Vaccano's questions

We have a few critical service accounts at my company. Occasionally someone attempts to login to one of these who should not. (Not nefarious, just trying to get a job done the wrong way.)

After a few failed attempts to login the account gets locked out. And ... bad things ... happen.

Is there a way in Active Directory to setup a User such that it will totally ignore a login attempt unless it comes from a white list of server names?

Note: By "totally ignore", I mean it can't login and can't be locked out by failed attempts.

I am trying to retrofit an existing VM that runs Windows Server 2008 R2 to allow some application testing.

What I need is to support Aero over Remote Desktop. I have read that to do that I need the Desktop Session Host (RDSH) role.

But the tutorials I have seen for that involve active directory and the domain controller. Interaction with either of those requires paperwork and a lot of wait time at my company.

Is there some way I can turn this one without needing elevated rights to either of those?

(I have basic "ASK" rights for Active Directory and the VM is part of the domain already.)

I have TFS 2010 RTM installed on my production server and on all my build agents. (Meaning I have what was initially released as TFS 2010, no service packs or updates.)

I would like to upgrade my server to the latest TFS 2010 SP1 with the Cumulative Update 1.

To get there I first have to install TFS 2010 SP1 on my prod server. I then have to install TFS 2010 Cumulative Update 1.

Here is my Question:

If I install TFS 2010 SP1 on my prod server and then install TFS 2010 Cumulative Update 1, are all my build agents going to stop being able to talk to my server? If so, will they stop working right when I install TFS 2010 SP1?

Basically, I am wondering if I need a multi computer down time. I would like to just update my Prod Server then go back and update the build agents later (if needed).

What is the compatibility levels between Build Agents running TFS 2010 RTM and a Server running TFS 2010 SP1 with Cumulative Update 1?

I have a lot of Sharepoint sites that I need to setup permissions on. Manually opening each site and adding users takes a lot of time. It is also tedious as these users are usually the same ones across many (but not all) of the sites.

Is there a way to group manage these sites (without inherited permissions)?

I have seen a few programs out there that do it, but they are not free. Normally that would not be too much of a problem, but my company has put out a purchasing freeze. So I have no hope of buying any tools for this.

Before I spend all that time manually updating each site, I thought I would see if there is a free tool out there that helps me do this.

My company has moved to TFS 2010. We have a new Sharepoint server (Sharepoint 2010 with Enterprise Client Access License) for our new TFS Server.

But there are a lot of documents we would like to move from our old Sharepoint v3.0 server. We don't want to move all the documents, but we do want to move a lot of them.

I had heard that Explorer View can make this easy, but I tried this and it does not seem to work for our Sharepoint v3.0 server (even after I enabled and started the "WebClient" service on the server).

So, my question is this: Is there an easy way to move/copy large amounts of Documents (only documents) from a Sharepoint v3.0 site to Sharepoint 2010 site?

I ran TFS Destroy on a file that was too long.

But I forgot to add the /startcleanup command. It is now several days later and the file is still referenced in the TFS Database (or so says my migration tool).

The docs say that the cleanup defaults to run daily. However, it seems to have not run. I can't delete it again with the startcleanup command.

So how can I force TFS to clean that up now?

I setup a virtual machine to host a dev version of TFS (to test plugins on).

Getting a computer on my work domain requires large amounts of red tape and paperwork that I would rather not do.

I created my own domain the the VM and I would like to trust all users from my work domain on that VM Domain. But when I tried to setup the trust I needed a password from my work domain (which I don't have).

Am I trying to do something nefarious? I just want to be able to authenticate to my Test TFS (VM) Server as me (my login on my work domain).

Is there a way to do that with out having to have a domain level password for my work domain?

(My VM is a Windows Server 2008 R2 server)

My company has been using TFS 2008 and Scrum For Team System V2 for a good while and we really like it.

Now we want to move to TFS 2010, but we have heard bad things about Scrum For Team System V3. Namely that it causes you to change your processes too much.

After looking at Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 I think it is a good match for our processes.

How can I change my projects to use TFS 2010 and Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0?

I need to add a user to the "Team Foundation Service Accounts" group in TFS to be able to run the TFS Integration Tool.

I am an administrator on both the machine running TFS and the TFS Install (ie I am in the TFS Administrators group).

When I try to do that using the Team Foundation Server Administration Console the add option is grayed out.

Any ideas on how to do this?

I am trying to create a new Project and I get the following Error:

Explanation
The permissions granted your user name and ID on the SQL Server Reporting Services at mytfserver\DefaultCollection do not allow you create a new project. You must be granted specific permissions by the server administrator.

User Action
Contact the Administrator for the SQL Server Reporting Services at mytfserver\DefaultCollection and ask that the permission "Content Manager" be added to your user Account.

I have checked and double checked. I have given my user all the permissions possible on my Reporting services (Browser, Content Manager, My Reports, Publisher, Report Builder, TFS Content Manager). I have also made my user a "System Administrator" for my Reporting Services.

