Some Notes on the Machines

For Windows 7:

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/file-asso-fixes-for-windows-7/

For Vista:

http://www.winhelponline.com/articles/105/1/File-association-fixes-for-Windows-Vista.html

For XP:

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/file_assoc.htm

Here are a large number of changes to try if Windows 7 sharing doesn’t work:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/68ffbe2a-09a7-4e29-859c-ca1aaf75dcd1

When one clicks a link in events in Windows Server 2003, one should see a window come up with help. If this doesn’t work, the ‘Help and Support’ service is having problems. If the service exists, stop it, and then:

CD %windir%\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries
HelpSvc.exe /regserver /svchost netsvcs /RAInstall
HSCUpd.exe -i hscmui.cab
HSCUpd.exe -i hscsp_s3.cab 

…try this:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2012/05/18/remote-web-access-is-not-allowed-for-your-user-account.aspx

OU names, usernames, group names, et cetera, can NOT have slashes in them!!!

…try this:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2012/05/18/remote-web-access-is-not-allowed-for-your-user-account.aspx

OU names, usernames, group names, et cetera, can NOT have slashes in them!!!

The following:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35

provides a thorough DirectX updater for Windows 7. It downloads and updates quite a wide variety of items. If you have a game or application missing a DirectX file, try this.

If you find that mapped drives disconnect without rhyme or reason, go here and do what Liz found for all of us:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297684

If you get an error like “The module … owssvr.dll could not be loaded due to a configuration problem”, e.g. having to do with IIS and Sharepoint (including Microsoft Search Server 2010), try going into IIS manager, under Application Pools, and open up Advanced Settings for each of the items which may be malfunctioning. You’ll see “Enable 32-bit Applications”, and if that’s set to “True” on a 64-bit server, that’s the problem, set it to “False” and you’re probably in!

Here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2008/08/28/8904493.aspx

is a tool, by a Microsoft rep, which will reliably remove .NET frameworks. Very useful when the uninstallers fail. However, any other .NET frameworks you are using on the machine will probably need reinstalling, and the author recommends the following:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2008/03/07/8108332.aspx

be done first.

Often Windows Updates will do it. However, sometimes one has to run ‘webfldrs.msi’ and uncheck the last four options:

http://www.networksteve.com/enterprise/topic.php/Cannot_save_new_Office_document_with_spaces_in_filename_to_Share/?TopicId=25091&Posts=0