Windows Server 2012 R2  – Deploying Remote Desktop Services
Jan18

Windows Server 2012 R2 – Deploying Remote Desktop Services

KB ID 0001136  Problem I’ve had to do a rollout of Remote Desktop Services on Server 2012 R2, and publish it with Active Directory Federation Services and Web Application Proxy. I’m a little rusty on RDS and needed to deploy a few roles, so for my proof of concept I deployed RDS on TWO servers. Below is a run though and my notes on deploying RDS ONLY (I’ll put the links to other articles at the bottom of this post as...

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Deploy ODBC Settings via Group Policy
Nov17

Deploy ODBC Settings via Group Policy

KB ID 0000805  Problem I’ve briefly mentioned this before when I wrote about Group Policy Preferences so when I had to do this on-site this week, I jumped straight into the group policy management console, and found that because my ODBC connection was using SQL authentication (with the SQL sa account), this would NOT WORK, (it only works with Windows authentication and even then it needs a tweak). If you are using SQL...

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