 R2 server Core Edition through a graphical user interface. This tool is open source, so if you want something more in it, go ahead!
Core Configuration tasks include:
- Product Licensing
- Networking Features
- DCPromo Tool
- ISCSI Settings
- Server Roles and Features
- User and Group Permissions
- Share Creation and Deletion
- Dynamic Firewall settings
- Display | Screensaver Settings
- Add & Remove Drivers
- Proxy settings
- Windows Updates (Including WSUS)
- Multipath I/O
-Hyper-V including virtual machine thumbnails
- JoinDomain and Computer rename
- Add/remove programs
- Services
- WinRM
-Complete logging of all commands executed
You can download the tool here.
