The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores configuration settings and options on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It contains settings for low-level operating system components as well as the applications running on the platform.
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SSL Cipher Suite Order GPO
Thanks in advance for reading. I'm using Win Server 2012 R2 to dish out group policies.
I've created a GPO to define the SSL Cipher Suite Order under Policies > Admin Templates > Network > SSL Confugration Settings and have set it to "Enabled".
I'm…

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How to mass-reset the owner of registry keys?
After installing Crystal Reports 8 on a Windows Server 2008 machine, many ActiveX related keys have no owner set and thus it is impossible to register certain ActiveX controls on that machine ever again. (This is a known problem)
Is it possible to…

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encounter malformed http response while deploying a docker registry
I came across the following errors as running docker push docker push myregistry.com/testexpose command.
The push refers to a repository [myregistry.com/testexpose]
Put http://myregistry.com/v1/repositories/testexpose/: malformed HTTP response…

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Variable path in *.reg file
I've been a lurker here for a long time and nearly always found a question to my answer using the search question, but this time I need some help. I want to create a script/.reg file that automatically registers some Powerpoint AddIns to the…

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Multiple Issues with Salesforce for Outlook Plugin and Outlook 2013
I've recently started at a company where the sales department relies pretty heavily on Salesforce. There is a strange balance of forces here where the staff really seems to hate Salesforce, and any little excuse of Salesforce 'not working' perfectly…

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Change default Word font without using normal.dotm
I am looking for a way to set default font across our domain without touching normal.dotm.
Some of our users actually have set different settings for their work that are stored within normal.dotm.
The easy (and usual) way would be replacing every…

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How do I setup a 32-bit DLL on 64-bit Windows Server 2012 R2 for Powershell?
I am in the process of upgrading some dated VBScript automation for Powershell on one of our servers running Windows Server 2012 R2. Currently, I'm working on replacing a script that requires the creation of a COM object from a third-party 32-bit…

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How can I populate HKU registry entries through GPO?
I need to disable two different TLS settings in IE Control Panel (TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1). I need this to be applied only once, and to have the user/an admin be able to go in and change the settings without them being applied again. We mostly have…

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Should I go with TLS 1.1/TLS 1.2 instead of SSL v3?
My windows Server 2008R2 has SSL v2 Protocol now. Due to Security breach i have palnned to disable SSL v2.
So should I enable SSL v3 or should i jump directly to TLS 1.1\ TLS
1.2 ?
If I disable SSL v2 and not enabling any of the higher versions…

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Looking for a workaround to install a personal certificate in a mandatory profile
I have recently set up mandatory profiles for a PC image I am creating and I have been able to set up everything I need in the profiles via group policy with the exception of one major item. Apparently mandatory profiles do not allow the…

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Retrieve IP settings from old Windows network adapters
This is pertaining to Windows in general (XP and all recent versions)
After replacing an old motherboard with a new one, the NIC is different, has a new MAC address and generally needs a new TCP/IP configuration. However the old NIC is still…

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MIME/Content type changed after change in server
This is my first question so I apologize if I my post has any mistakes. I've searched about this issue for close to two days now and I still only am a bit closer than I was before.Here is my problem.
We have a website developed using .net 4.5 that…

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Re-Enable RDP Via Remote Registry
I'm having a problem where for some reason, Remote Desktop (RDP) continually gets disabled on a Win2003 server. Our networking team is not doing this, so as far as I know it is not a security script that is running, etc.
In any case, I am able…

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Mandatory profile giving corrupted recycle bin error for all users?
I had to make a few changes to our mandatory profile and ever since that happened any user who logs in using the mandatory profile receives an error saying the \recyclebin\$specificUser$ is corrupted. Clearing the error doesn't help. The next time…

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RunOnce key can't be run at startup with restricted public account in Windows
Let me be brief. We have arround a 1000 public computers for users to use for the internet and office and so on. We image these using SCCM2012r2.
Everything is fine until we added a software package called Time Freeze which basically puts the…

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