Problem:

I have just had a strange problem, when an individual user  tried to launch any published application another server desktop session was initiated with the below message, resetting the users profiles etc made no difference.

I found myself needing to Sysprep a 2008 Server today in preparing for cloning, I soon discovered that sysprep is no longer on the DVD instead Sysprep is now install by default under.

C:\Windows\System32\sysprep\sysprep.exe

The gui is also streamlined considerably. run sysprep.exe are you are presented with:

Check the "Generalize" checkbox (regenerates system SID), change the Shutdown Options to "Shutdown", and click OK.

The below script will disbale all of the users accounts provided in a CSV file, the script could easily be modified to change any other properties for the list of users.

Change the values strCSV and strDomain as needed

Problem:

If the IMA server will not start with messages in the event log such as the following, then the IMA database may be corrupt

The Independent Management Architecture service terminated with service-specific error 2147483649 (0x80000001).

Failed to load initial plugins with error IMA_RESULT_FAILURE

Failed to load plugin ImaRuntimeSS.dll with error IMA_RESULT_FAILURE

Here is a script I used a few months ago it is very useful if you are moving or changing the name of your printer server. The script looks at the current users installed network printers which are retrieved for example as;

\\printserver1\hrprinter
\\printserver1\copier1

If the name of the server matches the variable “from_sv” the printer is removed from the user and a new printer is added using the “to_sv” variable from example if the “to_sv” variable was set to “\\newprintserver;