Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Remote Desktop Cut and Paste does not work

Issue:

When using RDP you may not be able to cut and paste information between your local and remote sessions.

Cause:

The rdpclip.exe processing may not be running on the remote system. Alternatively, the clipboard chain may be incomplete.

Workaround:

Restart the rdpclip.exe process on the remote system.

More Information:
The following article has a good article on Clipboard chaining;

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2006/11/16/why-does-my-shared-clipboard-not-work-part-1.aspx

Thursday, October 2, 2008

schtasks /v verbose option may not display expected results

Issue:
When you run "schtasks /query /s [SERVER] /v" on a Windows XP machine, the scheduled tasks utility may not list any tasks.

Symptoms:
The Windows XP schtasks.exe utility (5.1.2600.2180) does not return any output. Task execution does not appear to be impacted by this command line limitation.

Cause:
A scheduled task is configured with a command line exceeding 254 characters.

Executing the command "schtasks /query /s [SERVER]" without the verbose option returns the list of scheduled tasks, however, when the /v option is used to display the extended properties of the task no output is returned.

Workaround:
Use the Windows 2003 version of schtasks.exe (5.2.3790.0) returns task information, although tasks with command lines exceed 254 characters are truncated.

Alternatively, use Windows explorer to view the task information.