There really isn't any recommendation for disabling or enabling Hyper-Threading for HyperV hosts. The general consensus seems to be, it doesn't hurt performance, so it's better to leave it on. We...
Read MoreMS Product activation and UTM transparent proxy
I've seen some weird activation issues in MS products with error codes that threw me off.
As i tried to activate Windows Server it said;
- A problem occurred when Windows tried to activate....
2012R2 Connection broker, error 24584 adding collections.
I was setting up a PoC with 2012R2 RDSH environment, adding the RDSH hosts to the connection broker. This went without errors, but when trying to add the servers to a collection I got this...
Read MoreInternet explorer group policy: IE maintenance mode or preference
In Windows 2008 Server and later MS gave us a new and easy way to distribute group policy, named GPO preferences. After running into some weird issues with IE group policy settings through IE...
Read MoreUpdate Problems Internet Explorer 11: Unknown error
I was encountering an issue whilst updating some 2008R2 servers using WSUS. A number of servers on several different locations had problems with updating. They failed with the following error:
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Remote Desktop 2012 services without the whole infrastructure
In most larger environments you usually want a complete installation with a connection broker, web interface and gateway service. But what about a small environment? Or you just need a stand-alone...
Read MoreCurseword in SMSpasscode, probably memopasscode
Let me first state that this is not a blog item meant to harm SMSpasscode, but a warning to the memopasscode feature of SMSpasscode. Which led us to a embarrassing situation at a customer. We like...
Read MoreSophos UTM mail protection
I've been looking a bit more into the mail security options in UTM, when I discovered something odd. There was no configuration option anywhere to configure the binding of the SMTP proxy to a...
Read MoreAzure RemoteApp follow up
This is a followup of this post, where i'm trying to use RemoteApp from Azure.
I got a message from MS support that there was a huge interest and that they had trouble handling all the...
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