IE8 and a broken Terminal Server Client Plugin

So those of you on Windows may be very familiar with IE 8, the latest version of the Microsoft Web Browser. I’m not really going to talk about it in general (or diss it rather ) but what I am going to talk about is a small issue that you may have when you update it from IE7. If you have the Terminal Server Client plugin enabled when you do the update, the plugin might not work. This can be the case if you a trying to log into you computer, say at work using Remote Web Workplace. I have noticed that although the plugin is enabled it will not work for some reason. To fix this so that you can log into your remote machine using RWW. First

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Reinstalling “Help and Support” Service after upgrade of Small Business Server 2003 to Service Pack 2

Came across this recently where after an upgrade of SBS 2003 to Service Pack 2, the Help and Support service magically disappears. I have upgraded SBS servers before but this has never happened to me. It’s a bit strange really, still trying to figure out why this happened. Anyone have any idea’s?

Anyway to reinstall the service requires 3 simple tasks.

1. Navigate to “%windir%\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries” in the command-line.
2. Run the command: “start /w helpsvc /svchost netsvcs /regserver /install”
3. When the command completes (it should take a minute or two), the “Help and Support” service should appear in the Services list, so start it,

There you go, problem solved. If anyone knows why this happened do let me know..