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Schedule a Shutdown & Restart via task scheduler

Y ou will learn how to schedule your computer to reboot at a certain time using the task scheduler. This can be a one-time reboot or a recurring reboot. So these are the steps. STEP 1 Press  win + r  to get the run box. Then type  taskschd.msc  and press enter STEP 2 This will launch Task Scheduler. Right-click on the Task Scheduler Library and select New Folder. Name the new folder as  Schedule Reboot  or anything you like and click OK. STEP 3 Expand Task Scheduler Library and select the Schedule Reboot folder. Then right-click on it and select Create Basic Task. When you select Create Basic Task, it will open a wizard. Name it  Reboot  and click Next. The Trigger section lets you decide when your task needs to be run. You can schedule reboot daily, one time, weekly, etc. Select daily and click next. Specify the time at which you want to run the reboot and click Next. In the Action section, select Start a program and click Next. Type  shutdown /r  in program/script field and click Nex

Remote Desktop Services session timeout Setup in RD Session Host in Windows Servers

  If you face a session time-limit policy issue that gets disconnected in the meantime. You can follow the steps below in order to fix the issue, By default, the user’s RDP session in Windows may stay disconnected until the user or administrator terminates, or the computer is restarted. However, it is quite convenient since a user may connect to his old RDP session and go on working with running programs. In order to terminate disconnected RDP/RDS sessions automatically in a specified time period, you need to set session limits (time-outs) correctly. If you are using an RDS server, you will have to configure session time-out parameters from the RDS collection settings in the Session tab menu. You will have to Specify the time period after which you want to disconnect the RDP session. Lastly, a disconnected session option (by default, a session period is unlimited – Never). Thus, you can set the maximum duration of an active session (Active session limit) and end an idle session (Idle s

Reset 120 day RDS Grace period on 2016 and 2019

  Reset 120 day RDS Grace period on 2016 and 2019  Confirm-deletion-of-the-timebomb-key-in-the-registry If you have a home lab environment or another lab where you continually test various solutions, licensing, and trial expiration is a challenge that you constantly tend to run into. It is just part of the fun of lab environments. While most trials are fairly “hard and fast” and don’t allow you to reset the trial expiration, if you work with Microsoft Windows Server and Remote Desktop Services (RDS), there is a “hack” that allows you to effectively reset the expiration of  Remote Desktop  Services grace period where you can essentially rewind the clock on your RDS licensing if you are making use of this role inside your lab environment. I am using Windows Server 2019 for my Windows workloads in my lab environment. In this post, I will show how to reset 120 day RDS licensing Grace period on 2016 and 2019 Windows Server. Let’s see. Learn how to reset the 120-day Grace Period in Remote De