Early january Microsoft released KB5074109 which breaks connecting to Remote Desktop via de Windows App. The update had number KB5074109, Microsoft released an OOB (Out of band) update to resolve the issue. [KB5077744] I created 2 scripts so you can fix this for the affected machines remotely (if you are able to execute powershell commands). […]
Read More »I needed to create a additional collection on the connection broker for a test environment. When the pool was created on the connection broker, when download the .rdp file from the RDWeb the .rdp file would be missing a lot of details and the computername field also would be empty. I’ve tried a lot of […]
Read More »I had a customer who wanted to run an excelscript daily but wanted to pay as little as possible for virtual machine hosting. I’ve configured the VM to start and stop automatically and used below command to let a user logon automatically at the start of Windows 10. $RegPath = “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon” Set-ItemProperty $RegPath “AutoAdminLogon” […]
Read More »When you or your client is using OneDrive for Business it might be hard to explain the difference between ‘OneDrive’ and ‘OneDrive for Business’ in the Explorer view, or you just want to remove it from the list. To do this you have to make a change in the Windows registry. # Windows+R type; regedit […]
Read More »When your experience your PC or laptop going into sleep mode randomly there a lot of things that could cause that. What resolved the issue for me is this: # Open command prompt as administrator and run the following command: REG ADD “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0” /v Attributes /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f # Restart the ‘explorer.exe’ process […]
Read More »It can happpen that you would need to edit the registery for a user, but regedit is disabled for the userprofile. There is an option to open registery settings for another user as the administrator; #1 Log in as Administrator and open regedit. #2 Select HKEY_USERS and then go to ‘File -> Load Hive #3 […]
Read More »For different reasons you want to check which files or folders are open on your Windows 2008 R2 (Terminal server). To do this you need to log on as an administrator. Go to: Start -> Administrative Tools -> Share and Storage management In the Action pane select ‘manage open files’ You will see a list […]
Read More »In some cases you want to delete all temporary internet files for every user on a terminal server at once. CTRL-ALT-DEL IT company made a tool for that ‘ICSweep’ it comes an their CAD_Utilitypack and is freeware. You can download the pack here: http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com.au/files/CAD_UtilPack.zip
Read More »To delete all the recycle bins at once you have to do the following: Open command prompt ‘cmd’ as administrator. Type: rd /s c:\$Recycle.Bin Type: y All recycle bins will now be emptied!
Read More »In this ‘how to’ I will describe how to install a Windows 2008 R2 server with IIS. I am using a Dell R210 II with a raid 1 configuration where I will install Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise edition (not needed). After you’ve installed Windows2008 R2 make sure you download and install all the latest updates […]
Read More »When on a Windows 2008 server you open command prompt and type: ipconfig /all you see there are 2 default gateways and that the first is 0.0.0.0. When you go over to IP settings you won’t see the 0.0.0.0 anywhere. To resolve this issue: run -> cmd typ: route delete 0.0.0.0 Now go back to […]
Read More »If you want to prevent windows from begin automatically arrange when moved to the edge of the screen you need can easily change this. Press the windows button and typ ‘snap’ choose ‘settings’ on click on ‘Turn of automatic window arrangement’. Then on the next screen you need to scroll down and select ‘Prevent windows […]
Read More »# Start -> Run -> type ‘diskpart’ without quotes # Once it’s loaded type: list disk This will display the current connected disks. # now type: select disk # (you need to replace # with the disk number you want to select). # type: clean # type: create partition primary # type select partition 1 […]
Read More »When for instance a VSS backup fails you can make sure the ‘VSS Writer’ for VSS backup is running. # Open command and type: vssadmin list writers # Now if you see for instance “Microsoft Exchange Writer” Status [7]: Failed # Now if you reset the Exchange store service the writer should and will go […]
Read More »First you have to make a script (.bat file) that you want to execute before windows login. If you want to start, for example Internet Explorer open Notepad en type: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe Now save the notepad file to a random name ending with the extension .bat Go to start -> run -> and type […]
Read More »Since a short time it’s now possible to change the DPI / text size inside a remote desktop session. When you install the hotfix (link below) the settings wont be grayed out anymore so you can change the DPI. Here you can read more about the HotFix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2726399 Download the HotFix: http://hotfixv4.microsoft.com/Windows%207/Windows%20Server2008%20R2%20SP1/sp2/Fix396134/7600/free/451041_intl_x64_zip.exe Note that you […]
Read More »Session (ID xx) remote control failed. (Error 5 – access is denied) When you recieve the above error in a Windows 2008 Terminal server environment you need to disable UAC. You disable UAC by doing the following: Start -> Control panel -> user accounts -> change user account settings -> now move it to the […]
Read More »When in Windows Backup 2008 you want to add an 2nd HDD target to your existing back-up schedule you get the error message: “The filename, directoryname or volume label syntax is incorrect” The solution is: Attach your 1st harddisk. You can only add an extra harddisk to your existing back-up schedule when your 1ste harddisk […]
Read More »When a users has an corrupt Windows profile or you just want to give the user a new profile, it’s not as easy as it was in Windows 2003, there you just go to the users direcotry and change the name of the user folder to for example username_old. When you do the same in […]
Read More »There is a simple command to find out the installation date of your windows Pc / server. Open a command prompt (Windows + R, type cmd) Then type: find /i “install date” You will get the output saying: Original Install Date: dd-mm-yyyy, 12:34:56
Read More »When you install windows 8 with for example a VLK iso, your installation probally wont activate. Here’s what you need to do: Press Windows + R and type ‘slui 3’ (without ”) A new windows will open, this is where you can type in a new License key.
Read More »When you get Error Code: 500 Internal server Error (12217) on a website hosted behind a ISA server, there is something going wrong with ‘special characters’ This is easy to fix: Open ISA management: # Rightclick the specific webrule and click ‘Configure HTTP’ # Deselect ‘Vericy normalization’ Apply, Apply, test it! It works! 🙂
Read More »When you print something in a Terminal service / rdp session with your Windows XP machine you will only find strange signs / symbols on the page you printed. There is an simple solution for this: # Close the remote desktop session. # Search on a PC with Windows 7 installed for the file: “TsWpfWrp.exe” in […]
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