Say what? This is probably well known by people that knows Linux a little more than average. I often have Kali Linux running on Hyper-V and I often struggle with resolution using the native Hyper-V console. After a little research I found out that I can install xrdp on the Kali machine and be able […]
Do you get this error message when you create an account and set thechange password at next login? Well, then I got “good” news for you. This will be fixed in Service Pack 2 of Windows Server 2008R2 / Windows 7. In the meantime you can install 2 hotfixes. One on the server and one […]
I experienced a very strange issue on a Windows 2008 SP1 R2 Terminal Server. When a user attached an attachment from a network share in Outlook 2010, a dialog box came up stating the attachment was downloading. Outlook was slow, and both Outlook and Explorer.exe was getting “application errors”. The server was slower and slower, […]
I have noticed that when you disable IE enhanced security in the server manager it is not disabled for the users. MS documentation also states that it will automatically be disabled for normal users. Here is the screenshots of the server manager part where you configure this: This GUI controls the behavior of the following […]
Got this error on a Windows 2008 R2 Terminal Server. This server also hosted the Terminal Server lisencing service. The Remote Desktop license server cannot update the license attributes for user “USER” in the Active Directory Domain “DOMAIN”. Ensure that the computer account for the license server is a member of Terminal Server License Servers […]
This is primary notes for my self, because for some reason I always spend much time dealing with this during installation of Remote Desktop Servers. First of all there is a part of Windows that is called ActiveX Installer Service that needs to be configured. This is default enabled in Windows 7. In Vista you […]
I normally use preferences. The only problem with this is that it is actually a preference. This means that if the user wants to he can overwrite it. I know it will be set at next logon with preferences. But if you want a setting to be “persistent” on the user you can add the […]
You often want to redirect start menu and Desktop folders to another location when you configure a terminal server farm. I often redirect this to C:custom. This is because I do not want to rely on another server in the network to display the start menu and desktop to the users. The only downside is […]