Windows Power Essentials Tips & Tricks
January 29, 2015 Leave a comment
A question in the SBS Forum led me to this post, a quick way to prevent a Surface Pro 3 from applying a given GPO.
The way i suggested the poster do this was with a WMI Filter. Read more of this post
January 23, 2015 62 Comments
Regular readers will no doubt be aware of the script i wrote about two years ago to alert a user their password was about to expire. If not, just what exactly have you been doing with your time?
In any case, several people have asked me if it can be made to work with Office 365. Using 365 as the email relay to send the messages, was one thing, querying 365 for a users password expiry, was something else. Something which at the time i believe could not be done.
Given they constantly release new features and tweaks, i revisited it this week and found that actually it can now be done, with a few tweaks to the original script.
January 23, 2015 3 Comments
Your computer can’t connect to the remote computer because your computer or device did not pass the Network Access Protection requirements set by your administrator.
Had an email from a friend today, who had an Essentials 2012 R2 Server with a problem when trying to use the Remote Desktop feature of RWA. They were presented with this warning message,
January 22, 2015 2 Comments
Finally moving my last client from Symantec SEPM to Trend Micros WFBS Hosted platform. It was a small SEPM deployment, only 7 clients and a server but i was surprised to be reminded that SEPM has no ‘uninstall’ tool from their console. So much for centralised management.
I did a lot of searching around for a reliable solution, most of which came back to using MSIEXEC from a command line.
There are various ways of course to execute a command on a remote machine, you can use PSTools’, PSExec for example, but i prefer to use PowerShell where i can. Read more of this post
September 18, 2014 19 Comments
If you have installed Exchange 2013 into your Essentials network, chances are upon loading the dashboard you will see a large amount of new users appear, you may even notice an alert telling you, you have too many users!
These are all of the exchange service accounts, and you may decide you don’t want them to appear in your dashboard.
September 18, 2014 4 Comments
Just a quick post to say i have posted a script that works with GFIs RMM platform to monitor Client Backups for Windows Server Essentials.
September 18, 2014 10 Comments
Back in 2012 i wrote a script to help me remind users about their password expiry, to reduce the number of calls i got on the helpdesk. I decided to share it and published it on the TechNet Gallery,
It has been quite popular since then, with over 8,000 downloads! Read more of this post
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