Windows – Deploy and Configure Photo Screen Saver via GPO
Screen Saver via GPO KB ID 0001281 Problem I was tasked with working out how to do this for a client a couple of weeks ago, so I thought it would make a decent article. I’m going to have a central server share, with some photos in, then I’m going to copy them down to all the clients, and finally set their screen saver to use those photos as a ‘slide show’ screen saver. I’ve done this with Windows 10...
Windows RDWeb – Remote Desktop Shortcut Missing
KB ID 0001208 Problem As soon as you start publishing apps to your RDWeb server the ‘Remote Desktop’ icon disappears. Now there’s a good reason for this, it stops users having a desktop open, then opening apps on multiple different servers, and the whole thing turning into a resources nightmare. But what if you only have one RDS server? Solution To get the shortcut back you need to change a registry key. Navigate...
Event ID 36888
KB ID 0000634 Problem This was driving me nuts on my Windows 7 x64 Laptop. Log Name: System Source: Schannel Event ID: 36888 Task Category: None Level: Error User: SYSTEM Description: The following fatal alert was generated: 10. The internal error state is 10. I was getting a dozen of these an hour! Solution This error is caused (from what I can gather) by an error in certificate negotiation, your machine is trying to initiate...
VMware VI Client – Remove Cached IP addresses and Hostnames
KB ID 0000644 Problem If you connect to a lot of ESX, ESXi and vCenter machines, the drop down list in your VI client can get a little cluttered. Solution 1. Start > Run > Regedit {enter} 2. Navigate to; HKEY_CURRENT_CURRENT_USERSoftwareVMwareVMware Infrastructure ClientPreferences Locate the ‘RecentConnections’ string value, and either delete them all, (or just the ones you no longer need). 3. Now things will be a...
Windows Change the RDP (Remote Desktop) Listening Port
KB ID 0000166 Problem If you didn’t already know the Remote Desktop Protocol Port is TCP 3389, that fine but what if you want to change it to something else? That begs another question, Why? Well some people like to change the port to something else, so that different ports are open in the even of a nasty type performing a port scan on your machine/firewall, even the most clueless script kiddies know that if they see TCP 3389...