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Show/hide all icons in notification area
To show or hide all icons in the notification area please do the following: Open Registry Editor (regedit) Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Explorer...
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Remove the Action Center icon from system tray
If you have the need to remove the Action Center icon from Notification area or system tray (old name) then please do the following: Open local policy (gpedit.msc) Navigate to: User Configuration |...
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Adobe Reader Add-On via Group Policy
If you want to prevent opening of PDF documents within the browser you can do this manually on each machine by opening Internet Explorer | Settings | Manage add-ons As you can see Adobe PDF add-on is...
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Disable Welcome Screen in Internet Explorer
If you have the need to disable Internet Explorer welcome Page for All users here’s how you can do it: It can be done on a local machine using registry or Group Policy for wider distribution. Open...
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Online – Data retrieval failures occurred
Server Manager console is a great tool that I have tried to use on Windows 8 and now Windows 8.1 but I had connection issues. Once I have added couple of servers to manage via Server Manager console,...
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Permission to access this folder
Since we migrated our file and print services to Windows Server 2012, we start to get permission issues for admins. We are using Robocopy tool to copy files and folders from another server but after...
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Enable Windows backup on local drives
If you have tried to create a backup using Windows Backup utility on Windows Server 2012 R2 you have probably noticed that you are unable to use local or critical drives on that server. It is not...
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Server 2012 R2 KMS – Status_Success error
Upon fresh setup of Office 2013 KMS server we have run into a following error message: “The following error has occurred. Please resolve the error and try again.” Description: STATUS_SUCCESS To...
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Set DNS servers via GPO Server 2012 R2
We are currently in the migration process of Windows Server 2003 Single Label DNS domain to Windows Server 2012 R2 domain. We are also migrating our Windows XP clients to Windows 7. After successful...
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How to setup IE11 Compatibility View
If you have tried to configure a Group policy for IE11 compatibility view, you might have noticed that GPO settings are not applying. GPO settings for compatibility view can be found in:...
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Disable removable drives using GPO
Here’s how you can easily disable use of external or removable drives using Group Policy in your Active Directory environment. First we need to create a new policy and link it to the Organizational...
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Force AD sync with Windows Server 2012 R2 domain
The following instructions will show you how to force an Active Directory AD sync or synchronization between the two domain controllers within Server 2012 R2 domain environment. One of the ways is to...
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You don’t currently have permission to access this folder
You might receive the following warning message on Windows Server 2008 or 2012 or Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 and 10: “You don’t currently have permission to access this folder” This warning message is...
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How to clear WSUS disk space
With thousands of updates released from Microsoft your WSUS disk space can get low pretty fast. To free up some WSUS disk space we can delete superseded updates that are not applicable and thus not...
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KB3159398 – MS16-072 Group Policy update issues
With the latest security update KB3159398 from Microsoft installed on our machines we have noticed that some of our group policies failed to apply. After this update Authenticated users group needs to...
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Set DNS servers via GPO Server 2012 R2
We are currently in the migration process of Windows Server 2003 Single Label DNS domain to Windows Server 2012 R2 domain. We are also migrating our Windows XP clients to Windows 7. After successful...
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Configure IE 11 Compatibility View GPO
If you have tried to configure a Group policy for IE 11 compatibility view, you might have noticed that GPO settings are not applying. GPO settings for compatibility view can be found in:...
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Disable removable drives using GPO
Here’s how you can easily disable use of external or removable drives using Group Policy in your Active Directory environment. First we need to create a new policy and link it to the Organizational...
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Force AD sync with Windows Server 2012 R2 domain
The following instructions will show you how to force an Active Directory AD sync or synchronization between the two domain controllers within Server 2012 R2 domain environment. One of the ways is to...
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You don’t currently have permission to access this folder
You might receive the following warning message on Windows Server 2008 or 2012 or Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 and 10: “You don’t currently have permission to access this folder” This warning message is...
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