My user is a member of MyDomain\Domain Admins and I have made that group and my user a local admin on the server and members of the TFS Administrators group. I have also added them to admin the share point services (though that seems to be working alright).

Configuration
Running Win 2008 SP2: Installed apps: SQL 2008, SCVMM (R1)
   Hosting: Win 2008 SP2: Installed apps: SQL 2008, TFS 2010 (and dependent items)
   Hosting: Windows 7 Ultimate: Installed Apps: Visual Studio Team Suite 2010 (And dependant items) Everything has been freshly installed in the last 48 hours.

I am trying to install TFS 2010 Beta 1 on Windows Server 2008 R2.

When the installer runs runs I only have the option of installing the build server. All the other configuration steps are missing.

I have followed the steps at http://blogs.msdn.com/dstfs/archive/2009/05/15/installing-tfs-2010-on-windows-server-2008-r2-rc.aspx for setting up TFS 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Anyone have any other ideas why this is broken?

OK, so I am going to level, I am a software engineer trying to do the work of a System Admin.

I asked a question about overriding password policies and got an answer that sounded right, but that I did not understand how to do.

Basically it told me to apply a policy change at the ou level on the computer in question. I have never had to apply a policy of any kind.

Is anyone out there willing to help out a newbie with a step by step of how to do this. (See the other question for a reason why I am doing this.)

I have one Windows Server 2003 VM that I need to disable the Password Complexity policy for Local users on. I still want the Active Directory users to use the domain Password Complexity Policy.

Is there a way to do this?

[More background info for those who are curious: I am going to be using the users on the server as an authentication piece for a 3rd party tool. The local users will have no rights on the machine. They just need to exist to authenticate against. Because the 3rd party tool is for mobile devices, I don't want my users to have to type in complex passwords. (It would quickly become tedious on a mobile device.)]

I wanted to install the new SCVMM 2008 R2 RC, so I thought I would uninstall SCVMM 2008 to do a clean install.

When I try to uninstall it I get the following message:

[Window Title] Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008

[Main Instruction] Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 has stopped working

[Content] A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

[Close program]

After which the uninstaller closes and I can't remove the program. (I have tried it with the Local Admin, and 2 different domain users. (one that installed the software and 1 that was used (on the first install) as the login used for the Agent.)) I have also tried it with both Retaining and removing data.

I also tried turning off the VMM Service to see if that would help (it does not)

In short, I am stuck with this program until I format the drive. (Booo!)

I thought I would try to upgrade instead of doing a fresh install, but that fails as well. It says it can't connect to the SQL DB. That does not surprise me because it is not there (I am guessing the partial uninstall caused it to be removed.)

I may have to format and try again, but I thought I would ask around first.

[LATER NOTE: I thought I would try to do a repair on the original install, but when I ran the installer again (from the disk) it just started up the Uninstaller instead. (The uninstaller failed as indicated above.)]

Does anyone know how to move the page file on Windows Server 2008. Everything seems to be in a different spot on this OS!

Also, I would like to tweak it's size. If you know where that is (probably in the same spot) please let me know.

I am trying to install Virtual Machine Manager so I can test out the Lab Mananger portion of VS2010.

The Virtual Machine Manager Requires a Domain to install to. Is there an easy way to setup a domain that will satisfy this requirement? It would just be a domain for my server to join (no other computers would be joining it).

Background info if you are interested: My server is a Windows Server 2008 x64. The server is not on site with my company's domain. I had planned to use a VPN (Cisco VPN Client 5) to connect to my company domain. However, Cisco VPN Client 5 does not support x64, and I don't have the newer version that does. (And I am not knowledgeable enough about VPNs to configure one of the free ones (like ShrewSoft).)

I have a 64 bit Windows Server 2008 machine that I want to run the Cisco Systems VPN Client 5 on.

It will not run because it says it does not support 32 bit. Is there a way to fire this off under 32 bit mode? Is there such a thing as 32 bit mode?

(I know there are similar questions out there, but I read through them and none of them worked for me.)

I have a fairly fresh install of Windows Server 2008.

When I right click on the C: drive and view properties, it says I have used 25.2 GB, but when I select all the contents of the C: drive and view properties it says that the size (and Size on disk) are 17 GB.

Any idea where the other 8 GB could have gone?

I am trying to install sharepoint 2007 enterprise with SP1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 RC 64 bit.

I am getting a compatibility error. Here is the text:

[Window Title] Program Compatibility Assistant

[Main Instruction] This program is blocked due to compatibility issues

[Expanded Information] You must install Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Please read Microsoft Knowledge Base article: 962935 with the most recent service pack. Office SharePoint Server 2007 - Please read Microsoft Knowledge Base article: 962935 without service packs has a known compatibility issue with this version of Windows.

I can't find this KB article. I have the most recent SP installer available with my MSDN subscription.

Any ideas?

I have a Guest VM on a VMWare Server (version 1) that I need to have more disk space. Is there a way to grow it's virtual disk or add another?

The Host OS is Windows XP 32 Bit. The Guest OS is Windows Server 2008 R2 RC 64 Bit.