How to Remove Network Map Path in the Drop Down List
How to Remove the Network map path in the folder’s Drop Down List in Windows 7. If you go to “Tools” and then to “Map Network Drive” in Windows explorer, there are previous network map path under the “Folder:” drop down arrow. To remove the network path that no longer exist in the drop list, open the Windows Registry and find the Network Drive MRU.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Map Network Drive MRU
It will list the network map path in order a, b, c, and so on.
Name Type Data
Default REG_SZ (value not set)
a REG_SZ \\Server\Folder
b REG_SZ \\Server\Folder2
c REG_SZ \\Server\Folder3
Delete the path that you don’t want to be display anymore on the drop down list.
Categories: Windows 7 Tags: Network Drive, Windows, Windows Registry
Event ID: 53258 MS DTC
After installing Active Directory on a system that is running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, the event viewer, under Application, is showing a warning after a reboot.
The source of the warning is MSDTC.
Event ID: 53258
Description: MS DTC could not correctly process a DC Promotion/Demotion event. MS DTC will continue to function and will use the existing security settings.
This issue occurs if Windows Server 2003 unsuccessfully tries to configure the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) service to use the default security settings. You experience this issue if the Network Service account is the account that the MS DTC service uses. Security settings for the MS DTC service are stored in the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MSDTC
The Network Service account has insufficient permissions to modify the security settings in the registry subkey.
You can safely ignore the event ID 53258 warning message that is mentioned in the “Symptoms” section. To prevent the warning message from being logged in Event Viewer, update the security component. To update the security component, follow these steps:
1. Go to Administrative Tools, and then click Component Services.
2. Expand Component Services, expand Computers, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
3. Click the MSDTC tab, and then click Security Configuration.
4. Under Security Settings, select the Network DTC Access check box.
5. Click OK.
6. Click Yes when you receive the following message:
“MS DTC service will be stopped and restarted. All dependent services will be stopped. Please press yes to proceed”
7. Click OK.
Categories: Windows Server Tags: Event Viewer, Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, MSDTC
DNS in Windows Server 2003
How-To Configure Domain Name System (DNS) in Windows Server 2003.
1. To Install DNS, open the Windows Components Wizard.
- Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Click Add/Remove Windows Components.
2. In Components, select the Networking Services check box, and then click Details.
3. In Subcomponents of Networking Services, select the Domain Name System (DNS) check box, click OK, and then click Next.
4. Configuring DNS, start the Configure Your Server Wizard. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Configure Your Server Wizard.
5. On the Server Role page, click DNS server, and then click Next.
6. On the Summary of Selections page, view and confirm the options that you have selected. The following items should appear on this page:
- Install DNS
- Run the Configure a DNS Wizard to configure DNS
If the Summary of Selections page lists these two items, click Next. If the Summary of Selections page does not list these two items, click Back to return to the Server Role page, click DNS, and then click Next.
7. When the Configure Your Server Wizard installs the DNS service, it first determines whether the IP address for this server is static or is configured automatically. If your server is currently configured to obtain its IP address automatically, the Configuring Components page of the Windows Components Wizard prompts you to configure this server with a static IP address. To do so:
- In the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click Properties.
- In the Internet Protocols (TCP/IP) Properties dialog box, click Use the following IP address, and then type the static IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway for this server.
- In Preferred DNS, type the IP address of this server.
- In Alternate DNS, type the IP address of another internal DNS server, or leave this box blank.
- When you finish setting up the static addresses for your DNS, click OK, and then click Close.
8. After you click Close, the Configure a DNS Server Wizard starts. In the wizard, follow these steps:
- On the Select Configuration Action page, select the Create a forward lookup zone check box, and then click Next.
- To specify that this DNS hosts a DNS zone that contains DNS resource records for your network resources, on the Primary Server Location page, click This server maintains the zone, and then click Next.
- On the Zone Name page, in Zone name, specify the name of the DNS zone for your network, and then click Next. The name of the zone is the same as the name of the DNS domain for your small organization or branch office.
- On the Dynamic Update page, click Allow both nonsecure and secure dynamic updates, and then click Next. This makes sure that the DNS resource records for the resources in your network update automatically.
- On the Forwarders page, click Yes, it should forward queries to DNS servers with the following IP addresses, and then click Next. When you select this configuration, you forward all DNS queries for DNS names outside your network to a DNS at either your ISP or central office. Type one or more IP addresses that either your ISP or central office DNS servers use.
- On the Completing the Configure a DNS Wizard page of the Configure a DNS Wizard, you can click Back to change any of the settings. To apply your selections, click Finish.
The Configure Your Server Wizard will display the This Server is Now a DNS Server page. To review all the changes made to the server in the Configure Your Server Wizard or to make sure that a new role was installed successfully, click Configure Your Server log. The Configure Your Server Wizard log is located at %systemroot%\Debug\Configure Your Server.log. To close the Configure Your Server Wizard, click Finish.
Categories: Windows Server Tags: DNS, Windows Server