Today a customer called and the issue being end users on their remote desktop servers are unable to install printer drivers from their print server, hence they call support! Simply allow this using 2 GPO’s: Set this to disabled: Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Option\Devices: Prevent users from installing printer drivers. and set both drop-Down […]
Recover Exchange 2010 database when corrupted
Today I had a customer where his Exchange server was unfortunately not properly shutdown and after powering on the mailbox database was unable to mount. First I checked the state of the database using: eseutil /mh “d:\path\to\store.edb” Unfortunately the state was “Dirty Shutdown”. Next step was to check the state of the log files using: eseutil […]
Tip: Make user local administrator only on current desktop
Frequently customers in VDI environments request that users are local administrators on their non-persistant desktop. Some simply just add domain users to the local administrator Group, but this is a really bad idea because this will give users admin rights across desktops, giving them access to destroying other desktops. Instead we can simply add the built-in […]