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Hello!
I want to share with you two tricks for Windows Server 2008 R2 that I have discovered, to save you an headache during PcVue installation process.
1) It's of course possible to create more than one Administrator user, but only the default "Administrator" user have full privileges. :blink: Others administrators infact, needs to launch any application by right click over the icon then "Run as Administrator" every time for taking full privileges. In my case, even if my account was under "Administrators" group, PcVue crashed at every startup because it don't have the necessary writing rights.
To solve, it's necessary to go on Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy > Local Policies > Security Options > User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode -> DISABLED
2) Installation on Terminal Servers: It's necessary to configure the Windows Terminal Server Role BEFORE installing PcVue. Then, before to launch the PcVue installation, it's necessary to set your server in "Installation Mode". To do this: open the console prompt and write change user /install ; When the installation it's finished you can re-set this settings with the command change user /execute.
Please notice that is the same story also for Dream Report. If you try to install Dream Report in a Windows Terminal Services enabled server without using the Installation Mode, you obtain an error: "Missing .NET 3.5".
3) If your customer have some "home-made" ActiveX object, developed on Visual Studio 6 you may need to install some dependances from VS6. You can notice this if you see only a gray square in the PcVue Mimic instead of the ActiveX object. Since you cannot install VS6 on Windows Server 2008, you must create an "installation package" from a development environment (like Windows XP) then install it on Windows Server 2008.
But it's not finished because when you try to open the mimic that contain an external ActiveX, you always have an annoyng security warning message. To disable it, you have to create a .REG file with the following rows, and execute it for each Windows user.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftVBASecurity]
"LoadControlsInForms"=dword:00000001
Since I'm here, I want to share another strange problem that I've seen on my laptop. I have Windows 7 & the Shrew Soft VPN Client used for accessing Sevres's Servers in VPN. This utility have a services - launched at startup - called Shrew Soft DNS Proxy Daemon. This application generates a conflict with the DNS resolver of VMware. So your Virtual Machines are not ables to resolve DNS queries if this services is running. To solve this problem, you can disable this service: apperently the VPN connection work OK even without.
I hope these information are helpful to someone :unsure:
Posted : 26/03/2013 2:32 am
Thank you very much filippo for these info.
For the point 1. I suggest making a KB article
Posted : 26/03/2013 9:57 pm
Hello Filippo
You said : 'It's necessary to configure the Windows Terminal Server Role BEFORE installing PcVue'
I think I already installed PcVue before the Role Remote Desktop.
I recommend to install role before PcVue 😉
The second note is interesting :
Then, before to launch the PcVue installation, it's necessary to set your server in "Installation Mode". To do this: open the console prompt and write change user /install ; When the installation it's finished you can re-set this settings with the command change user /execute.
Posted : 27/03/2013 9:19 pm