There is a slight problem when trying to deploy printers using group policies in Small Business Server 2008. When following the steps for server 2008 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722179(WS.10).aspx ) you will find that the pushprinterconnections.exe file located on server 2008 is 64-bit. This can be a big problem because the executable is incompatible with any 32-bit machines.

James on www.activedir.org had posted a link (http://rapidshare.com/files/177770274/ppc.exe) to download the 32-bit version of the pushprinterconnections.exe. You can also obtain this by downloading the 32-bit demo of SBS2008 and extracting the pushprinterconnections.exe from that installation.

The following document will lead you through the process of installing Print Services and configuring the group policy to deploy the printers. All you need to do after that is download the ppc.exe file, rename it to pushprinterconnections.exe and follow the directions on placing it in GPO scripts folder.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755424(WS.10).aspx

Have you ever run into a situation where you needed to join a new domain but keep the old profile?  One of our senior engineers (Greg Prawl) provided this information to me the other day when I was doing a domain migration from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008.  This process allows you to keep the old domain profile when you join a new domain. 

This comes in handy because when you run the connect computer wizard (http://connect), you will only see local profiles. There is documentation out there that will suggest you create a local profile and then copy the domain profile information over to that local profile; however you can still lose settings and even worse time by following this method.

Here is an easy way to do this

Log into the machine as an administrator (domain/local)

Make a note of the profile that you want to keep (ie c:documents and settingsprofileyouwanttokeep)

Join them to the new domain (It will ask you for a username/password for the new domain, log in as an domain administrator).

Restart the computer (This does not remove the old domain profile)

Log them in under their domain account then log off.  (This creates the new domain profile)

Log on as Administrator (of the domain) and add the domain user to the local administrators group.

Go into Regedit and go to (Start, Run, type regedit in the command line and click OK);
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionProfileList
an you will see a lot of keys starting with S-1-5- etc.  If you browse through them you will find these are the profiles stored on the PC.  Look for the ‘Profileimagepath’ line and find the one with the profile you want to keep. Copy the entry and paste it over the new domain users account in the same field (ie c:documents and settingsnewdomainuser.domain).

Log off and log back on as the new domain user and you will have all the same settings desktop etc.

All you are doing basically is tricking the computer to use the original profile. The domain user MUST have the permissions set to be able to access the original profile, so please make sure that you either have them set as a local administrator or give them full permissions on the old domain folder.

MSDN blog article about RDS improvements in Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2.

http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2010/02/05/announcing-the-remote-desktop-protocol-performance-improvements-in-windows-server-2008-r2-and-windows-7-white-paper.aspx

Here is the link straight to the document that shows some of the bandwidth improvements that have been made and MULTI-MEDIA REDIRECTION in RDP 7.0.  For LAN environments RDS is a usable protocol.

Remote Desktop Protocol Performance Improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7

Not that this will work for everyone it is a clever way to troubleshoot a client during the logon process.

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2010/01/13/3305263.aspx

Have a domain controller that’s failed in your environment and need to cleanup the data in Active Directory because you can’t do a dcpromo?  Here’s your support article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216498