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When running the RDS server on VMware you will find the VMware tools icon in the system tray. But users really don’t need / want to the icon, so let’s make it dissapear. Solution: Make a change to the Registry by using a GPO Open your RDS Server Machine Policy and expand the following folders: Computer Configuration, Preferences, Registry Right …

Every users needs to have the Computer icon on the desktop, but when you allow right clicking to see the context menu the users will also find the Manage button. All though the user can’t use the mmc, i don’t want them to see the option at all. Solution: Make a change to the Registry by using a GPO Open …

By default every user will get two pinned icons on his or her taskbar when logging on to the RDS server. This is very annoying because users don’t want to see any icons they can’t use. Administrator do like to have those icons pinned on the taskbar.

The other day i was asked for some help with a brand new computer. The problem with the machine was sysprep, it booted fine into Windows 7 but showed the sysprep window every time. So let’s sysprep it again and let it reboot. But instead of rebooting it showed a little error message: ” A Fatal Error occurred while trying …

  When you want to install the Cisco AnyConnect Client on Mac OS it will try to use java. If for what reason java is not enabled it won’t work and you will receive an error message. In your spotlight search for Java and open Java Preferences   You need to make sure that Enable applet plug-in and Web Start …

I just finished upgrading my vSphere home server from 16GB to the max. 32GB of memory! Officially HP hardware specs say that the server supports the maximum of 16Gb, but i found several posts on the Overclockers forum that i had to try it out myself. Luckely it work like a charm! This upgrade made my weekend, bringing new possibility’s …

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