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    Seeing Red in Server Manager 2012?

    Does the Server Manager console in Windows Server 2012 always seem to show your Roles and Servers Groups in Red due to “Manageability” errors that say “Online – Cannot get BPA results” ? This seems to be a pretty common situation simply because the “Best Practice Analyzer” (BPA) scan has not been performed, and it…

    Concurrency
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    Smart Sizing Exposed in Remote Desktop UI, at last!

    One of the coolest “little secret” features that has been in Windows since XP has been the ability for the RDP client to “smart size” or Scale the contents of the Remote Desktop to fit the boundary of the window as you drag the boarders around.  The problem is that there was no exposure in…

    Concurrency
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    RDS8 – Quick and Easy, RemoteApp on Windows Server 2012

    Read more Step-by-Step Guides on Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012. I’ll show you how you can set up RemoteApp publishing using a single server in less time than it takes to watch an episode of your favorite drama! Honestly, you should be able to hammer this out in less than an hour if you…

    Concurrency
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    Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012, Step-by-Step Guides

    Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 is awesome.  With highlights like huge performance improvements and an incredibly simplified deployment process, you’re going to want to see what this can do for your business and you can, for free!  Microsoft has the Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate available which you can download and install today. I’ll show you how you can…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    Publishing Data from a .Net Script Activity in Orchestrator

    When you are using the .Net Script activity in orchestrator you may be pulling in data that you would like to publish so that you can use it in the next activities. To do this first open your .Net Script activity in Orchestrator. In the example below I want to pass on the $department value…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    Creating and Using Schedules in Orchestrator

    Schedules are important in Orchestrator the give you the ability to start you Runbooks at specific dates and times. The first thing you need to do to create your schedule is open up Runbook designer. Open the global settings folder on the left-hand navigation then right click on the schedules folder and select new > schedule. On the General…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    Two Factor Authentication for Remote Desktop Services

    There is a fair amount of information out there about how to accept two factor authentication (2FA) for connecting to Remote Desktop Web Access (RDWA), but this leaves out the truly important connection to the RD Gateway (RDGW).  About a year ago Freek Berson, an MVP in RDS wrote a blog post that addresses this very…

    Concurrency
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    Offline Address Book Fails to Download in Exchange 2010

    I ran into an interesting issue where the Exchange 2010 OAB failed to download to Outlook 2010, 2007, and 2003 clients.  This started after configuring Outlook Web Access redirection using the IIS HTTP redirect capability (sending “/” to “/OWA”).  In testing the issue, I attempted to browse to the OAB xml file manually through my web browser. …

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Powershell is not digitally signed: Set-ExecutionPolicy

    If you have tried to run a PowerShell script that isn’t signed, you’ve likely run into the security error “File … cannot be loaded.  The file is not digitally signed.  The script will not be executed on the system. “  This means that the script is not trusted to be run on your system. If you’d like to sign…

    Nathan Lasnoski