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Disabling IE ESC on a Windows Server 2008 R3 RDSH server
We had a very hard time trying to disable IE ESC on a RDSH server running 2008 R2. All the usual registry fixes people talk about in forums did not work for us. ESC got disabled for admins but not not for users. Eventually I found this setting in the registry which did the trick: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\Install\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap]“IEHarden”=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{A509B1A7-37EF-4b3f-8CFC-4F3A74704073}]“IsInstalled”=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\{A509B1A8-37EF-4b3f-8CFC-4F3A74704073}]“IsInstalled”=dword:00000000 Note that we are setting the policies on the computer level…NOT on the user level. Other than these three settings, nothing else is needed. Oh Yes! we did have the delete the profiles of users on the RDSH server and also from the roaming profile…
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Cloning a VM on Hyper-V without shutting it down
{note: this post is deprecated, it is now possible to do “live cloning” using VMM 2012 R2, See my newer post below} Create clone of running VM using VMM My OLD post: If you use SC VMM’s own VM cloning functionality, you see two major problems: You have to shut down that VM, and The original VM gets destroyed. Of course this is not acceptable if you are trying to create a dev VM out of a production VM. Here is how you can clone a VM without these problems: Using VMM, create a checkpoint (snapshot) of that VM. Wait for the process to finish. This quieses the VHD, making…