Re: Vista Bus to SBS2003R2 connectcomputer problems . . .

Brad wrote:
Hi Trevor,

I ran into this problem with a few Vista Bus laptops - Whenever I tried to connect over a wireless connection.

1) Make sure you are on a wired connection, not wireless. There is no need to disable the UAC.

I did three yesterday, new HP towers, not a wireless NIC between them.

2) Make sure you have installed the vista patches on your SBS machine.

3) In Control Panel -> Network Connections, disable all network adapters except your wired NIC. There is no need to worry about your IP6 bindings.

Just the one NIC, with wires.

4) Open internet explorer (no need to run as admin) and go to http://server/connectcomputer, enable intranet settings when prompted.

With a brand new machine, you're a local admin by default.

5) Follow the bouncing ball.

Which led to a message telling me that only an admin could do this. Disable UAC and it all worked.

So how many of these patches are there? The only possible explanation is that there is at least one more than I was aware of, and I went through the MS documents and a couple of forum articles. I'm not currently where the documents and my notes are, so I don't recall the numbers exactly, especially as I'd just installed Exchange SP2 in the same session. I did find a reference to a hotfix that appeared not to exist any longer, but was part of SP2, but that was relevant only to Exchange.





To install the certificate on Vista...

1) right click your IE icon and choose "run as administrator"

2) When prompted that there is a problem with the website certificate, click "Continue to this website (not recommended)."

3) Click on the certificate error, near your URL bar, and then View Certificate.

4) Click Install Certificate -> Place all certificates in the following store -> Trusted Root Certification Authorities.

5) Reboot if necessary

Oh joy. So only people with admin passwords can install certificates in IE7. And a possible *reboot*? *And* you have to surf with IE as an admin? One step forwards...
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