Category Archive for "Windows Server"

Win 2012R2 RDP Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable

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…

14/01/2020

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Remote Desktop, Windows Server

RDP Server, Remote Desktop, Win 2012R2

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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…

07/11/2019

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Windows Server

GPO, Software Restriction Policy, Win 2016

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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…

05/10/2019

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Office 365, Windows Server

Office 365, Windows 2016

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ATO AUSkey Chrome Extension on RDS Server with AppLocker

Just a very quick post today to outline how to get the ATO AUSkey software working on a Windows 2019 RDS Server where users have User Profile Disks and AppLocker is employed. I had a hell of a time trying to figure out why it would refuse to run, so hopefully this saves you some…

20/09/2019

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ASUSkey, RDS Server, Win 2019

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