Category Archives: Sysadmin Stuff

Removing the “Do you trust this printer” message box

Posted by dave on May 6, 2013 No comments

When changing printers recently  I noticed when testing that users would receive the following message: This was a bit of a pain so I set about looking to remove this via Group Policy. The option I settle on was documented here, but basically involved adding the following …

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PPTP VPN on Windows 8 through Cisco ASA5510

Posted by dave on May 6, 2013 No comments

I came across this error on my Windows 8 VDI, basically I couldn’t create a PPTP VPN Connection to an external site. I tried the same connection from a separate WiFi connection and it worked perfectly, leading me to think that something on the …

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SQL 2012 DPM Backup Failure – The SQL Server instance refused the connection

Posted by dave on May 6, 2013 No comments

Some of my DPM Backups on a new 2012 box were failing with the error The fix can be found here and is pretty straight forward. Add the account NT_AUTHORITY\System to have sysadmin priviledges within SSMS. Once added you should receive no more …

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Creating Temporary VM Pools for Server O/S’s using RDV_ROLLBACK

Posted by dave on May 6, 2013 No comments

I had a situation where some users needed a temporary machine, mostly for creating documentation and taking screenshots on a fresh install that hadn’t been modified. I created a desktop pool for some Windows 7 and Windows 8 VM’s and set them …

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Server 2012 Virtual Desktop Collection Save Delay

Posted by dave on May 6, 2013 No comments

I finally figured out what this option was when configuring a virtual desktop collection. It basically will save the virtual machine if it has been inactive for the specified number of minutes. Seems pretty obvious now, a bot more documentation …

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Error Connecting to TMG server with PRTG

Posted by dave on May 6, 2013 No comments

When attempting to add a TMG server to PRTG, the following error was thrown up: “RPC Server not accessible” To resolve this, in TMG add a new rule for TMG Access from the monitoring server. Select it and go to “Configure …

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Windows update failure on TMG 2010 server, Error 80072EE2

Posted by dave on April 14, 2013 No comments

My TMG 2010 proxy server refused to update. Every other server updates correctly using my internal WSUS server, so it had to be a setting within TMG. Turns out that it was and it pretty simple to fix the best guide that …

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Setting a thin client locale and region settings with WES7

Posted by dave on April 14, 2013 No comments

I recently go my newest thin client image all lovely and working, but when I rolled it out all the settings, including the IE Homepage, keyboard layout and regional settings had all gone back to US – doh! Turns out that the …

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Desktop shortcut for display settings

Posted by dave on April 14, 2013 No comments

For my recent thin client image, users needed the ability to change the screen resolution (the VDI’s inherit the TC resolution) a simple desktop shortcut and icon works well for this. For reference: control desk.cpl,1,4 %windir%\System32\control.exe desk.cpl,1,4