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In some scenarios it may be useful to adjust the date and time settings on a domain system. Especially when testing a particular millennium bug, or something like that :)
By default on a Windows domain, the time is synchronized every now and then; mostly within minutes. This may be undesirable if you’re planning to test for a few hours.
Today I tried to do a companywide unattended install of Paint.NET with SCCM 2007. I was using the following command:
Paint.NET.3.5.8.Install.exe /auto CHECKFORUPDATES=0 DESKTOPSHORTCUT=0
However, over 50% of the installations failed on the clients. The eventlog on all the failed clients reported the following:
For quite some time, I have been struggling with the problem that I could not connect to a network share, after having it enabled for Offline Files.
But: Solution has been found! :-)
Here’s the scenario I had to cope with:
When trying to add a network printer on Windows 7, the following error may occur:
“Windows cannot connect to the printer.”
Details: “Operation failed with error 0x0000007e”
There are several solutions for this problem:
Solution 1:
You can try to connect to the printer, using a local port. To try this solution, do the following:
On Windows 7, you may have the following error stated in your eventlog:
Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM
Event ID: 10016
Level: Error
User: SYSTEM
Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Launch permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {C97FCC79-E628-407D-AE68-A06AD6D8B4D1} and APPID {344ED43D-D086-4961-86A6-1106F4ACAD9B} to the user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM SID (S-1-5-18) from address LocalHost (Using LRPC). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.