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The goal: Deploy printers easily for RDSH or terminal servers. Make it self-service. The problem: There are solutions for automatic printer “tracking” however these are based on location. We could pre-populate the “location” field via the GPO “Pre-populate printer search location text”. However since our terminal servers are in one location. This won’t really work. …
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Here are some best practices to keep your Print Servers stable! 1. Minimize the driver count, stick to universal if you can (less features) 2. Set all your print ports to “winprint” with powershell get-printer | set-printer -PrintProcessor “Winprint” 3. Set all your print rendering to happen on the server and NOT client with powershell …
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My goal: Setup a pfsense in azure so I can route all my traffic through that. I didn’t want two subnets for this since I already had my VMs deployed. I also wanted to get over the “only 1 ikev1 tunnel” in Azure. I was setting up site to site VPNs with Meraki MX64s which …
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The goal, get the task manager to always stay on top in a small form factor way. Without installing any third-party tools. How it’s done: Open up task manager, click the options tab, click always on top Then head to performance, and double clock one of the counters And now you’re all set
The script: import-module RemoteDesktop Get-RDUserSession -ConnectionBroker connectionbroker.domain.local | select username, hostserver, unifiedsessionid | Out-GridView -title “Select users to message” -passthru | Send-RDUserMessage -MessageTitle “Message from Tech Support” -MessageBody “Server will be rebooting shortly please save your work.” The result: After selecting “ok” this appears on the RDSH server. Why does it work? Well send-rdusermessage really …
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The Sophos UTM Azure Policy: The sophos UTM Azure Remote Gateway: notes: the pre-shared key should match on both sides, the gateway object should be the public IP assigned to your gateway. When creating your Azure Virtual network gateway, you must choose policy-based VPN, NOT route-based. Policy based is IKEv1, while route based is …
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