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Terminal Server users logging on to terminal server continually receive the Windows Update popup ” Restart your computer to finish installing important updates” every 10 minutes. They’re only option is to select “Postpone” to make...
Easy Print is a new feature of a Windows 2008 Server R2 Terminal Server. You’ll see the term “terminal server” and “remote desktop services” referenced throughout this post. These are synonymous. Microsoft changed the...
If all of a sudden you find yourself fighting a disk space issue on your server or servers where the System Volume Information is taking too much disk space on a particular partition, then...
Applying Microsoft security patches to servers can be a tedious and thankless job, especially if you have several hundred servers scattered all over the network. Depending on how large your organization is, this can...
If you find yourself attempting to install the SCCM 2012 agent and the Endpoint Protection 2012 agent on a server in the DMZ, follow these instructions to protect your DMZ servers. Also, if you...
During high peaks of email, especially during the holiday season, you may notice delay notifications stating that email has been queued and/or delayed. When this happens, check the Exchange 2010 HUB servers for the...
Ran into the following issue where the SYSVOL contents were not replicating to one or more servers. Group policies are stored in the SYSVOL folder therefore group policy was not replicating. Active Directory synchronization...
It seems with Exchange 2010 SP1 and Outlook 2010, whenever you grant FULL permissions to someone’s mailbox, add the mailbox to your Outlook profile and then need to remove the additional mailbox from your...
While using Robocopy to copy files to a new server running Windows 2008 R2, I noticed some folders looked like they were hidden (the folder was faded, it looked like it was hidden). After...
For some reason, the Global Address List (GAL) and/or Offline Address Book (OAB) generation may stop generating every once in a while. When this happens, folks using the Microsoft Outlook client connecting to a...
Deploying a common desktop wallpaper via group policy is very easy. There are two main things you need to do. 1. Distribute the image file to a central location throughout the network 2. Create a...
Setting the time zone on computers via a group policy object (GPO) is a common requirement and very easy to do. I recently found myself rolling out a new server and computers in the...
