Direct File Downloading via OWA and Mobile Phones Now in SBS 2008

http://sbs.seandaniel.com/2008/07/allowing-owa-and-mobile-devices-to.html

Tested and verified.  This works, is simple to setup, and is cool!

SBS 2003 – RWW – Finding and Fixing Failed Redirected Printers

Terminal Server Printer Redirection Wizard Tool

Brief Description

This tool will help resolve Terminal Server Printer Redirection errors by scanning the event log of a Terminal Server to create a custom mapping file for administrators.

Quick Details

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=9AD27BE9-40DB-484F-862E-38A094EEEAF7&displaylang=en

File Name:
TSPDRW_Package.exe

Version:
1.0.80

Knowledge Base (KB) Articles:
KB239088

Overview

The Terminal Server Printer Driver Redirection Wizard will help you troubleshoot and replace print drivers that were unsuccessfully redirected. This tool automates the process found in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB239088 entitled “Windows 2000 Terminal Services Server Logs Events 1111, 1105, and 1006”

This tool will scan a server’s System Event Log and detect all events with Event ID 1111 and Source ‘TermServDevices.’ The tool will then scan the server’s registry for installed Version 3 MINI drivers, and prompt you to substitute an installed Version 3 MINI driver for each of the printers that failed printer redirection. Any changes will be written to a file named NTPrintSubs.inf which is where custom redirected printer mappings are stored.

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note that this tool will eventually ask for drivers for the printers it discovers weren’t properly redirected .  So be prepared first to run it as a method to catalog what you need to go get and then re-run it to install whatever drivers you’ve gotten and uploaded to some local directory or network share in relation to the server

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Limit SBS 2003 RWW Redirected Printer to Only Default Printer

If you have ever found it annoying that when you use RWW with SBS 2003 that you end up with a lot of printers to choose from then this tip might be something you’ll also find awesome.  How would you like it if the only printer that redirected was the one you normally print to, your default?  No longer be cluttered with Adobe .pdf printers, One Note printers, Microsoft Document Imaging printers, fax printers, …etc.

Well there is a way to do it via the registry.  The KB this comes from also referred to a hotfix; however, being that this KB is over 3 years old I’m assuming that the hotfix has been rolled up in an update or service pack by now. -

 

How to modify the registry to configure default printer redirection on a Terminal Services client

 

To configure default printer redirection on a Terminal Services client, add the RedirectDefaultPrinterOnly registry entry to the Windows registry. To do this, follow these steps:

• locate and then click the following registry subkey:

“HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\AddIns\RDPDR”

Note To configure default printer redirection for only the current user, locate and then click the following registry subkey instead:

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\AddIns\RDPDR

• On the Edit menu (assuming the value below doesn’t yet exist), point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
• Type RedirectDefaultPrinterOnly, and then press ENTER.
• Double-click RedirectDefaultPrinterOnly, type 1 (on) in the Value data box, and then click OK.
  Note Type 0 (off) in the Value data box to disable the registry entry. Setting the value data to 0 turns off default printer redirection.

- BTW while you are in the registry at that Subkey you might consider another addition.  Another KB discussed issues regarding some printers that use a DOT4 printer port instead of a COM, USB, or LPT1 port.  This key forces all ports to be filtered for redirection.  I see no downside to doing this proactively even before a DOT4 printer is introduced – KB302361

add a DWORD value named FilterQueueType to “HKxx\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\AddIns\RDPDR and set its value data to FFFFFFFF”.

RWW Exclusions SBS 2003 – Leaving Desktops With Local Access Only

If you have a desktop you do not want accessed through the RWW portal there is a simple way to do this.  You add the computer name to the “ExcludeList”.

This applies to SBS 2003 not SBS 2008 (see Andy’s comment).

It is a subkey in the Windows Registry found here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\RemoteUserPortal

Under this you will see a String Value ‘ExcludeList’

You should add desktops with no spaces and separating multiple names with a comma:

RWW Printing – a SBS 2003 Workaround

If every you have run into issues getting printing to work for a RWW worker, you know that the solution requires end user cooperation so that the same driver gets installed on the server and the accessing laptop or workstation.  ThinPrint has a solution, use their universal driver mechanisms as a man in the middle.

While SBS 2008 promises to remove this issue there are still going to be a lot of SBS 2003 systems in place for some time.

http://www.thinprint.com

print for Remote Web Workplace includes the following components:

• .print Desktop Engine on every workplace computer
• ThinPrint .print for SBS on the Small Business Server
• .print Client Windows (RDP) on the notebooks or home PCs

All three installation programs are Plug & Play.

Illustration: Installing ThinPrint .print components in an SBS environment with Remote Web Workplace (example)