Remove the Network link from Windows Explorer
By default can browse the network with the network icon in Windows Exlorer. If for some reason you don’t want this, make this change. Solution: Make a change to the Registry by using a GPO Open your...
View ArticlePrinters shortcut with printer location (Classic layout)
In Server 2008R2 and Windows 7 you have a link in your start menu to Devices and Printers, but this new layout isn’t showing the printer comment and location. Solution: Create a new shortcut to...
View ArticleShow mail icon in control panel
With the lockdown of Server 2008R2 RDS you have the opperunity to show only specific control panel items. So i want to show my users the Mail icon. Solution: In your Lockdown GPO go to: Users,...
View ArticleForce Classic Control Panel
Most often you want to restrict access to control panel items, but you probably want to see some icons (for example Regional Settings, Mouse and Mail). By default Server 2008R2 only shows the...
View ArticleShow password expires balloon notification
Users have to be notified on time to change their password, but what if that notification isn’t displayed? Solution: Set the prompt user to change password notification Open your RDS Machine Policy Go...
View ArticleChange tray Balloon Tip display time
The balloon tip to change your password is only shown for a few seconds. Often users complain that they can’t read the balloon tip that fast. So we have to increase the display time of the balloon....
View ArticleRDS 2008R2 Basic Machine Policy
When you are deploying your RDS servers you probably (like me) want to make everything managable from a single point. So i don’t like to make a lot of changes to the local system by hand, but i prefer...
View ArticleShow Computer icon on Desktop
Windows 2008R2 gives the user a clean desktop, so the computer icon is nowhere to find and since now all users now the keyboard shortcut ( WINkey+e ) … let’s put the icon back on the desktop. Solution:...
View ArticleEventid 1060 – Terminal Services User Home Directory was not set
Eventid 1060 (source:TerminalServices-RemoteConnectionManager) is logged in the System logs with the following error: The Terminal Services User Home Directory was not set because the path specified...
View ArticleRestore .zip association back to Windows default Compressed (zipped) Folder...
Windows can unzip compressed files / folders out of the box. Sometimes other programs are installed to take advantage of more options which the Windows compression tool doesn’t have. But sometimes a...
View ArticleRDP session slow on configuring remote session
When connecting to a server with the Remote Desktop Client i noticed after authenticating to a server it can (sometimes) take up to 20 seconds to configure the remote session. Why does this take so...
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