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How to add UPN Suffix

August 19th, 2011 1 comment

Sometimes when you install Exchange, you want to allow users to use their e-mail addresses as a login name. Most of the time UPN suffixes are not usefull. For example you have internal name for domain “company.corp”, but your e-mail addresses are “username@company.com“. You want to give an option for users to log into OWA using “username@company.com” instead of “company.corp\username”.

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Windows 2008/7: How to disable firewall correctly

August 19th, 2011 No comments

Most of the time I found at customers’ sites that they disable firewalls completely, because they don’t have time or they are just lazy to define exceptions in firewall settings. But this is not really good idea according to security.

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Remove “Screen Resolution” on right-click

August 19th, 2011 No comments

These days I’m working on one RDS (Terminal Services before) farm and I’m playing with setting users’ environment as secure as possible, but also as usefull as possible. When I disabled access to Control Panel for all users with settings in GPO I found one issue. When I right-clicked on Desktop under normal user I could see following options:

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Windows Missing Administrative Shares

August 12th, 2011 2 comments

Today I went to one of our customers and they were complaining about not being able to access admin shares on their clients’ computers. Admin shares are those following:

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Insert system variables into registry via GPO

August 1st, 2011 No comments

I’m implementing RDS (TS) farm at one of our customers. From my previous experiences I love to have %USERNAME% and %COMPUTER% name variables in name od Computer on RDS User’s Desktop.

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