How to find startup folder in Windows Server 2012

17 January 2017 Dave-Stuart Windows 2012 R2

From here: http://devonenote.com/2013/09/how-to-find-startup-folder-in-windows-server-2012/

In Windows Server 2008 R2, to define an application to be startup automatically for current user, one common way is to create an application shortcut and add it to startup folder. In Windows Server 2012, you might find you can’t find this startup folder any more. 

Here is the steps to find startup folder in Windows Server 2012.

  1. WinKey + C to open the charms bar
  2. Click “Search”
  3. Enter shell:startup and click on the first result returned.

 

SQL Reporting Services Error- Maximum request length exceeded

17 January 2017 Dave-Stuart SSRS

From here: http://www.isolutionspartners.com/sql-reporting-services-error-maximum-request-length-exceeded/

You could, quite honestly, run into this error in a lot of situations involving a web app, but we’re talking specifically about SSRS in this post. The basic problem here, is that your posting an amount of data to a web app larger than it is configured to accept.  Hence, it is throwing an error.

It’s an easy fix though.  You’ve got to adjust the web.config for the web app, which in the case of reporting server, is usually somewhere like this:

For SQL Server 2012: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS11.MSSQLSERVER2012\Reporting Services\ReportServer

Find the web.config file for your reporting services instance, open it up, and track down the line that looks something like this

executionTimeout = "9000" />

Now just add a max request length attribute in there to fix the problem, adjust your size as needed.  This is 5meg.

executionTimeout = "9000" maxRequestLength="500000" />

And now you’ll need to restart IIS.  start->run->”iisreset”

RDP Use All Monitors is disabled

17 January 2017 Dave-Stuart Windows

From here: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2009/07/01/using-multiple-monitors-in-remote-desktop-session/   

If your RDP's "Use all my monitors for the remote session" is disabled you can get around it as follows.

1. Create an RDP file with your specific connection.
2. Right click on the .rdp file and select Open with Notepad.
3. Add the following 2 lines to the bottom.

span monitors:i:1
use multimon:i:1

4. Save and then use!

Have a great day!