Reghacks for W8 annoyances

To get rid of the first-time-logon animation.

-----------DisableFirstLogonAnimation.reg----------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon]
"EnableFirstLogonAnimation"=dword:0

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To get rid of “Do you really want to run this file” warnings….

--------------------DisableOpenFileWarnings.reg--------------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations]
“LowRiskFileTypes”=”.exe;.bat;.reg;.vbs;”

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References:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4c1d26e0-5d2e-487e-ab5a-7ded6d03b30c/how-to-completely-disable-the-first-logon-animation?forum=w8itprogeneral

http://www.howtogeek.com/167579/how-to-make-your-own-windows-registry-hacks/

http://www.windowsreference.com/windows-7/how-to-disable-open-file-security-warning-in-windows-7/

Exchange RCAMaxConcurreny

Good to know.

In Exchange 2013 the default value for RCAMaxConcurrency 40 in the default Global policy. For a user to open 29 shared calendar at least a value of 100 is recommended. Therefore for 40 shared calendars, a value of 200 should be considered.

To be applied for all users needing to many calendars at the same time.

References:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2299468/sv

Content refiner in Sharepoint 2010 Search

Good post about adding content refiner to the Sharepoint 2010 Search Coreresults webpart.

Now we only need to replicate this for 2013…

References:

https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/devwiki/articles/pages/sharepoint-add-a-filter-in-the-refinement-panel-of-the-search-page.aspx

Increase RCP connections to exchange 2013

Symtom:

Some users get error in Outlook:

Your server administrator has limited the number of items you can open simultaneously. Try closing messages you have opened or removing attachments and images from unsent messages you are composing.

usually happens when working with many calendars.

Cause:

Every calendar is one rpcconnections. The default limitation in Exchange 2013 is 40 connections per user. When having 30+ shared calenders and 2 mailboxes this limitation might occur more often than not.

Solution:

Create a new throttlingpolicy and increase allowed rpcconnections.

/> new-throttlingpolicy “mypolicy” –rcamaxconcurrency:200

/> set-mailbox john.doe –throttlingpolicy “mypolicy”

Verify policy set by:

/> get-mailbox john.doe |select throttlingpolicy

Script to apply this to many boxes:

---------------setthrottle-----------------------------

foreach ($user in get-content testusers.txt)

{

set-mailbox $user -throttlingpolicy "mypolicy"

write-host "$user is processed."

}

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References:

http://www.msexchange.org/kbase/ExchangeServerTips/ExchangeServer2010/Monitoring/RPCClientAccessThrottlingLogging.html

http://www.kraftkennedy.com/blog/bid/102095/Exchange-2010-Notes-from-the-Field-Client-Throttling-and-Max-Concurrency

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232205%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx

http://exchangemaster.wordpress.com/tag/perfmon-counters/

Set calender permissions for all users

To check permissions for calender on a user:

/> get-mailboxfolderpermission john.doe:\calender

To Set permissions for user default to reviewer on john.does calender

/>set-mailboxfolderpermission john.doe:\calendar –user Default –Accessrights Reviewer

To script this for all users

--------------SetCalendarReviewer.ps1-------------

foreach ($user in get-content users.txt)

{

set-mailboxfolderpermission ${user}:\calendar -user Default -Accessrights Reviewer

write-host "$user is processed."

}

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It retrievs all users from test.txt which is simply one username per line.

Also below is a link to policy to always set this permission with newly created users, which I haven’t tried out yet.

References:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15612088/how-to-combine-variable-with-the-rest-of-the-command

http://exchangeinside.org/2013/01/set-default-calendar-permissions-for-all-new-users-to-reviewer/

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351181%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx – remove-mailboxfolderpermission

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff522363%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx – set-mailboxfolderpermissions

Exchange 2013 throttling

When setting up a special user that is used to copy a lot of items we today learned about the default throttling restrictions in Exchange 2013.

Here’s so useful powershell commands for the occasion.

/>get-throttlingpolicyassociation john.doe |fl      - shows what policy is associated with account. If it’s empty it’s the global default.

To Check the current throttlingpolicies:

/>get-throttlingpolicy |fl

To create a new one and set it to unlimited

/>New-ThrottlingPolicy MyNewPolicy

/>Set-ThrottlingPolicy MyNewPolicy -RCAMaxConcurrency Unlimited -EWSMaxConcurrency Unlimited -EWSMaxSubscriptions Unlimited -CPAMaxConcurrency Unlimited -EwsCutoffBalance Unlimited -EwsMaxBurst Unlimited -EwsRechargeRate Unlimited

/>Set-Mailbox "john.doe" -ThrottlingPolicy MyNewPolicy

Goes without saying that this should be used with extreme caution.

References:

https://migrationwiz.zendesk.com/entries/22713616-How-do-I-disable-the-Exchange-2013-throttling-policy-

http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2010/compliance-policies-archiving/exchange-2010-client-throttling-policies.html

Autodiscover pains in my side.

Problem: When setting up Outlook 2007 on a Server 2003 R2 a certificate error is shown every time Outlook starts. Exchange server is 2013 and Autodiscovery is pretty much mandatory.

Cannot connect to proxy server. Error code 10.

Symptom:s

Certificate error is shown at startup.

In the Outlook Anywhere settings, the proxyserver settings is set to the internal servername, like myserver.mydomain.local instead of the external mail.mydomain.com. The certificate is set to the external name so its no wonder Outlook complains.

When we alter the name in Outlook Anywhere settings the Proxyerror disappears. Though after restarting outlook once or twice, the settings returns.

Now the issue here is that these settings are only incorrect if the server (or computer) is a member of the domain. If a external Outlook puts up a user, everything looks fine in the Outlook Anywhere settings.

Cause:

Then looking for autodiscover settings, Outlook always looks to the domains SCP before the dns.

Now this can be amended by changing the parameters of cmdlet set-outlookprovider

Like : set-outlookprovider expr –server mail.mydomain.com –certprincipalname msstd:mail.mydomain.com and then restarting both mailserver and clientcomputer.

People usually solve the problem when doing that, but not in my case. I blame a very old server that probably upgraded Office one time to many.

Solution:

In my case I had to completely bypass the Active Directory to fool the Terminal Server to look towards the DNS, where everything worked dandy.

These are the magic settings.

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0 14.0 for Outlook 2010\Outlook\AutoDiscover and create these DWORD

"PreferLocalXML"=dword:0
"ExcludeHttpRedirect"=dword:0
"ExcludeHttpsAutodiscoverDomain"=dword:0
"ExcludeHttpsRootDomain"=dword:1
"ExcludeScpLookup"=dword:1 (forces Outlook to exclude SCP object check)
"ExcludeSrvLookup"=dword:1
"ExcludeSrvRecord"=dword:1

All cred for the fix goes to hosting.intermedia.net link below. Still pasting it here just in case they drop it.

On a side note, I also installed a brand new Server 2008 R2 with Outlook 2010 and didn’t see the issue there at all. So either something broke or Outlook 2007/Server 2003 bugged out.

References:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/umutg/archive/2011/01/31/all-about-set-outlookprovider.aspx

http://ilantz.com/2009/06/18/prevent-outlook-anywhere-aka-rpc-over-http-from-being-automaticly-configured-in-exchange-2007-with-autodiscover/

https://hosting.intermedia.net/support/kb/default.asp?id=2445