Starting Office Outlook 2007 in a Terminal Services environment, many of my users reported receiving the following error:

Microsoft Office Outlook cannot provide form scripting support. This feature is not available. To make this feature available, run Setup again, click "Add or remove Features" and change the feature to "Run from My Computer"

The solution for the issue is really quite simple. You must copy the file Outlvbs.dll from a non-terminal services install of Office Enterprise 2007, typically in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\ to the same directory on the Terminal Server. Once there, copy/paste the following lines into a reg file and import it:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\D5F662842F9AB9B43AC8199855FE5B0C] "00002109030000000000000000F01FEC"="C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\Office12\\OUTLVBS.DLL"

Re-open Outlook and the error should be gone!

Source: Google Groups

Last night I performed some Windows Updates on my Exchange 2007 Server with Windows 2003 Standard R2 x64.  The update seemed to break ActiveSync with errors repeating in my Application log every 10-20 seconds, such as:

Event Type:    Warning
Event Source:    ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0
Event Category:    Web Event
Event ID:    1310
Date:        12/11/2007
Time:        9:38:20 AM
User:        N/A
Computer:    CALVIN
Description:
Event code: 3008
Event message: A configuration error has occurred.
Event time: 12/11/2007 9:38:20 AM
Event time (UTC): 12/11/2007 5:38:20 PM
Event ID: 14bcfeecf45a444fb846b8a62a87d674
Event sequence: 1
Event occurrence: 1
Event detail code: 0


I was unable to load the Intelligent Mail Filter version 2 (IMFv2) that is included with Exchange Service 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) since IMFv1 was still present.  Since I had not originally installed IMFv1, I could not see it in the list of Add/Remove Programs and a manual uninstall was required.  The following article at Microsoft describes how to do this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995865.aspx


The specific event ID I received is also listed on the site:

Event ID: 7514

Severity=Error

Text:

An error occurred while loading Microsoft Exchange Intelligent Message Filter.

The error code is <error code>.

To manually remove Intelligent Message Filter v1:

Recently I attempted to upgrade a domain from Windows 2003 Server Standard SP1 to Windows 2003 Server R2.  Before running the update, Schema changes are required for Active Directory make it "R2-ready".  Attempting to run adprep /forestPrep from CD2 of the R2 release, I was greeted with a significant number of errors:




=============================================================================

"attributeId" attribute value for objects defined in Windows 2000 schema and ext

ended schema do not match.


A previous schema extension has defined the attribute value as "1.2.840.113556.1

.4.7000.187.70" for object "CN=uidNumber,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=domain

DC=tld" differently than the schema extension needed for Windows 2003 se

rver .

[Status/Consequence]

Adprep cannot extend your existing schema

[User Action]

Contact the vendor of the application that previously extended the schema to res

olve the inconsistency. Then run adprep again.



On the same server as in my previous post, I received other errors (10 of them) for each user that would be added to the Project Server via the Active Directory Synchronization process. Here's the error:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Microsoft Project Server Tracing Eventlog Provider
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1
Date: 4/12/2007
Time: 3:44:09 PM
User: NT AUTHORITYLOCAL SERVICE
Computer: SERVER01
Description:
Component: AD Connector
File: AutoADProcess
Line: -1
Description: <Description><![CDATA[AD Res Pool Sync - PDS ADD Res failed : Firstname Lastname]]></Description>

Googling around suggest various KB articles - none of which worked. I began searching Google Groups which lead me to various posts regarding the Project Server username & the Active Directory (AD) username.

On a whim, I navigated to Start > All Programs > Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 > Configure Microsoft Office Project Server. In the Project Server Admin section, Actions > Manage users and groups. In the Project user list, each user was listed by their AD username, ie: "jsmith".

I changed each user manually to their full name as displayed in AD, for example "John Smith". Running a manual update through Project Admin, Actions > Server configuration > Update only when specified > Update Now, allowed the synchronization with zero errors in the Event Viewer.

This particular server has the following software installed: Sharepoint Portal Server 2003, Windows SharePoint Services 2.0, Project Server 2003 and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 Beta 2. Checking the Eventlog's, I found the following error:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Windows Server Update Services
Event Category: Clients
Event ID: 13042
Date: 4/12/2007
Time: 9:08:45 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER01
Description:
Self-update is not working.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


Note:Some visitors have reported errors following these steps. Please see the comments at the bottom of the page before proceeding. I would recommend testing this in a Virtual Environment using any Virtualization software such as SWSoft's Virtuozzo, Microsoft Virtual Server 2003 R2 SP1, VMWare, etc. You have been warned!

