Restore the Windows 11 Right Click Menu
Windows 11 Right Click KB ID 0001819 Problem The first time I saw this I thought “Where’s cut/copy/paste gone?”. But more annoyingly ‘Send To” is also not on the initial menu! Solution: Restore Windows 11 Right Click Open an Administrative PowerShell window. Issue the following three commands. (New-Item ‘HKCU:\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32’...
Microsoft Edge Multiple Statup Pages (via GPO)
Microsoft Edge KB ID 0001818 Problem Controlling Microsoft Edge with Group Policy is pretty straight forward, you just need to ensure the msedge.admx and msedgeupdates.admx files have been added to your policy definitions store in the right folders. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, see the following article. Microsoft Edge on Server 2019/2016 (and Citrix) Then you can deploy group policies to your...
NameSpace ‘Microsoft.Policies.WindowsStore’ Error
Microsoft.Policies.WindowsStore KB ID 0001817 Problem While working in the Group Policy Management tool, upon expanding administrative templates I got this error. Namespace ‘Microsoft.Policies.WindowsStore’ is already defined as the target namespace for another file in the store. Solution: Microsoft.Policies.WindowsStore Error This is because in your policy definitions there are two (four actually) files that are pointing...
Disable LLMNR and NetBIOS (via GPO)
Disable LLMNR and NetBIOS KB ID 0001816 Problem LLMNR is a protocol that’s used both in IPv4 and IPv6 networks to provide name resolution (in the absense of DNS), the problem with it is that it is wide open to exploitation and can be used to perform a MITM attack on your network. NetBIOS is much older and asscociated with IPv4 networks only. Really old Microsoft OSs used to rely on it heavily, but these days its pretty much...
Restore AD Objects
Restore AD Objects KB ID 0000096 Problem Ever since we had Server 2008 R2 we have had the AD recycle bin (which is not enabled by default). Even if you have not enabled the AD Recycle bin, when objects are deleted from AD they are not completely ‘deleted’ they are simply tombstoned, and they can be restored (for 180 days). Note: Those object’s when restored WILL lose some of their attributes though! CAN I RESTORE AD...