You can create local group policies that affect non-administrators only (or even specific users). This can be useful to keep non administrator users from doing things such as: Power off the server See or access certain files Run or not run certain programs See icons Hide or Disable control panel items And much more…. Modifying […]
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We have had issues where RDP users haven’t been able to login on a remote desktop terminal server when the “user much change password at next logon” button has been checked in user properties – see screenshot #1 below. Various comments and posts online indicate that changes in the windows authentication process in recent OS […]
This post is about how to shadow a session if the server is not connected to a domain. If the server is connected to a domain, you can go to server manager, RDS Manager, and right click on current sessions to shadow and connect. When the server is in Workgroup mode (not connected to domain) […]
Issue: Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 reboots after installing Windows Updates during inconvenient times that don’t make sense and you would like to modify settings in a more similar way as with Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows 2012 by default restarts 3 days after the installation of Windows Updates instead of 15 minutes which […]
By default, Remote Desktop Services allows users to disconnect from a remote session without logging off the server and ending the session. When a session is in a disconnected state, running programs are kept active even though the user is no longer actively connected. A disconnected session continues to consume server resources and we recommend […]
Automatically launching a program or application upon login to a Remote Desktop Session. See below for methods to use the “start program at login” policy which can be configured per user. Another method to limit specific programs to a user is via RemoteApp. We have several other posts regarding RemoteApp and how to set it […]
The most recent Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview iso is so large that only some DVDs readers can read it. Example try loading it on a Dell PowerEdge server. The iso was greater than 4.7GB and therefore was not burnable on the single layer DVDs we had. Simply copying the iso to a USB thumb drive will error […]
Many people want to use a domain name instead of the IP address of their remote desktop terminal server to login via the Remote Desktop Connection Client (RDC) on their local machine. A domain name is more professional and easier to remember. For example, if you already own the domain www.Denver-Colocation.com and it points to […]
Recently while expanding the disk size on a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM, we received an error message pop-up saying “the parameter is incorrect”. We noticed that Disk Management was now showing the correct updated disk size but the incorrect original (smaller) size was still showing in windows explorer properties and in server manager. We […]
You download and run the Microsoft Web Platform Installer wpilauncher.exe file. Then click on Applications link on the top of the page and then select WordPress and click the Install button. First download and run the Microsoft Web Platform Installer wpilauncher.exe file. Second select Applications link at the top. Third select wordpress by clicking ‘Add’ […]