We are in the process of upgrading our VDI from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 2016 and I cannot seem to get the pinned "Windows Server" group from showing when new users log in to the new VDI test servers. Is there a way to get rid of this group? I've looked thru GPO but only thing I have been able to find is to remove ALL pinned applications which is not something we want.
The image below will show what group I am talking about.
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To customise the start menu take a look at the PowerShell functions Export-StartLayout and Import-StartLayout. Basically you need to setup a temp machine, customise the start menu as required then export it to a xml file. You can then import this config and apply those changes to other machines/images.
This guide covers the process in more detail:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/deploymentguys/2016/03/07/windows-10-start-layout-customization/
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We are using ReportViewer 2015 in our ASP.NET Web application and using it with IE 11. When users (without admin permissions), try to print reports, they get the following error:
If i click, cancel on this error: then the following pop ups appear:
and then regardless we click yes or no, we get the following message:
Previously we were using Report Viewer 9 and this was all working fine but that version of Report Viewer does not render well in IE 11.
Also we are deploying RSClientPrint-x86.inf to all user's machine.
We have also temporary assigned users admin permissions to their machine and when the set up happens on their machine, we have copied the RSClientPrint assemblies and then distributed them but it does not work.
Also even once the assemblies are deployed, as soon as the admin permissions are taken away from the user, their printing stops working again.
Can anyone help?
First, to eliminate the obvious, have the user permissions been set correctly? Quick search yields a link
Second, reporting services use Windows authentication by default. Looks like you want to use forms authentication like so.
EDIT : So it looks like it is an Activex installation rights issue. For Activex installation without admin rights, on an admin command prompt type ocsetup.exe AxInstallService and enable it once done. You will have to configure it using GPMC. More details on that are here.
I am system admin and wondering if there is a way to start windows store app automatically during system restart? Using Window Server 2012 R2 64 bit. Thanks.
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Lin
You can achieve that by creating a uri launch protocol and launch the app by this protocol.. this is the only way I see in this situation.
See more here:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/launch-resume/handle-uri-activation
UPDATE:
Now for launching that automatically, use start command, this command allow us to start modern apps (Windows Store Apps).. for example, this will launch the store # home page:
start ms-windows-store://home
In real scenario:
create .cmd file and write your command name (Your app protocol) and move this file to C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
I tried the same a few weeks ago but for now is not supported. please read this answer UWP app start automatically at startup
I'm trying to deploy an SSRS report to a remote server (that is not on my network). I'm not sure how to do this. For a machine on my network, I would just change the TargetURL, but I'm guessing there should be somewhere that I can associate credentials to deploy to a remote server, but I'm not finding it.
I know this is an old post but if someone is wondering about the same question.
I am using vs2017 enterprise. So when you configure your remote url and folder name and everything is perfect to build your project, you hit F5 or deploy your project. Upon successful building vs will prompt you for your report servers credential. Then you do the usual and vs will do its own job. In a moment you will be able to access your report.
Just read about the permission requirements before you try it.
Hope it will help someone.
Thanks
I face a similar issue delivering reports to various servers (customers and dev,qa,staging and production.) In visual studio the best way to do it is start a new project for the new server and import the new reports into it. You end up with a new project for each server.
I found TFS / VS unwieldy and my workflow to manage it unfortunately is doing it manually, or using one of a few open source report uploading tools (there are powershell scripts to do it but I find the tools are more user friendly.)
Best thing to start with is doing it manually; which will sort your initial problem.
Save the file out of your report writer to disk.
In Internet Explorer log into the Report Manager of the remote server http(s)://remoteservername/reports and navigate to the folder you want. Then upload the report.
When its uploaded you may need to fix the connection to the database.
Once you get used to doing this you can use a tool like reportsync to easily and quickly move reports between servers.
i may be going about this the wrong way and would appreciate guidance on how it should be done. :)
I have a windows 7 computer on which i have installed thinVNC (Remote desktop application)
i liked it because its cross platform and does not need the clients to install anything on their devices to connect to the computer.They simply use a HTML 5 enabled browser to connect.
The purpose of this is so that they can get to a Microsoft access database on the computer, log in to it and perform some transactions.
Now, when one person logs in they see the desktop and interact with it and thats fine. However, when another person connects to the computer, they basically watch as the first user goes about using the database. Which i think is the purpose of this kind of software!
So i guess what i want is that each user gets their own fresh "session" if you like, like having the file on a network drive. So users connect to the computer,don't see others using the system and there's a folder where i have granted access to external users and placed the database in it. They will then doubleclick the file icon and be able to login etc.
So what is the best way to achieve this? ideally i don't want the user to have to install any software to be able to connect, but if its unavoidable then so be it.
thanks
Why not use Microsoft's built in remote desktop? There's a version for most (if not all) devices now and it would let you just setup multiple accounts on the Win 7 pc and get each user to log into them individually.
I'm trying to use team foundation server power tools to add project reports to an existing team foundation server 2010 install. Here's the command I'm running with the output...
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC>
tfpt addprojectreports /c ollection:https://SERVERNAME:8080/tfs/Projects /teamproject:SANDBOX / processtemplate:"MSF for CMMI Process Improvement v5.0" /validate
The project collection does not have reporting configured. Therefore,
reports cannot be added to projects in the collection.
The error message seems to indicate that reporting services has not been set up for the whole project collection. If I log into the TFS server and run the TFS admin console, hit Reporting under the application tier, each area (warehouse, analysis services and report server) indicate that everything is configured and enabled.
Also, if I point a browser to the report server configured within the admin console I get a directory listing with two data sources listed (Tfs2010OlapReportDS, Tfs2010ReportDS) and a directory called TfsReports. In the TfsReports dir there is a Projects directory and further a directory within the projects directory which contains what I'm assuming are the default reports for a project. If I drill all the way down to an actual report Build -> Build Summary, it runs just fine.
So, it seems like reports are configured for one of the team projects, but I'm not sure how this was accomplished since I'm not able to do this for other projects. If I run the previous command and use the name of the project that already has reports for it, I get the same error message.
I don't think I have the collection URL incorrect because if I totally fudge this I get a TF31002 error indicating unable to connect to TFS.
Any thoughts? Thanks a lot.
In the TFS Administration console, go to the project collection and in the Reports Folder tab ensure that you have set the Default Folder Location.
If the tab isn't showing (because you haven't closed the admin console since you configured reporting), click the refresh button at the top of the window and it should appear.