Okay, I seriously thought I already have this post uploaded in this blog, but it turned out I was wrong. I have kept this for a long time, and it helped me a numbers of times already so I reckon it will help others as well. IE Connections. There are a few settings we can configured in IE Connections Settings such as : Automatically detect settings  Use automatic configuration script  Use a proxy server  Bypass proxy server for local addresses  Use different proxy servers for different protocols  Proxy server exception.  For this post, I will list registry keys positions for each setting. Objective : Grey-Out / Not-Grey-Out Automatic Configuration Location : Hive : HKCU Key : Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel\ Value Name : AutoConfig Value Type : DWORD Value Data : 0 Result : Not-Greyed-Out, settings for Automatically detect settings & Use automatic configuration script can be changed. Value Data : 1 Re...

I implemented this a few years back, when I needed to eliminate any unneeded pop-up to my users. In this case, it was for Adobe Reader. Newly created profiles will have this automatically pop-up when they launched Adobe Reader  for the first time. Adobe Product Improvement Program - Help Improve the Adobe Reader Experience. The screen also can be triggered by going to Help | Improvement Program Options... These steps will help to disable the Improvement Program Options menu, and consequently suppress the pop-up. Note that it requires registry editing, so be extremely careful. Note that the steps mentioned are for Adobe Reader 11. If oy used different version, ensure your key path refers to correct version (SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\11.0) Using GPP :   Launch GPMC , and go to target GPO.   Edit the policy, and navigate to Computer Configuration | Preference | Windows Settings | Registry , right click at Registry , hove...

I love to move my Windows profile folders from common, Microsoft-preset folders to my desired folders. And occasionally, out of stupidity, I mistakenly deleted the active folders, rather than the previous folders, which resulting to below error : <Path> refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location. As always, it is not hard to resolve this issue. However, it involves registry changes, therefore do it cautiously.  Open regedit  navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer  There are 2 parts here :  Shell Folders User Shell Folders Shell Folders is designed to be used by Windows NT and earlier. It is necessary not to delete this fold...

It is a common practice to have a management server, with most (if not all) consoles installed on it. the purpose of this practice are to consolidate the management consoles into centralized servers, and reduce un-needed resources utilization on target servers (e.g : SQL, AppSense, Citrix Delivery Controller, VMware vCenter).  One component that I love to have in my management server is Citrix GPMC. I prefer to configure my Citrix policies via GPO, rather than Citrix Policies. One main reason is to consolidate all policies into a single, centralized location.  This is what you can see from AD server or normal servers/machines without Citrix GPMC installed / enabled. This is what you can see from Citrix servers with GPMC installed / enabled. Now, how to install Citrix GPMC :   Download the installers from here : x86 : http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX142463#download x64 : http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX142464#download  Right cl...

In previous post , I demonstrated steps to install a Certificate Authority server as well as enabling Web enrollment. All good so far. However, when we tried to proceed with web enrollment, below message box appeared : In order to complete certificate enrollment, the Web site for the CA must be configured to use HTTPS authentication. To make it worst (not really), if we tried to access to the web page by using HTTPS, no page can be displayed.  Luckily, Microsoft has compiled all needed steps on how to get it resolved, as posted here . Implementing SSL on a Web site in the domain with an Enterprise CA The following example will assume that you have an Enterprise CA from which to issue certificates. Further, the assumption is that you have a Certification Authority Web Enrollment pages installed, either on that CA or on another computer in the domain. This example will walk through the steps necessary to do the following: Configure an appropriate certificate template for...