On my Windows 10, I found the network is set to Public network. That means you can't share anything to/from other computers. When you connect to a new network, Windows gives you an option to share files with another computer on the network. If you check that box, the network is flagged as Private. If … Continue reading Windows: How to change the network from Public to Private?
Category: Windows Server
Group Policy is failed to update on Windows 10 computer
On my Windows 10 computer, I found Group Policy is not being applied anymore. If I ran group policy update on a administrative command shell, I get this: PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> gpupdate /force Updating policy... Computer Policy update has completed successfully. User Policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were encountered: The processing of … Continue reading Group Policy is failed to update on Windows 10 computer
IIS: Publish Windows Share to WebDAV site
Publishing local folders as WebDAV site is very easy with IIS. There is plenty of help available that. BUT there is not much help on publishing a Windows share via WebDAV. So I decided to publish one after we successfully published it at my work. It works beautifully. One Liner: The trick is to replace … Continue reading IIS: Publish Windows Share to WebDAV site
RDS 2012R2/Profile Disk: Adobe Reader X says “There was an error opening this document. Access Denied”
PDF attachments from application is not opening correctly. Adobe Reader spits this error message. We use RDS 2012 R2 and Profile Disks for the users. Somehow PDF files on the profile disk is having same issue with Adobe Reader. Solution: It turn out to be new Adobe Reader software has Protected Mode feature. This feature … Continue reading RDS 2012R2/Profile Disk: Adobe Reader X says “There was an error opening this document. Access Denied”
WebDAV: Increasing Maximum File Size Limit in Windows Server
Windows (IIS) server based WebDAV server has "laughable" file size limit for download or uploads to/from the server. It turn out to be the restriction is on the client side (Windows). Microsoft says the reason for this restriction is, This issue occurs because a security change that was introduced in Windows XP SP2 affects the Web … Continue reading WebDAV: Increasing Maximum File Size Limit in Windows Server
Citrix/RDS: Publish Internet Explorer without Address Bar
Publishing IE for a web application without address bar is easier than you think. Simply publish the following VBScript or PowerShell script to launch IE without address bar and go to specific intranet website. Copy either one of the script into Notepad and save as LaunchIE.vbs for vbscript OR LaunchIE.PS1 for PowerShell. Change the website … Continue reading Citrix/RDS: Publish Internet Explorer without Address Bar
RDS: Trusting the certificate used for publishing by GPO
When you run a published RDS RemoteApp and you are getting this following warning dialog box, that means the certificate used to publish the RemoteApp is not in trusted by the local computer. “A website wants to run a RemoteApp program. Make sure that you trust the publisher before you connect to run the program.” … Continue reading RDS: Trusting the certificate used for publishing by GPO
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 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 2008 R2–RDS: “RemoteApp program is not in the list of authorized programs”
On Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS platform, you published a in-built programs like Notepad or Wordpad. You tried to access/run the published program using Remote Desktop Web Access, you end up seeing this message: When this happened to me, I found no real answers on the Internet. But the resolution I figured out myself … Continue reading Windows 2008 R2–RDS: “RemoteApp program is not in the list of authorized programs”
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