In Windows 10 and Windows 11, when you log into an app (e.g. Teams) with your Microsoft Online account, you might get a pop-up:
Stay signed in to all your apps
You will have a big OK button to accept this or a small link saying "No, sign in to this app only". If you click on the OK button, all Apps that use a Microsoft Online account will now be logged in with the account. In addition, Windows tries to do a Workplace Join to Azure. So in most cases, clicking OK does more bad than good.
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Windows 11 brings a new version of the context menus (the ones that appear when you right-click on a folder, for example). They contain less items, so this can be quite annoying. If you want to bring back the behaviour from Windows 10, do either of the following:
Open the Command Prompt (admin) and run the “reg add “HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32″ /f /ve” command
Open the Registry in the “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\CLASSES\CLSID” Read more [...]
With security update KB5031364 from October 10, 2023 for Windows Server 2022, Microsoft also installs the Azure ARC Setup and adds it to auto start. This means that on the server, you will now see the Azure ARC Setup in the system tray.
Most server administrators do not like this silent adding of unneeded features. To get rid of this, you can use the following Powershell (as admin) command:
Remove-WindowsFeature AzureArcSetup
This needs a restart of the server.
What is Azure ARC?
This Read more [...]
Starting a month ago, I occasionally get the following pop-up in Edge:
Download Microsoft Edge mobile app
Take your AI-powered copilot for the web on the go!
This is not a pop-up coming from a web site, but a built-in pop up from the browser itself.
So how can this and similar pop-ups from Microsoft be permanently disabled in Edge? Here you go:
In the browser bar, type edge://flags. This will present a list with browser experimental options.
Type Show feature and workflow recommendations Read more [...]
When you try to issue a new certificate on a Windows client, this might not work and you get the following error:
The certificate has invalid policy. 0x800b0113 (CERT_E_INVALID_POLICY)
The root cause of this is that the issuing CA has restricted the issuance policies you can use. If you have created a certificate template that uses a policy that is not allowed, you will get that error message.
There is a quick and dirty method to get rid of this error (but it also makes your CA a bit more Read more [...]
I had recently created a bootable USB disk for a Linux distro. After I did not use that anymore, I wanted to format it in my Windows 10 machine. But it was not recognized anymore. No drive letter, not visible in File Explorer.
In "Disk Management" it was visible, but I could not format it there either.
Using command line tool "Diskpart" did not help either as the "clean" command ended with an "Access Denied" error.
In the end, the folloing sequence of commands helped me in "Diskpart":
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When a client or a server that is joined to a Windows Domain loses the trust relationship to its object in Active Directory, you normally get this error message, when you try to login:
The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed
What you then normally do, is to un-join the computer from the domain and join it again.
The problem with with a Windows CA (Certificate Authority) Server is that you cannot un-join it from the domain. So that would mean you have to Read more [...]
To avoid the typical picture on the background of your desktop, use the following procedure to force a solid blue color as background:
Start the Group Policy Editor: gpedit.msc
Go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Desktop > Desktop
Open Desktop Wallpaper
Enable it and set the Wallpaper Name to:
C:\Windows\Web\Screen\img105.jpg
Click on OK to save the changes
While you could also just right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize and set a Read more [...]
