Windows Server 2008 – Enable Aero
KB ID 0000321 Problem You might ask why? But I needed to do this the other day for some screen shots, and if I had to work out how to do it then someone else will want to use Aero on Windows Server 2008. Besides I’ve seem people running this OS on their Laptops etc, so if it were me, I’d rather look at Aero than the standard windows “Theme”. Solution Minimum Requirements for Aero CPU = 1 GHz or Higher RAM = 1...
Windows Server – Disable Password Complexity
KB ID 0000324 Problem If you are unsure what password complexity is click here. Bear in mind that it’s there for valid security reason, the more complex your passwords are, the more secure your network is. However the vast majority of users can even remember where they saved their last Word document, never mind a complex password that changes every 30 days. If your data is not the sort of data that Tom Cruise would abseil down...
Windows Server – Enable Multiple RDP sessions
KB ID 0000471 Problem Server 2012/2008 R2 unlike their predecessors, comes with the multiple remote desktop session restriction enabled. If you are only connecting to a server for remote administration purposes that can get a bit annoying, especially if you have a generic administrative account that multiple techs are using, and you keep kicking each other off the server. Just as with earlier versions of Windows server you CAN have...
RDS Server – Remove the Shutdown Command
KB ID 0000499 Problem I’m surprised that when you make a server a Terminal Services Server / Remote Desktop Services Server, that this does not get applied from an administrative template anyway, but it does not. Why would you want to do this? Well users are used to hitting Start > Shutdown, when they are finished working, which is fine, unless they are in a terminal session with 500 other users and they’ve just issued...
Windows Server 2008 R2 Deploying Applications with RemoteApp
KB ID 0000528 Problem RemoteApp is a solution for delivering applications to your users from a Remote Desktop Services Server. Why would you want to do this? Imagine you only had one copy of office to update in your entire organisation when a new service pack or security update is released., or Adobe bring out a new version of Dreamweaver that’s on all your machines – you simply update the master copy on the RDS server, or...