Windows-Xpe on BAFM

Windows XP Embedded and GPO settings

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:57:51 +0000

We’re currently having a weird issue (which we had before); the Windows XP Embedded powering our Wyse V90’s isn’t applying any GPO settings if you log on with a user that has a configured profile.

Googling (is that a valid word yet ?!) for it, only resulted in one useful link, which is apparently a guy with the exact same problem … 🤷 I’m completely out of ideas by now, as I don’t even have a place to start (as in where the reason might be located).

Windows XP Embedded and GPO settings (continued)

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 09:56:20 +0000

Well, as I said in my previous post, I do have some weird things happening. Apparently adding the domain user to the local group “Administrators” makes everything just works fine, yet he can’t do administrator like stuff (like turning off the write protection, changing local user accounts, …).

Also, if you’re looking for a smart way of how to add a certain global group (as in Active Directory group) to a local group, try this:

Windows XP(e) refusing to connect to a terminal server

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:48:52 +0000

Today a error message reappeared I thought I wouldn’t see again. We use Wyse Thin Clients and 2X running on two terminal servers, to provide the thin clients with applications. Now, once a while one of the thin clients (not all at once, just a single one) refuse to connect to the terminal server jabbing about this:

`1`	`The remote computer disconnected the session because of an error in the licensing protocol.`

The error message you get from the 2X client ain’t the slightest bit more helpful.

VBscript undamp; Active Directory and printers (continued)

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:54:09 +0000

As I posted earlier, I tried working around some limitations in Microsoft’s Active Directory by teaching the script some intelligence.

But, since we recently started using Thin Clients, all the stuff I did with the fancy vbs was just a waste-of-time. Turns out, Windows XP Embedded doesn’t work quite the same as a " normal" Windows XP (that’s where I tested the script on), and it simply dies when running the WMI Query. Bollocks.

GPO (behind the scenes)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:46:20 +0000

Well, to begin with we had this really weird problem that the thin clients as well as the terminal server would only load user based group policy if you are a member of the group of local administrators. While that’s ok for the thin clients (users can’t actually change something unless they log in as “Administrator” - don’t ask me why), it’s a real no-no on the terminal server.

Windows XP Embedded, Windows Server 2003 and GPO settings (the solution)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:35:57 +0000

OK, so about an hour (yeah, yeah; I know .. I shouldn’t be working at that time, but it really gave me sleepless nights) ago, I finally figured out why the hell both my Windows XP Embedded thin clients as well as my Windows Server 2003 systems where showing this real weird behaviour when applying group policies, or more precise the user based configuration of a group policy.

Integrating Windows XPe into Active Directory

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:12:44 +0000

As the guys over at FreeWyseMonkeys demonstrated with JoinDomain.zip, it ain’t hard to integrate a Windows XP Embedded system into Active Directory.

You basically need this:

A system powered by Windows XP Embedded
netdom.exe (from any Windows XP - SP2 in your MUI language)
some know-how, on how to use netdom to integrate it into your AD

Everything else is already present on the Windows XP Embedded systems I’ve seen. Then let’s get it on !

Customizing Thin Clients

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:14:53 +0000

As some of you know, the company I’m currently working for, recently acquired some thin clients to replace our old computers for the students to work on. Those PC’s are like P3 800 MHz with 512MB RAM and sadly don’t run Office 2007 anymore, so we replaced them with thin clients and are streaming those applications from a Windows Terminal Server cluster (created by and with 2X Application LoadBalancer).

So far so good, getting them to display the applications ain’t hard, the real hard part starts when you want additional things from this Windows XPe (Embedded), like lets say getting them to display a German language.

Thin clients

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:13:44 +0000

As some of you people know, we (as in the University) recently purchased some Thin Clients in order to replace some oldish’ computers and solve the software management at the same time.

The Thin Clients ain’t bad, they are Wyse V90L’s and they (as in Wyse) use their own management software to manage and deploy those thin clients and software. The bad thing about that, is it’s using it’s own “Scripting Language” (if you can call it that way - it’s more pseudo scripting since you can’t do much with it besides some basic actions).