It’s been a while since I had something on my mind that I could and will share 🙂 This time it’s around IaaS ..infrastructure as a service. The last 6 months I have been involved in several types of projects that in some way all touches IaaS in some format and now after 6 months […]
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Making Windows Start Menu Most Recently Used Programs List persistant on non-persistant desktop with RES
Today I had a customer requesting that their users maintain their most recently used programs list in the Windows Start Menu. Research showed we need to save the following folders: %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\Start Menu …and the following registry settings: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage2 Here is a quick screenshot of how these settings can be saved […]
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 […]