Outlook 2013 (&2010): Pictures in Signature–How to?

In Outlook 2013 (& 2010) if you paste or insert an picture (e.g., Logo) in Signature Editor, it is not resizable. You are stuck and not able to do a correct sized picture in Logo. But No worries. There is an very simple trick that you can make the signature however you want. Click New … Continue reading Outlook 2013 (&2010): Pictures in Signature–How to? →

RDS 2012 R2–Single sign on using Windows Authentication for RDWeb page

WebSSO is great and it works beautifully if configured correctly. If you go https://rdwebserver.company.com/RDWeb, you will be presented with form based authentication page. What if we present the published apps/icons without presenting form-based authentication page, meaning use Kerberos or NTLM authentication with logged of user. This makes sense for internal corporate users, they are already … Continue reading RDS 2012 R2–Single sign on using Windows Authentication for RDWeb page →

RDS 2012: Profile Disks and Temp Profiles

The huge pain with using Profile Disks in Windows Server 2012 RDS is to dealing with TEMP profiles. When the user’s profile corrupts and started creating TEMP user profiles, Admins has to deal with fixing the issue and it’s NOT easy. But if you want to know how to fix it, here it is. 1. … Continue reading RDS 2012: Profile Disks and Temp Profiles →

Windows 8: All installed Applications in one folder like Mac OS X

If you liked how OS X have an Applications folder, you can do that in Windows 8.x also. It’s very easy. 1. Open Explorer 2. Go to a location where you want to create Applications Folder (e.g., Documents) 3. Create a new folder and rename the folder to Applications.{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1} 4. That’s all. Open the Applications … Continue reading Windows 8: All installed Applications in one folder like Mac OS X →

Exchange 2010 (& Service Pack) Setup: A Restart from a Previous Installation is Pending

Exchange 2010 or Exchange 2010 Service Pack fails on Exchange Analyzer on checking pre-requisites. This should be easy to resolve. If you are seeing this same error after reboot, there must be orphaned registry values left from previous setup files. Check and fix the following two registry keys and setup should continue normally. To remove … Continue reading Exchange 2010 (& Service Pack) Setup: A Restart from a Previous Installation is Pending →

Windows 8.1: Easy Shutdown method for touch screen computers

The straight forward method of shutdown the Windows 8.x tablets is bring the charms bar (slide from right to left on the right side of the screen), click Settings, Power and then Shutdown. (Well, you can press and hold the power button too). To make things little easier you can place a tile/icon on the … Continue reading Windows 8.1: Easy Shutdown method for touch screen computers →

Windows Installer: The feature you are trying to use…

If you are stuck on Windows Installer error dialog box saying: The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable. No worries. This is related to Cached Installers issue. Microsoft support got your back. They have an handy dandy Microsoft Fix It program to fix the Windows Installer issues. … Continue reading Windows Installer: The feature you are trying to use… →

Windows Script: “WScript.CreateObject: Could not locate automation class named “WScript.Network”

When I run my VBScript Windows Script ActiveX libraries are not loading. I was getting "WScript.CreateObject: Could not locate automation class named "WScript.Network". Solution: for 32bit OS: Open command prompt Type regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\wshom.ocx Type regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\scrrun.dll for 64bit OS: Open command prompt Type regsvr32 c:\windows\SysWOW64\wshom.ocx Type regsvr32 c:\windows\SysWow64\scrrun.dll That's all. Your script should now work.

Windows 8.1: Photo Slide Show on your Lock Screen

When you lock your Windows 8.1 computer/tablet, it shows the your default logon screen picture. You can enable photo slide show on your lock screen. To do this, make sure you have some photos or picture readily available on your Pictures folders (or anywhere on the computer hard disk). Open PC Settings (Move your mouse … Continue reading Windows 8.1: Photo Slide Show on your Lock Screen →

Windows 8.1/Windows Server 2012 R2: Task Manager Gadget on your desktop

How about to display CPU,Memory, Disk and Network performance details on your desktop without any third-party software? Windows 8.1 has built-in cool display, gadget like, in Task Manager application. It looks like this: With that you can monitor you computer/server performance at a glance. To get this view, Open Task Manager (right lick on … Continue reading Windows 8.1/Windows Server 2012 R2: Task Manager Gadget on your desktop →