Fix Black Screen in Windows Server 2016 in RDS Farm (UPD)

by Maciek Grischke | Oct 15, 2019 | Tutorials

If you’re experiencing the black screen during logon, look no more. Here’s the one and only fix. One thing that worked for us is to edit a registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy and create...

How to automate user creation in Office 365 and On-prem domain controller

by Maciek Grischke | Oct 15, 2019 | Tutorials

Two ways to fix the problem with deleting files in RDS FARM UPD environment

by Maciek Grischke | Oct 14, 2019 | Tutorials

Many administrators experienced an issue when users are unable to delete files from their “Desktop” or “Documents” folder. When an RDS Farm is being built, virtual User Profile Disks are often used to keep users profiles in one place. Every...

Convert Boolean values True or False to string values Yes or No in Microsoft Flow

by Maciek Grischke | Jan 6, 2019 | Tutorials

For those who created Flows with Boolean values not wanting ugly True or False as the end result, there is an easy way to convert those to Yes or No. All you have to do is to add an IF function in the following format. When used with Variables, you can select Type as...

How to build an Email Parser in Microsoft Flow (Extract text from email body)

by Maciek Grischke | Jul 29, 2018 | Tutorials

Email Parser is a very useful tool if need to manipulate the information contained in the email body. In this example, I will show you how to build an Email Parser Flow and how to extract text from an email received from PayPal. We will start by creating a new Flow...

Windows 10 1803 new OEM (or ESP) Partition

by Maciek Grischke | May 4, 2018 | Tutorials

So Windows 10 1803 update creates another OEM partition. In my case, the new partition decided to take over one of my existing drive letters, G: that was mapped to a shared network location. This was confusing, because my G drive (4TB) suddenly became empty. Disk...