Adding URL Shortcuts to the Start Menu via GPO
One of the assets that our district lacks is software that is installed on the Windows 10 workstations. This is due to the fact that they district has moved over to be a Google District and most of the software that is used are apps that are within the G-suite. With this in mind, we […]
PDQ Deploy–GPO Setting up the Default User Image
Windows 10 will give you the ability to setup a picture for your account on the computer. We have this same capability with our G-Suite, so we decided to turn off this feature and just set the “Sinchak” Tigre as the default user image for everyone. Once this is set, then the user cannot change […]
Adding Domain Users to Remote Desktop
By default, only the administration group has access to remote desktop into a computer. We needed to add the ability for teachers and administrators to be able to remote back to their desktop machine if needed, so we just added the domain users as a restricted group for remote desktop. Email this page
Setting the default lock screen via GPO
One of the new features of Windows 10 is the picture that is displayed when the computer is awaiting for someone to logon. This is called the “lock” screen. Through group police we can set the defaults for this image, and then lock it down so that they cannot be changed and messed with by […]
PDQ Deploy–Office 2010
One of the things that kept us to imaging hard drives in the past was the installation of Office on all of the machines. It was just faster to setup a machine and copy the hard drives to other computers. Now we have the ability to deploy software, and Office 2010 which takes about 9 […]
Deploying Printers Via GPO
With the new network, we decided to deploy printers remotely via the Active Directory. This will allow us more control and management over the network printers. Email this page
Setting Adobe Acrobat DC as default app for .pdf
The default setting on Windows 8 and higher is to use Microsoft Edge as the default .pdf reader even if the Adobe Reader software is installed on the computer. We fixed this issue by following some documentation that was found on the Adobe website. Email this page