Category: Microsoft

Reset Windows Server RDS licence grace period

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If your running a EUC lab environment it would be handy at times if you could reset the windows server RDS licensing period. Luckily this is possible.
It can be quite frustrating when you are testing out some things in a lab and the RDS grace period expires meaning you have to rebuild the session hosts (not too much of a problem with MDT but still a hinderance none the less).
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Update existing users Windows 8.1/ 2012 start tiles

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Microsoft do not provide any method for updating existing users Windows 8.1 or 2012 start tiles, however it can be scripted to a degree. Start tiles live in two files within a profile namely: appsFolder.itemdata-ms appsFolderLayout.bin These two files live within c:\users\%Username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows portion of a profile which is hoovered up and stored within profile management pRead More…