IT Pro and Gadgeteer
Normally, I close my laptop, it goes to sleep, I open it and all is good. However after obviously fiddling with it, because that’s what I do, it seemed to no longer be going to sleep. From an admin command … Read More »
I had been using TeamViewer to remote into a couple of machines at home, but for one reason or another, one box stopped letting me in because it thought i was using it commercially. I did a re-install but that … Read More »
This was a very strange, intermittent issue. Using Remote Desktop Gateway on Windows Server 2012, all users had been able login and connect to their desktop remotely by clicking on the Desktop pool icon in RDWeb. Everything had been perfectly … Read More »
I recently uninstalled some software and then when opening scheduled tasks I was getting the error: “An error has occurred for task…” However, I couldn’t view or remove the task. To fix this, head to the following registry location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows … Read More »
I recently received the error “The remote session was disconnected because there are no Remote Desktop Licence Servers available to provide a license. Please contact the server administrator” when connecting to my VDI via my thin client. I spoke with … Read More »
To speed up the VDI setup, I wanted all Windows 7/8 machines to be set to best performance, but there doesn’t appear to be a GP option for this. For refernce, this can be controlled via the registry by using … Read More »
While sysprepping my golden image for my VDI collection I got this error: Most people who got this was because the rearm count had been reached, but that was not the case for me. Use this command to check: slmgr /dlv … Read More »
By the looks of things, the option to auto-login is disabled when a box joins a domain, I guess this makes sense security wise. It can be overridden however, using this little utility: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963905.aspx This basically just changes the following … Read More »
Following a dodgy Java virus on friday on a Windows 7 machine, I was unable to open .exe files. I removed the virus with MalwareBytes A bit of googling revealed this page which has some nice registry fixes for various … Read More »