Turn off the Upgrade to the latest version of Windows GPO
June 11, 2015 8 Comments
I was continuing the reinstall of my lab today, and noticed a new setting in the policy template.
You cannot restore files from Windows Server Essentials
June 10, 2015 4 Comments
You may be aware that a recent update broke the restore wizard that is a key component of client PC backup in Windows Server Essentials.
A hotfix was released that fixed the issue for Windows 7, but Windows 8 was not included.
Yesterday Microsoft updated the Hotfix to now include a Windows 8 version. Great news if you are waiting on file recovery. Slightly disappointing it has taken quite so long, but who knows maybe it was harder to fix on Windows 8!
SBS 2011 Essentials & UEFI Client Backups
June 8, 2015 3 Comments
I have been reinstalling my lab over the last week or so, moving away from a GUI based Server 2012 running Hyper-V, to the Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 OS. I am also now no longer having to swivel in my chair 90 degrees to manage the VMs, as i have installed the Hyper-V tools on my Desktop PC.
Anyway, as part of the rebuild i trashed all of my existing VMs and have built new ones. Starting with SBS 2011 Essentials. I installed, along side it, 2 clients. Windows 7 and Windows 8. I took advantage of the new Gen2 VM for Windows 8.1 and of course ran into an issue with the client backup.
There has been a hotfix available for this issue since at least 2013, so it was no surprise that i needed to download it. Read more of this post
Make IE prompt to remember password, again!
June 5, 2015 Leave a comment
I had saved a password in IE, for a website i regularly log in to. It is a shared supplier account, and for various reasons was changed recently. Unfortunately for me, on my Windows 8 PC at work, it was not prompting me to remember the new password, worse still, it was remembering the old password. Which i was not remembering to clear out, whilst also not remembering the new password. So you had IE not remembering, to remember to ask me to save the new password, and me not remembering to forget the saved password and not remembering the new password. Read more of this post
Populating Active Directory with Computer Information
June 4, 2015 Leave a comment
Here is a very quick tip i have employed to good effect at client sites.
It goes back to this very cool command i shared a few years ago now, here. Read more of this post
Hide Users from Essentials Dashboard 2011 & 2012
March 3, 2015 1 Comment
I wrote a blog post a few months back about how to use WSS PowerShell to hide Users from the Essentials 2012 R2 Dashboard. A commenter on that post asked whether or not we could do the same for 2012 R1. I know the PowerShell Support for R1 is not as rich as it is in R2, and sure enough i could not see a way to do it directly. But that just makes it more fun!
Enable UDP for RDP Gateway Essentials 2012 R2
February 3, 2015 4 Comments
A question via twitter prompted me to remember that Essentials 2012 (and R2) supports the use of UDP transport, just like any other Remote Desktop Gateway.
One of the things i do on the systems i manage is install the tools for RDP Gateway as soon as i have finished with the OS install. Saves you having to go looking for it later, which you would do now as we are going to look at it.
It is easy to install the tools if you do not already have them, as i posted just the other day.
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