Res one workspace manager windows 8.1#
In my example it is InitialsĢ.) Give the new variable the following value $adinfo(Initials) There’re some more values possible, like firstname, lastname, etc….ģ.) Login to your session, in my example a Windows 8.1 VDI desktop and open the command promptĤ.) Type the command set and search for the new variable Initials. First I’ve created a new environment variable with a query to read the information from Active Directory.ġ.) Open the RES Workspace Manager Console and create a new environment variable. In this environment I’m using RES Workspace Manager 2014, so there’re also possibilities to set some user variables in your session. But, what if you want to fill this field also with some Active Directory information, like the property Initials.
The initials is the first letter of the username. The username is the displayname within Active Directory. Default there are two things the user has to fill in. When you’ve installed Microsoft Office in your environment, the first time the user starts one of the Office products, they receive a pop-up box for the initials. In this blogpost you’ll find a solution for this problem.ġ.) Add Sticky Notes to RES Workspace Manager 2014Ģ.) Open the Properties of the new application and navigate to the second tab “ Settings”ģ.) Scroll down to “ Disable file system redirector on 64-bit systems” and Enable this settingĤ.) Refresh the User Workspace and start the application againĪuthor Mark Posted on OctoCategories Ictivity, Microsoft Windows 8.1, RES Workspace Manager, VDI, VMware Tags #RESWM2014, Horizon View, Ictivity, RES WM 2014, RES Workspace Manager, Sticky Notes, VDI, Windows 8.1 How to: Set Microsoft Office initials with Active Directory information using RES Workspace Manager 2014 One of the applications “Sticky Notes” couldn’t be started from the start menu or Windows tiles. Everything looks realy nice and is working realy well!! But I’ve seen one strange thing.
Res one workspace manager windows 8#
Last week I’ve been working on a big VDI environment with RES Workspace Manager 2014, Windows 8 and VMWare Horizon View. %LoacalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\ĥ.) Assign the settings to the right user(s) and WorkspaceĦ.) Login, change your Windows tiles and logout….ħ.) Browse to your PersonalSettings folder and see if there is any UPF fileĪuthor Mark Posted on OctoCategories Microsoft Windows 8, Microsoft Windows 8.1, RES Automation Manager, RES Workspace Manager, VDI Tags #RESWM, Live Tiles, VDI, Windows 8.1, Windows Tiles Can’t start Sticky Notes in Windows 8.1 with RES Workspace Manager 2014 %LoacalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\emdata-ms So after logout and login again, the layout is still there.ġ.) Open the RES Workspace Manager 2014 ConsoleĢ.) Navigate to Compsotion \ User Settingsģ.) Create a new setting named: Save Windows TilesĤ.) Add the following two files to be saved When you’re usning Windows 8.1 with RES Workspace Manager 2014, you can save this layout. Here you can create your own selection of the most used applications and group them together. Whitin Windiws 8.1 users are able to add there own Windows tiles on the start screen. When you open Mozilla Firefox the next time, the “Settings” is gone! ?Īuthor markswinkels Posted on JanuCategories Ictivity, MDT, Microsoft Windows 8.1, RES Workspace Manager, VDI Tags #RESWM2012, AppData, Firefox, Mozilla, RES WM, Settings, userChrome.css How to: Save Windows tiles in Windows 8.1 using RES Workspace Manager 2014 In my example I’ve added the following rule: You can edit the file userChrome.css in the folder AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Profiles\\chrome to tweak the menu settings within Mozilla Firefox. For example: PowerShell, batchfiles or Group Policy Preferences. In my example I’ve used RES Workspace Manager to distribute the modified files, but you can also use something else.
In some scenario’s you want to remove some buttons within the options of Mozilla Firefox. Because there are not that enhanced group policies for Mozilla Firefox, you’ve to script something.