By default, Windows servers display lots of details when you logon to them and rarely leave you wondering what it’s doing. A while back I ran into an issue that was causing 15 minute login times when a user would log in to the computer for the first time. This was particularly a problem with…
A while back I saw someone’s computer that had a company logo in the Windows taskbar; it looked super slick. I wanted to duplicate the same thing in my setup. The documentation on what causes a company logo to show up in the search box in the Windows taskbar and the Windows start menu is…
Deploying the same taskbar to all users is a very nice quality of life improvement, as it can help eliminate the problems of users using Windows Mail instead of the already installed Microsoft Outlook. I opted to deploy a standard default taskbar using Microsoft Intune as Microsoft Office is a required application on all Intune…
I’ve been a fan of LAPS for a while and in 2023 Microsoft made LAPS even better by introducing a new version called Windows LAPS. Windows LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution) is a great tool for managing your local admin passwords. You might be thinking it’s ok I use one complicated password for my local…
There are many ways to generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) one of them is with IIS. What if you don’t have IIS or you want to be stubborn and not use IIS at all? In this post I will detail step-by-step how to generate a CSR using MMC (Microsoft Management Console).
Recently I needed to expand a disk on a Windows 10 VM and a Windows Server 2022 VM, but I couldn’t because the Recovery Partition was in the way. When searching for a way to do this I discovered that the internet is full of posts about simply deleting the Windows Recovery Partition. I am…
When you are managing devices with Microsoft Intune aka Microsoft Endpoint Manager it’s great to control BitLocker but silently enabling BitLocker for all devices is even better. Here is everything you need to know to silently enable BitLocker with Intune. Disk Encryption Policy Profile First up we need to create a disk encryption policy profile…
Intune aka Microsoft Endpoint Manager can be extremely powerful but as it always goes with great power comes great responsibility. To make sure I’m only targeting the devices I want, I like to make a few dynamic device groups that I’ll use for various Intune policy targeting. The dynamic device groups I create are: By…
When you install Windows it always creates a Recovery Partition, which runs a very lite version of Windows with a few tools. There’s been a few times where I’ve used those tools to fix a system. I wanted to know what would happen if I deleted the Recovery Partition. This is what I found down…
I needed to get geoSCOUT working in VMware Horizon but geoLOGIC doesn’t officially support publishing geoSCOUT to systems like Citrix, RD Web, and Horizon. Due to the way that geoSCOUT works you can’t just launch the geoSCOUT exe and have it work. On the first launch a user would normally run the geoSCOUT Desktop_Build_NonAdmin_v8.exe installer…
