HP Printers – “Printer driver is not installed” on Windows 2008 R2

Recently I migrated all our printers from a Server 2003 R2 x32 print server to Server 2008 R2 (x64). During this upgrade all the printers had x64 drivers added and their security settings checked. However, I kept experiencing problems in Print Management with the HP printers reporting the Printer driver is not installed, even after [...]

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Migrating DHCP reservations from Novell to Microsoft

We are gradually migrating our core services from Netware to Windows Server 2003 and 2008. As part of this migration we needed to migrate all our DHCP reservations stored on our Novell servers to Windows Servers.

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Local Intranet Problems with Internet Explorer 7 and Novell

Local Intranet Problems with Internet Explorer 7 and Novell

When you install Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 it may display a security warning when you access applications and files stored on Novell drive mappings if it does not consider them part of your local intranet. It may also prevent MS Access from opening databases from the network as [...]

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XMing X Server

This is a free X Server that is great for managing Linux servers using SSH and PuTTY from a Windows PC. http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ I wrote an article at Cool Solutions on Remote Management using SSH and X-Forwarding that gives some idea of its use. Tags: Linux, Management, Servers, X server, X11

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