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Things, a lot of them software, that I found interesting. Everything I link to is free/open source unless specified otherwise.
Friday, January 19, 2024
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Give an AzureAD (Entra) user rights to a local file share
How to create a network share in an AAD only environment
https://miketerrill.net/2019/07/04/how-to-create-a-network-share-in-an-aad-only-environment/
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Download Youtube Videos with Stacher
This GUI front-end for Youtube-DL makes for a powerful Youtube video downloader.
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
itefix has a number of windows ports of linux projects
itefix has a number of windows ports of linux projects.
Some are free, some are paid, but at reasonable prices. For example, an openSSH server for Windows, and a Nagios Core install for Windows.
Monday, June 19, 2023
How to reset the RDP server 120-day grace period
I was surprised to find this on the Dell support site.
Instructions
The Remote Desktop Services (RDS) role in Windows server requires appropriate client access licenses (CALs) to be installed in order to function properly, but there is a 120-day licensing grace period which begins when the role is installed. During this grace period, RDS will function without any CALs having been installed. This is to allow an organization to configure and test its RDS environment to ensure that everything works as expected before purchasing and installing CALs.
It is possible to reset this grace period, but please note: resetting the licensing grace period is not a substitute for purchasing and installing the required Remote Desktop CALs. The following steps should not be performed on a server that is in production.
To reset the RDS licensing grace period, perform the following steps:
It is possible to reset this grace period, but please note: resetting the licensing grace period is not a substitute for purchasing and installing the required Remote Desktop CALs. The following steps should not be performed on a server that is in production.
To reset the RDS licensing grace period, perform the following steps:
- On the RD session host, launch Registry Editor (regedit) as an administrator.
- In regedit, browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\RCM\GracePeriod.
- Within this registry key is a REG_BINARY entry whose name begins with the string L$RTMTIMEBOMB. (This is likely the only entry in this key.) The default permissions on this entry do not allow it to be modified or deleted; therefore, these permissions must be changed
- Right-click the GracePeriod folder in the left pane of regedit and select Permissions.
- In the permissions window that appears, select Administrators and assign this group Full Control permissions. Click OK to close the window.
- Right-click the L$RTMTIMEBOMB... registry entry and select Delete. Click Yes to confirm the deletion.
- Exit regedit.
- Reboot the RD session host server in order for the registry change to take effect.
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