Dave's Technotes

Monday, July 30, 2007

RDP printers

When connecting to servers, if the port name is something other than LPT, USB, or COM, the printer does not get created on the server.

A simple registry hack fixes this, as explained in MS Knowledgebase article 302361.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

MS Shadow Copy Client

Microsoft's new Shadow Copy feature is really cool, but if you want to be able to actually see the copies, you need to install the Shadow Copy Client. To save time searching, you can download it from Microsoft using this link.