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for Antivirus you can install Microsoft Security, its free and will install,update and work at no problems, just choose the Win7 64bit version at http://www.Microsoft.com/security_essentials . 😀
@Arris wrote:
Great job, smartie77! :geek: As you can see by looking at the number of views of this topic, this is a much requested feature 🙂 Updated the main page of the win2008workstation manual and the [localurl=viewtopic.php?f=11&t=60:2wftgehg]main topic[/localurl:2wftgehg].
Wow. Thanks, I feel honoured, Administrator !
forgive me the complicated way of explaining stuff.. I am a Linux guy usually and german speaking .. tweaking an OS or add features never supposed into them is one of my favorite hobbies.. vliting vistas, reconfiguring servers , fiddling in the registry hives, I am also one of these crazy people that put OSX on PCs and so on.. therefore this game thing was easy to figure out. So, now it is shared with everyone for their pleasure.
Some screenies where they might visualize what I am trying to say.. I tend to be over-technical or over-simplifying things, forgive me that please 😆 ..
Once again, thank you and I will try to see what else can be added here.
About My Intention :
2008 was and still is the very best Vista-Replacement ( Home Premium 64 was preinstalled on my Laptop and I hate it – I dislike Win7 too ) and the only 32bit OS that lets you use all Ram without forcing the 64bit madness of Windows ( slow and full of bugs – also I need 16bit support on Win ) . In Linux a standard feature to have a pae kernel available.. in Microsofts world it needs a server os.. crazy world, but however – Plus Server is way securer and can be hardened like hell for restricted users, and now that MSE 2.0 installs on it – well, safe,secure,nice and performance. With full gaming support and without the 64bit overhead of having double directories, exes and services . What else we need for a modern windows box – lean and mean but secure .. the next best thing to Linux ( which is the best of course ) 😉“the Sims 3 “plus their expansion packs work ( 2008 x86 SP2 with all updates ,platform update, xinput,dmusic,gameux)
@jack Flash wrote:
When I attempt to refresh the Roles and Features Summary portions of the Server Manager I get the error “Unexpected error refreshing Server Manager; the component store has been corrupted. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80073712)”
I am running Windows Server 2008 Standard.
probably solution 1 :
Start-> run ( as admin ) : dcomcnfg.exe
make sure it looks like this here – if not, change settings like in this screen :
properties of “My Computer” in DCOM config ( Server manager uses distributed com )
reboot might required !
– Check also Services.msc that dcom and MSDTC ( Distributed Transaction Coordinator ) is enabled and set to automatic –
probably solution 2 :
also make sure that you have not set some incorrect values for refreshing of Server manager in gpedit.msc , if there is a manual timeout for refreshing given then set it to “not configured” and reboot.
Otherwise see MS Knowledgebase .. they have lots of private Hotfixes for Vista/2008 and Win7 available which you can request for free to be mailes to your email. ( Files that will go into the next SP but are not on Windows Update ) – its an automated solution, no MS employee will contact you . They do it this way so that not the average joe will run windows with unsupported files installed ( too much or wrong hotfixes can cause issues of cause .. its a support matter ) .
@stanowen wrote:
I have used Nero6 for some time and find it a great piece of software. It refused to work under Vista and, whilst it installed OK under 2008R2, it initially failed with a “SCSI error” when attempting to burn a disc. Given that my machine is only a couple of weeks old (HP ML350) and Nero6 is quite aged now, this result was not entirely unexpected and may well be down to Nero not addresssing the capabilities of the new drive correctly. Anyway, I configured the drive under “Recorder/Choose Recorder/Options” for “Current Recorder Setting” after which I was able to burn CDs and DVDs quite happily although I did push the write speed down a notch to be sure. Both types of disk wrote fine and I’ve checked these on another machine.
Hope this helps someone
none admin accounts might need the tool “nero burnrights” which will create a “nero” users group. all restricted users can be added to that group via server manager, so they can burn too.
the tool is freeware and is on the products homepage for download .
use this for Vista “Vista Codec Pack” http://shark007.net/vistacodecpackage.html
plus optionally from the same site “x64 components”
Install first the x86 version as prerequisite, later the x64 addons in that order.
