Today I'm going to show you how to rectify an issue where a user gets a black screen when they log on to a Win 2012R2 RDP server and they then receive an error message saying: C:\Users\%username%\Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable... A screenshot of the error is as follows: Only one user…
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Win 10 Window Border Colours
Today I'm going to show you how to adjust the border colours for your application Windows in Windows 10. This will also work in Remote Desktop servers like Windows 2016 and 2019. The standard installation has basically no shadowing or colours around individual windows making it hard to distinguish which window has the focus and…
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Win 2016 GPO Software Restriction Policy Setup
Today I'm going to show you how to setup a Group Policy Object to prevent random software packages running under the users profile or other locations not authorised by you, the system administrator. Why is this important? It's important because, with prevalence of ransomware and other invasive malware, Software Restriction Policies will help you prevent…
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O365 Enable 2FA On Existing O365 Win 2016 RDP Users
In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to convert existing O365 users with 2FA disabled to O365 users with 2FA enabled. The scenario I'm working under in this example are users who have existing O365 logons in a Win 2016 RDP environment who we're migrating to 2FA, but this process will work even…
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