Tag Archives: 2008R2 RDS

Windows can unzip compressed files / folders out of the box. Sometimes other programs are installed to take advantage of more options which the Windows compression tool doesn’t have. But sometimes a user does some of this magic and tries to open a .zip file with another program which of course won’t extract the contents. When you are on a …

The balloon tip to change your password is only shown for a few seconds. Often users complain that they can’t read the balloon tip that fast. So we have to increase the display time of the balloon. Solution: Make a change to the Registry by using a GPO Open your RDS Server User Policy and expand the following folders: User …

Users have to be notified on time to change their password, but what if that notification isn’t displayed?

Most often you want to restrict access to control panel items, but you probably want to see some icons (for example Regional Settings, Mouse and Mail). By default Server 2008R2 only shows the categories and not the individual icons. Let’s make it the classic look, so we see our icons right away. Solution: Make a change to the Registry by using a GPO …