Category Archives: Sysadmin Stuff

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

phpMailer ERROR: AUTH not accepted from server:

Posted by dave on March 15, 2013 No comments

I wanted to use the Virgin Media SMTP server for a website running phpMailer. First of all the emails failed so I turned on errors with the following command:

It returned:

It turned out to be quite simple (ssl:// for the …

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IIS 7 Reverse Proxy with the Application Request Routing module

Posted by dave on March 15, 2013 No comments

I recently setup a new web server and wanted an easy way to point a public site to an internal server. Fortunately this is very easy in IIS, download both the URL Rewrite module and the Application Request Routing module: http://www.iis.net/download/URLRewrite http://www.iis.net/download/ApplicationRequestRouting Then, in the …

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Dynamics CRM 2011 script error with the Outlook 2013 plugin

Posted by dave on March 15, 2013 No comments

Having recently installed a fresh Dynamics CRM 2011 server, when trying to connect from the Outlook plugin I was receiving the following error:   “The value of the property ‘executeRibbonCommand’ is null or undefined, not a Function object”   Updating the Dynamics CRM 2011 …

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