Recently during a DR Test we wanted to change the Address on the RDP file that was being downloaded from the Remote Desktop Gateway.

Someone had put together a nicescript that can do it here : 

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Change-published-FQDN-for-2a029b80

This changed the internal server 

However the file still has the old address for RD Gateway server ( in this line : gatewayhostname:s: )

You can change this using powershell per below

Import-Module RemoteDesktop

Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration -CollectionName “Finance Staff RDP” -CustomRdpProperty “gatewayhostname:s:office.domain.com:444“

Changes this your External Server

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Things I did

• Workout at least twice during each day ( 10K run at Lunch and 1-2 hours Cycling Swiming in the evening )
• Start Eating Breakfast! Muslei and lots of nuts
• Turned Vegetarian to help nutrition 
• Practiced Sea Swimming
• Gave up caffine/went Decaf for Coffee
• Performed 10 180KM Bike Rides and 4K Swims , try to do something long once a week
• Start Tapering 2 weeks before

Things I didn’t do 

• Get a Triathlon Coach
• Get a swimming Coach
• Do Brick Workouts
• Join Stava
• Monitor Heart Rate
• Use Tri Bars as much as I thought

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Setting up some new Ubiquiti Wifi Access points, on reboot the Wifi SSID would show for a bit then disappear. A look at the Radio’s on the devices came up as Auto (Disabled)

By Default, the Ubiqiti controller Site Setting has  “Enable Connectivity Monitor and Wireless Uplink” enabled by default. This means if the Access points can’t connect ( ping )  the gateways defined in Network they will no enable the SSID broadcast ( and disable Wireless )

You can disable this setting, but you probably want to update the Gateway in the Network details to the correct one , and make sure DHCP is running or set static and make sure it can communicate to the gateway 

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Application: MfO = Mimecast for Outlook

Application: App Launcher = MyApps Webbased portal

Method = IWA ( Intergrated Windows Authentication ) usually from the Mimecast Outlook Add In

Method =  EWS Basic ( Used by Domain Authentication to check onprem ) 

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Either go to a working Windows 10 Machine or download files from here

Take Ownership of C:\programdata\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository ( and Subfolders ) 

Then Open C:\programdata\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository ( Click Continue to add security ) 

Then Open C:\programdata\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\Packages ( Click Continue to add security ) 

Copy the correct ActivationStore.dat from the downloaded Zip or a working PC to the folders in here ( Make sure you copy to each folder ) 

C:\programdata\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.ShellExperienceHost*
C:\programdata\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost*
C:\programdata\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\Packages\Microsoft.Windows.Cortana*
C:\programdata\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\Packages\Microsoft.AAD.BrokerPlugin*

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Agent communication and updates
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*.webrootcloudav.com

Agent messaging
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*.webroot.com

Management portal and support ticket logs upload
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*.webrootanywhere.com

Agent file downloading and uploading
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wrskynet.s3.amazonaws.com/*
wrskynet-eu.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/*
wrskynet-oregon.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/*

Web Filtering (elasticbeanstalk is an Amazon AWS domain)
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WSAWebFilteringPortal.elasticbeanstalk.com

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Possibly caused by updates this week.

You need to delete the Recycle bin that is within the user profile section.

You can either shadow the user and browse to C:\users\%username% and delete the $recycle.bin folder or get the user to log off, then mount the VHDK file and delete it that way.

Users are able to then delete form the desktop.

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Recently looking at some charity licensing where I found 2 sets of Windows Server User Cals

https://www.connectingup.org/donations/content/microsoft-windows-server-user-cal-includes-software-assurance ( SKU: LS-40627 ) 

https://www.connectingup.org/discount/microsoft-discount-volume-licence-program/microsoft-windows-server-user-cal-licence-only-0?action ( SKU: R18-05766 ) 

The first one was nearly half the cost of the other , turns out SKU: LS-40627 you have a limit of 50, so you will need to purchase these before purchasing anymore of R18-05766  ( Can be purchased in parallel ) 

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If the SQL databases are in simple recovery

Backup

ALTER DATABASE dbname

SET READ_ONLY;

GO
 

Backup database dbname

to disk = 'C:\...\dbname.bak'

 
Restore


Restore database dbname

from disk =  'C:\...\dbname.bak'

with recovery, replace

 

ALTER DATABASE dbname

SET MULTI_USER;

GO

If the databases are in full recovery model

Backup

Backup database dbname

to disk = 'C:\...\dbname.bak'

Backup log dbname

to disk = 'C:\...\dbname.trn'

with norecovery

 
Restore

 
Restore database dbname

from disk = 'C:\...\dbname.bak'

with norecovery, replace

Restore log test2

from disk = 'C:\...\dbname.trn'

with recovery
 

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