The following describes my successful installation of the following applications on a CentOS 4.4 virtual environment running under Virtuozzo 3.0.0:

JRE 1.5.0 Update 11
JDK 1.5.0 Update 11
Tomcat 5.5.20
Postgresql 7.4.16
rrdtool 1.2.18
OpenNMS 1.3.2
Install Java: Head on over to http://java.sun.com and download JRE & JDK 5.  You'll need at least JDK 5.0 & JRE 5.0 Update 6 (I assume earlier and later versions work - I just happened to use these).

Download the files to any directory you like.  I personally prefer /usr/local/src/

# mkdir /usr/local/java
# cd /usr/local/src
# cp jdk-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.bin /usr/local/java
# cp jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.bin /usr/local/java
# cd /usr/local/java // (UPDATE!)
# chmod +x j*.bin
# ./jdk-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.bin
...
Creating jdk1.5.0_11/jre/lib/jsse.jar
Creating jdk1.5.0_11/jre/lib/charsets.jar
Creating jdk1.5.0_11/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar
Creating jdk1.5.0_11/jre/lib/plugin.jar
Creating jdk1.5.0_11/jre/lib/javaws.jar
Creating jdk1.5.0_11/jre/lib/deploy.jar

Done.
# ./jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.bin
    linking: jre1.5.0_11/javaws/javaws  -> ../bin/javaws
Creating jre1.5.0_11/lib/rt.jar
Creating jre1.5.0_11/lib/jsse.jar
Creating jre1.5.0_11/lib/charsets.jar
Creating jre1.5.0_11/lib/ext/localedata.jar
Creating jre1.5.0_11/lib/plugin.jar
Creating jre1.5.0_11/lib/javaws.jar
Creating jre1.5.0_11/lib/deploy.jar

Done.
# chown -R root:root jdk1.5.0_11
# chown -R root:root jre1.5.0_11 // I had a typo here.
# ln -s jdk1.5.0_11 j2sdk
# ln -s jre1.5.0_11 j2jre // I hade a typo here too!

Here's what the directory looks like:

[root@opennms java]# pwd
/usr/local/java
[root@opennms java]# ls -FGg
total 65216
lrwxrwxrwx  1       11 Apr 20 12:35 j2jre -> jre1.5.0_11/
lrwxrwxrwx  1       11 Apr 20 12:34 j2sdk -> jdk1.5.0_11/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 49574613 Apr 20 12:22 jdk-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.bin*
drwxr-xr-x  9     4096 Dec 15 04:36 jdk1.5.0_11/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 17115102 Apr 20 12:22 jre-1_5_0_11-linux-i586.bin*
drwxr-xr-x  7     4096 Dec 15 04:34 jre1.5.0_11/

Continuing on...
# rm *.bin
# vi /etc/profile

In /etc/profile, look for:

if [ -z "$INPUTRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then
    INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
fi

export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC

Between it (above "export" and below "fi"), add:

This has been driving my crazy for a while. Whenever I switch from MetaCity to Beryl and open tsclient, which ultimately loads rdesktop, the window is translucent and unusable when connecting to the remote server with the colours set at anything other than 8bit. Today I figured I'd Google it. Low and behold, the Gentoo Wiki had the answer:

Open a console and type:
$ export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

Then run the app from there or prepend "XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1" before the command.

Source: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL/Troubleshooting#...translucent

I reboot my desktop the other day, entered my username/password @ the gdm login, heard the pretty Ubuntu music and saw Gnome loading, when all of a sudden, *poof*, I was back at the gdm login screen being prompted for my username. Hmm I thought.


In /var/log/Xorg.0.log, the following existed:
AUDIT: Sat Jan 20 19:50:40 2007: 5351 X: client 2 rejected from local host


After Googling around a bit,the solution was to re-install my NVIDIA driver as the libglx.so symlink was broken (at /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so). Downloading and installing NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9631-pkg1.run corrected the issue. libglx.so is symlinked to libglx.so.1.0.9631 in the same directory.