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Microsoft Licensing for Remote Desktop Users and MS Office Users

On our Windows VMs, we provide the Microsoft licensing (Windows Server licensing on all, and when needed: MS Office (or a component such as MS Access or MS Excel), Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and SQL Server). In fact, our users cannot use their own Microsoft licensing on our Windows VMs. If a client want to […]

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Adjusting Server Manager settings on 2016 so it doesn’t automatically start upon login

Adjusting Server Manager settings to it doesn’t automatically start upon login (or turn it back on) Update: the steps below for modifying auto-start for server manager within the server manager GUI will only affect the user account under which it is being set.  To change the auto-start behavior for all users to not automatically start, […]

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Adjusting Server Manager settings on 2012R2 so it doesn’t automatically start upon login

Adjusting Server Manager settings to it doesn’t automatically start upon login (or turn it back on) Update: the steps below for modifying auto-start for server manager within the server manager GUI will only affect the user account under which it is being set.  To change the auto-start behavior for all users to not automatically start, […]

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How to modify timing of Windows Updates in 2012 / 2012 R2 to control timing of updates and restarts

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 […]

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How to set time limit for disconnected sessions Windows Server 2012R2

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 […]

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Reducing size of WinSxS directory on Windows Server 2008 R2

UPDATE FOR 2012 R2: The Desktop Experience feature is still required to be installed for Disk Cleanup to be available.  The Desktop Experience feature is listed under “User Interfaces and Infrastructure” when installing the feature – see Microsoft TechNet link here:      http://blogs.technet.com/b/rmilne/archive/2013/07/11/install-desktop-experience-on-windows-server-2012.aspx    Disk Cleanup can then be found on the Tools menu in Server Manager. […]

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Riptide Hosting partners with IT consultants

We work with many IT consultants/firms that use our hosting services for their clients.  Our premium hosting services are a good fit for IT consultants with clients looking to migrate servers to a datacenter/cloud, upgrade from older operating systems such as Windows 2003 or move to a hosting provider with superior bandwidth, infrastructure and redundancy.  […]

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Riptide Hosting – Dedicated Server Hosting, Virtual Server Hosting and Colocation

We offer many types of hosting – below is a discussion of some of our different offerings.   Remote desktop (terminal) server hosting can be installed on either a dedicated server or a virtual server.  Virtual Servers Our virtual server hosting offering is a great fit for companies needing a VM to host an application via […]

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Riptide Hosting – Why Hosting and Why Riptide?

Hosting your applications, programs and server infrastructure in a datacenter has many advantages versus utilizing a desktop/server in your office including security, redundancy, blended bandwidth, uptime, centralization for easier management, enterprise class equipment and infrastructure, etc. There any many different types of hosting (virtual private servers, dedicated servers, colocation, shared hosting, remote desktop hosting formerly […]