In x64 Windows you have two versions of wmplayer.exe, one 32bit ( default ) and a x64 one ( unused )
with the second ( optional ) tool from the page you can make the x64 player the default one.
In any case wmplayer.exe WILL be able to play about anything, including DVDs, vobs, flvs, mp4s, mov, mkv, avi , divx, xvid .. in other words : most every video and audio format around.
Set file associations manually or by rightclicking a mp4,flv etc and say in the open with dialog “Windows Media Player” . Thumbnails will be generated once the files have been used first time or once they are inside your WMP Library.
SVCDs/DVDs will playback automatically via Shell Autorun in the “play DVD with ..” dialog.
As a bonus you will get the pretty thumbnails and file details in eplorer for the video files that are normally unsupported before the pack, even those youtube files or divx .. the Elvis movie example in my screenshot is a divx file.. Windows normally doesn’t open it and does not know what it contains. WMP would tell me that the required codec is missing. So normally I would need divx player or VLC. Same for the flv file which is a downloaded youtube music clip, Windows cannot play anything youtube .. Now it does ( and playback is smoothly working, even fullscreen ).
If you use Server08R2 you need the windows7 version, take care to choose the correct one ( vista = 2008, win7 = R2 ).
Notice also the DVD tab in wmp ( either 32 or 64bit version ) – enabled only with installation of a bove free codec pack , no DVD decoder or mpeg2 files .. only the package above 😉
use this for Vista “Vista Codec Pack” http://shark007.net/vistacodecpackage.html
plus optionally from the same site “x64 components”
Install first the x86 version as prerequisite, later the x64 addons in that order.
In x64 Windows you have two versions of wmplayer.exe, one 32bit ( default ) and a x64 one ( unused )
with the second ( optional ) tool from the page you can make the x64 player the default one.
In any case wmplayer.exe WILL be able to play about anything, including DVDs, vobs, flvs, mp4s, mov, mkv, avi , divx, xvid .. in other words : most every video and audio format around.
Set file associations manually or by rightclicking a mp4,flv etc and say in the open with dialog “Windows Media Player” . Thumbnails will be generated once the files have been used first time or once they are inside your WMP Library.
SVCDs/DVDs will playback automatically via Shell Autorun in the “play DVD with ..” dialog.
As a bonus you will get the pretty thumbnails and file details in eplorer for the video files that are normally unsupported before the pack, even those youtube files or divx .. the Elvis movie example in my screenshot is a divx file.. Windows normally doesn’t open it and does not know what it contains. WMP would tell me that the required codec is missing. So normally I would need divx player or VLC. Same for the flv file which is a downloaded youtube music clip, Windows cannot play anything youtube .. Now it does ( and playback is smoothly working, even fullscreen ).
If you use Server08R2 you need the windows7 version, take care to choose the correct one ( vista = 2008, win7 = R2 ).
Notice also the DVD tab in wmp ( either 32 or 64bit version ) – enabled only with installation of a bove free codec pack , no DVD decoder or mpeg2 files .. only the package above 😉
ok, here is how ( for x86 32bit Sp2 ) :
to be on the safe side you should have all important runtimes and DirectX installed, like a universal pack called AiO runtimes ( all in one runtimes ) .. google for it. It installs Xinput,DirectX,Net 1.1 to 3.5.1, all c++ and so on. Pretty safe and conveniant .
0.) install opensource/freeware 7zip for opening the wim files http://www.7zip.org – its useful as you see :
1. ) take your Vista iso / CD and navigate to the sources folder.
2. ) Open the INSTALL.WIM file by rightclicking it and select open with 7zip.
3.) Inside the wim you notice numbered directories. Each directory is a Vista edition. for me Number 3 was the folder for ULTIMATE which contains all the games I was interested in.
