After spending a good few hours screwing around with Windows Server 2008 R1 and Terminal sessions with GPO Mapped Drives I finally found that drives would not be mapped without the reconnect option enabled.
So there you go, if you are having similar problems, ignore the help stating the reconnect is the same as persistent connections, it is required for them to be mapped at all.
I wrote a quick vb console utility to rename folders into a nice format for movie downloads. When run Name Movie will parse all folder in its current directory and rename them into the format:
Movie Name (XXXX)
Where XXXX is the year the file was produced. So
13.Assassins.2010.RERip.XviD.AC3-ViSiON
becomes:
13 Assassins (2010)
Link to download.
This is freeware, blah blah
To my horror after the builders have been screwing around under the stairs I found my server displaying the rather disconcerting message
Windows can not load due to bfzonfal.sys being missing or corrupt
Well a search on google for said driver found a massive total of zero.
ZERO? the collective brain of the online world has never heard of bfzonfal.sys
Well I though it sounded a strange name. After a significant amount of drinking and cursing of builders and lamenting of never having taken a backup I decided to go out and get more drunk.
On return I had an enlightening thought, just shove the windows 7 ultimate CD in as the server CD has long since been covered in builders rubble and run up a command prompt.
navigate to system32\drivers and found the bfzonfal.sys driver to be 0k. Ok so I moved it elsewhere, c:\ seemed good. rebooted and all good, yay!
To celebrate I got more drunk and puked out this blog in the hope someone else my find this useful.
I wrote this because I needed to know what user was logged onto what PC when remotely connecting to a supported server.
Find Users v0.1 (c) 2011 Chris
Computer Username Desciption
TREEBEARD * Window 7 64 Ultimate
STORMCROW Chris.KINGS Kings Server
BOMBADIL Maxy Maxy's Laptop
Press any key to exit
To find the users who are logged onto network connected Windows Workstations from a server logged on a domain admin account.
I wrote this utility as in the small business where I work we had no blanket tool for proactive monitoring of services that are supported by our company.
Main Page
Popup example
A simple utility that scans ports and provides a balloon tooltip notifying the user of ports that are unavailable
Runs upto 64 concurrent threads checking if ports are open.
Displays in a listview that can be sorted by column.
Name and group a service.
Enable and disable particular services from scan.
Auto scan every 15 minutes.
Source code included.
Imports from Remote Desktop Manager rdm files
Minimises to system tray
Records last seen open and last seen closed times.
A small utility that I wrote to help people on the helpdesk communicate information to prevent the duplication of jobs and to provide call handlers the information required to resolve the call before it become a job. Source code included. VB.NET 3
Example Notify Balloon
Main Form
To provide the ability to anyone in a group of people to communicate a piece of information that will be distributed to other users of the utility in the form of a toolbar popup. The need I had for this was that working on a helpdesk as I do, I may know of a problem that if the call handlers knew about then they could tell people phoning up that the problem they are facing will be resolved in time rather than creating duplicate jobs.
I wrote this utility to help the call handler at work provide the helpdesk staff with more information.
Question Cats
Main Screen
Purpose
A small VB NET 3 utility the will display a list of questions for a given topic that can be answered in a series of text fields. Once completed these answers are copied with the questions into the copy buffer to be pasted onto a call sheet in a helpdesk application. This utility saves the creation of paper based question sheets, provides a standard format and can be updated without any changes to the program. It is driven by the text file that is included in the zip. Source code is included.
It was noticed that extreme tube made another change to their website I got around to making the changes to the script so you can download the FLV files again. Firefox, greasemonkey and an interest in extremetube required. Main article