Yet Another IT Professional Blog

One of our users was having bizarre problems with her account. We tried to troubleshoot to find out what was causing the real issue but nothing was clear. Before I even tell you what the reason was, let me tell you first what the symptoms were. First user reports that she has a warning when she logs onto her computer.   I confirmed that she was getting a Windows 7 balloon warning “ Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile ”. When you browse Event Viewer , Windows Logs\Application , you should see another error with the error ID 1521 with a description “Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you log off. This error may be caused by network problems or insufficient security rights.” Just these 2 symptoms were indicating a Roaming Profile issue, which makes sense because the user is part of an OU, which roaming...

Deploying Java 7 Update 5 through your Organization with GPO and Scripts… Java is a critical component for your computer. A lot of software and web sites rely on the existing of Java on your computer. Probably, without even noticing, you are using Java either for playing Online games, or printing a document or using an application on a smartphone… While Java is a great technology and widely used, it can be harmful for your computer if you don’t keep it up to date. Because Java is an environment where it can execute commands, Oracle is working on the software in order to correct all the security issues. If you are responsible for your workstations on your company, than you are directly responsible to deploy and keep up to date Java. I consider Java as it’s a part of the OS. Speaking of the devil, Oracle has just updated Java to version 7 Update 5. Here, I’ll explain how to deploy this version to all of your computers at your company whether an older version is already installed...

UltraVNC is a “must have” tool for “Help Desk” IT stuff. Without this tool, I will have to get up from my chair to go and see a non-critical message that appears on user’s system. Just to press “Enter” for the user. With a VNC application well setup, I could connect to the any user’s screen from my desk with the help of 2-3 clicks. I will explain you how you can setup VNC servers/clients in your enterprise so you can be lazier and be more efficient from your desk. There is more than 1 way to accomplish this task. I’ll use a method where an “Active Directory” is a requirement. Please read this entire article before preceding your deployment. Minimum requirements; -           Active Directory Infrastructure -           Newest UltraVNC software (Download from HERE ) -           Text Editor Software (I use Notepad++ but Notepad or any other...

  PowerShell is known with its power of Active Directory management. If you really into simplifying your daily complicated time consuming tasks, this might be very interesting for you. Lately, for a small project I needed to make a list of all the users in a “Security Group” in Active Directory. The security group is called “Color Printing” and we had about 20 users in that “Security Group”. I did not want to write down all the names one by one in a excel sheet so I’ve started to make a research about how to export the list of users in security group. I know that when your users are only in an “Organization Unit”, it’s very easy to do this task, but when it’s a security group, you don’t have the “Export” option. Here what I found to complete a task of this kind! You can download free cmdlets from http://www.quest.com/powershell/activeroles-server.aspx for “Active Directory” management tasks. Once the right setup is downloaded and installed in your computer (in my case X64 version...