Something I bump into every now and again that I really should’ve written down before. Let’s say you sometimes work with multiple monitors, you then switch to a single monitor and launch an application, but it loads up on a monitor that’s no longer there – it’s hidden away, tucked off screen with no way to drag it onto your… Read more
Tag: Windows
RDS on Server 2016, Failed: Unable to install the role services.
In putting together a small RDS (Session Based) environment on Server 2016 today today I kept running across the error message below during the installation. Failed: Unable to install the role services. After much back and forth between forums and event viewer it turns out our default policy to disable TLS 1.0 on servers was the issue. Enabling TLS 1.0… Read more
Synology DiskStation as a Backup Target for Windows PCs and Macs
As some readers may know I currently work in Higher Education and while all of the business data is trivial to backup providing any level of backup service to students and academics is significantly harder. The challenges faced include the myriad of Operating Systems in use (Windows/OSX/Linux), the fact that the devices being backed up are inherently ‘untrusted’ (i.e. owned by the… Read more