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The default self-signed Exchange 2010 certificate is valid for a period of 5 years. It’s pretty easy to forget about the certificate’s expiration date unless you’ve set a reminder of some sort. Depending on...
You can restrict remote desktop users to a single session on a Windows RDS or Terminal server. This is the default behavior out of the box. However, I’ve seen instances where it can cause...
Ever need to force the display Windows Terminal Server grace period balloon to find out how many days left you have of the 120 day grace period when first setting up an RDS or...
Terminal Server users logging on to terminal server continually receive the Windows Update popup ” Restart your computer to finish installing important updates” every 10 minutes. They’re only option is to select “Postpone” to make...
Ever since the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft began storing windows updates in a folder named Winsxs. Many of us can remember with XP and Windows Server 2003 when the Windows updates were stored...
If all of a sudden you find yourself fighting a disk space issue on your server or servers where the System Volume Information is taking too much disk space on a particular partition, then...
While using Robocopy to copy files to a new server running Windows 2008 R2, I noticed some folders looked like they were hidden (the folder was faded, it looked like it was hidden). After...
Setting the time zone on computers via a group policy object (GPO) is a common requirement and very easy to do. I recently found myself rolling out a new server and computers in the...