4.) Inside the [3] directory you see now all the folders of a Vista installation like Users,Windows,Program Files etc..
5.) We need a few files from that System32 directory and the complete “Program FilesMicrosoft Games” Folder from the opened install.wim — you can drag and drop them from the opened 7zip window to your desktop for instance.
FROM “Program Files” in Vista :
drag and drop the “microsoft games” folder to your desktop.
6.) FROM SYSTEM32 in Vista :
joy.cpl
Xinput_9_1_0.dll
dmusic.dll
Cardgames.dll
wpc.dll
GameUX.dll
GameUXLegacyDFS.dll
place the above on your desktop or a safe folder, they all go later in your system32 folder.Now make a Folder EN-US or whatever Vista Source Language Code you are using ( I have a english vista cd but a german server one, which is not a problem – every NT6.x System has all the En-US, de-DE folders already. But you need to put the correct MUI files into their native folders.
From Inside the opened System32 Folder of Vistas Wim in 7zip you navigate to the EN-US folder of Vista – We need these MUI files :
joy.cpl.mui
wpc.dll.mui
GameUX.dll.mui
— drag and drop these 3 to your EN-US folder on the desktop.Now we need a patched slc file – get a working one here :
http://msftguy.blogspot.com/2008/07/snipping-tool-on-server-2008-no-love.html
extract it ( slc.dll) to the desktop and keep it safe.. its the key file that makes this possible. ( Even running other vista tools on Server.. )
This SLC.dll needs to be copied into the “Microsoft games” subdirectories, e.g. into Minesweeper folder,Chess folder, Inkball folder and so on.. in every game there has to be this exact slc.dll .. DO NOT PUT THIS file into your Windows or System32 directory– only in the games folders
7.) Now close the Vista Wim, 7zip. You should have the Microsoft Games Folder, the dlls,cpls and the EN-US folder on your desk
the following tasks need admin rights or UAC working :
move/copy the single files from your desktop ( except SLC.dll ) to your (Server 2008 ) system32 directory
move the EN-US folder into the same system32 directory, when asked if you want to merge it, say yes.
move the prepared “Microsoft Games” folder to your Server08 “C:program files” folder.
Open a cmd prompt as admin
cd to c:windowsSystem32 if it isnt already
registering the ne 😀 😀 eded files :
regsvr32 gameux.dll
regsvr32 dmusic.dll
that’s it.
Now you can make shortcuts from C:program filesMicrosoft GamesGame_namegame.exe to your desktop and they will all run. Note : they wont show up in Game Explorer, but it is needed..
@tramusen wrote:
It may work, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to work when it comes out of beta.
It DOES work with the Final product.
Just use vista-7-x86 version for Server08 32bit and the vista-7-amd64 version for all other Servers.
@raiden89 wrote:
First post is incorrect. Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Beta does work. Needs to be changed to reflect this. Screenshot proof is attached.
Final Version of MSE 2.0 runs on every 2008 Server OS, NT 6 and 6.1
new Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 released 16 December 2010 installs and works on Server 2008 x86/x64 and on R2 too !
Desktop Features dont need to be on. If they are then it will disable Defender like in Vista / 7.
No tricks, no patching 😀Tested myself with fresh install of 2008 x86 Enterprise SP2 – screenshots :
http://img831.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=unbenannt2hb.jpg
No other features or updates prior installed. Installation is quick, one reboot later it fetches the signatures from the web. Faster and less consuming as version 1.
People running R2 confirmed to me it works there also.
new Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 released 16 December 2010 installs and works on Server 2008 x86/x64 and on R2 too !
Desktop Features dont need to be on. If they are then it will disable Defender like in Vista / 7.
No tricks, no patching 😀
Tested myself with fresh install of 2008 x86 Enterprise SP2 – screenshots :
http://img831.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=unbenannt2hb.jpg
No other features or updates prior installed. Installation is quick, one reboot later it fetches the signatures from the web. Faster and less consuming as version 1.
People running R2 confirmed to me it works there also.
