Running GPUpdate on a Remote Desktop Disconnects Your Session

2014-11-25 Uncategorized Harry Caskey 2

I encountered this error when trying to update group policy on a remote machine.  I kept getting disconnected and it’s very frustrating reconnecting after every gpupdate.  I found this tweak that will resolve this issue. When group policy is refreshed the policy settings are deleted and then reset.  During this time the configuration on the remote machine is […]

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Truly Disable IPv6

2014-10-07 IPv6 Harry Caskey 3

IPv6 can cause some problems for applications that are not configured to use IPv6. By default IPv6 is enabled with Windows, disabling it can be tricky because even after you deselect Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6)” in the connection properties of your device it still doesn’t disable all IPv6 components. You can verify this by running ipconfig […]

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Software Installation Error: “The profile for the user is a temporary profile”

2014-10-06 Registry, Windows Installer Harry Caskey 2

When installing an application you get this error message “The profile for the user is a temporary profile”. This happens after installing a security update: MS14-049. This update affects the execution process of the Windows Installer. To bypass this, set the following registry key and it will ignore this prompt and continue with the installation. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer\ […]

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Run as Administrator from PowerShell command line

2014-07-17 PowerShell Harry Caskey 0

From the PowerShell command line run:

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SCCM 2012 R2 Client does not get PKI Client Certificate

2014-06-20 2012, 2012 R2, SCCM Harry Caskey 1

I ran into an issue where after deploying an image with SCCM 2012 R2 the client would not pickup the PKI certificate.  If you are not receiving packages from your server this could be why.  To resolve this you have to modify the “ProvisioningMode” registry key and clear the value in “SystemTaskExcludes” registry key.  To simply […]

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