1. You have to have administration rights for this – open an elevated powershell prompt and type: Install-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Mgmt-Infra, Server-Gui-Shell –Restart press Enter for the cmdlet to install the Server 2012 user interface.

Having problems when you try opening the Vista Control panel and all you see is the outline of the window?

Follow the instructions below to repair it.

1. Left Click the Vista “Orb”

2. Left Click All Programs

3. Left Click Accessories

4. Left Click Notepad

5. Copy & paste the following into Notepad (To copy, select the text below and click Copy. To paste, right click on where you would like to paste it and select Paste)

net stop readyboost

net stop slsvc

net start slsvc

net start readyboost

@cls

7. Click File

8. click Save

9. Save the file as “ControlPanelFix.bat” and close Notepad

10. Run the ControlPanelFix.bat file.

Note: You can also try accessing parts of Control Panel by going to Computer, and in the left hand pane, select Control Panel

1. First you need to download – PSEXEC – a command line tool that will allow you to execute commands on remote workstations.

2. Once downloaded open My Computer/Computer and navigate to: C:\Windows\System32 on your local machine.

3. Extract the zip file contents to the System32 folder (this will allow you to run the psexec command from any folder within Command Prompt).

4. Navigate to your Documents or Desktop and create a new txt file called: computernames.txt

5. In the computernames.txt document – add (one in each new line) the computer names that you will like to add the user to the Administrators group of.

6. Once they have been added – save the time with the computer names.

7. Now we need to create a batch script – open a new Notepad document and in the first line type:

   PSEXEC.EXE @computernames.txt NET LOCALGROUP Administrators DOMAIN**USERID** /ADD

8. Replace – DOMAIN & USERID with the user you would like to add.

9. Press File and click Save As and type in: “addusers_multiple.bat”

10. This will save the file as a batch script

11. Now – run the script to start importing the users into the remote computers local administrators group.

Note: Proper syntac allows for the group name to be set like ” NET LOCALGROUP “Administrators” – however my test on a Windows XP workstation didn’t like the “” so I got rid of them – if you encounter an error with unable to find local group – re add them around the group name in the script.

Note: Tested on Windows 7 workstations without an issue.

1. Open VMWare Service Manager
2. Open the managers People record
3. On the left hand menu select Delegation
4. Click Add – and add the user that you want to delegate approval to.
5. Select Notify Delegate to send an email to the delegate so they are aware of the change. Make sure Activate Delegation is ticked.
6. You have now setup delegation!

Note: The intended guide for this audience is a Help Desk or Service Desk – this is intended for a domain setup with the user having local administration rights on the workstation.

1. First, you need to download tool called: Delprof2 (this is a remake of the Microsoft Delprof utility that Microsoft had dropped support & updates for)
2. Once downloaded open My Computer/Computer and navigate to c:\Windows\System32 on your local machine.
3. Extract the delprof2 zip file & folder and copy DelProf2.exe to the folder you opened earlier – c:\Windows\System32
4. Now – open command prompt – click Start, Run and type in cmd and press Enter (For Windows 7 workstations – you can type Command in the search field or press the Windows Key + R to open the run dialog box).
5. REMEMBER to make sure the profiles are backed up first – this will completely remove the local cache – use the syntax: delprof2 /u /r /c:computername and press Enter. This will connect to the remote workstation you specified in the “computername” field and remove all locally cached profiles that are not being used. It will also clear up remote registry entries making this a useful & easy tool for clearing up Roaming Profiles in Windows 7-10.

You can also run: delprof2 /u /d:30 /c:computername

Note: What I have done in the past is create a batch script that will clear up remote profiles from workstations & add this to a scheduled task – in conjunction with SCCM disk reporting this is useful for keeping on top of workstation’s HDD space.