To enable certificates button on Internet Explorer from GPO:
User Configuration—>Administrative template—>Windows Components—>Internet Explorer
Set “Disable changing certificate settings” to Disabled
Lync Online – Add company name to lync contact card
To add Company name to lync contact card, run this in powershell
$User = "xxxxxxxxx" $PWord = Read-Host 'What is your password?' -AsSecureString $cred = New-Object –TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential –ArgumentList $User, $PWord $s = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection $importresults = Import-PSSession $s get-user | Set-User -Company "COMPANYNAME" get-user | ft name, Company
Windows 8.1 RemoteApp stuck on preparing windows
We had a issue with a new Windows 8.1 install, when the user login to the RemoteApp Web Access Portal, and opened a Remoteapp, it´s just stuck on “Preparing Windows”, the same thing happens if i used the RemoteApp and Desktop Connections from the control panel.
To fix it i added the RD Web Access url to trusted sites in Internet Explorer.
example: *rds.company.com
Install Alibaba Trade Manager Silent
To install Alibaba Trade Manager silent from command line / GPO / SCCM download the Alibaba Trade Manager Installer from here:
http://trademanager.alibaba.com/
Run this command to install it silent – (NOTE: the /S is Case-Sensitive)
AliIM2014_ATM(7.02.03E).exe /S
Java application blocked for security
To fix this Java issue you have to lower the security 🙁
Go to
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\lib\security”
open the file “java.security”
Look for this line
jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, RSA keySize < 1024
Change 1024 to 256 and save.
That worked for me.
RDS 2012: Publish apps installed on a network share
From Server Manager it´s not possible to publish an application from a Network shared folder, But from Powershell you can do it, here is how:
New-RDRemoteApp -Alias "App Name" -CollectionName "Collection" -DisplayName "APP DisplayName" -FilePath "\\server01\apps\app.exe" -ConnectionBroker connectionbroker.domain.local
Fix: Windows Stuck in a “Preparing Automatic Repair” loop
If you Windows is stuck in a rebooting loop “rebooting into Windows recovery / repair mode”
put in a Windows disc and start a commandline and run this command to disabled it:
bcdedit /set {current} recoveryenabled No
Windows 8.1 Logon Scripts Runs 5 Minutes Delayed
In Windows 8.1 Microsoft made a bigger change related to desktop performance.
By default Users logon scripts is 5 minutes delayed.
To disabled or reduce the delay between user logon and when the scripts run, find this policy in Group policy Editor
“Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Group Policy\Configure Logon Script Delay”
Adobe Reader XI – An internal error occurred
I installed Adobe Reader XI on our Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS servers, and we start to get this error when we started Adobe Reader.
After some time on Google i found out that disabling Adobe Reader XI sandbox protection mode fixed the error.
go to the registry and find this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\11.0\FeatureLockDown
Create a new REG_DWORD
Value Name
bProtectedMode
Value Data
0
PowerShell: Change Automatic Start Action on Hyper-V VM`s
To easy change Automatic Start Action on all runnings VM´s on your Hyper-V server run this command:
Get-VM | Where { $_.State –eq ‘Running’ } | Set-VM -AutomaticStartAction StartIfRunning
To validate it run this command:
Get-VM | Where { $_.State –eq ‘Running’ } | ft Name, AutomaticStartAction -AutoSize