Manage Wi-Fi Sense with GPO windows 2012 R2

To disable the Wifi sense  in  with the group policy in windows 2012 R2  first need to install the newest ADMX files

( check the following guide to how to install the ADMX files  https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9157947954397602792#allposts)

then go to group policy manager and go to

Computer Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Network \ WLAN Service \ WLAN Settings\

and Desable Allow Windows to automatically connected to suggested open hostpots. to network shared by contracts and to hotspots  offering paid Service.

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Installing ADMX files to windows 2012 R2 Server

I waned to disable Wi-Fi Sense in windows 10 in our environment with Windows Server 2012 R2 GPO as i go with the recommended method of Microsoft (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/manage-wifi-sense-in-enterprise)

Found the the that settings were not available in Windows 2012 R2 Server.

To over come this need to install the latest ADMX files that defined for Windows 10 and Windows server 2016.

Download the latest ADMX files form ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=53430)

After extracting the files go to the folder


C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Group Policy\Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016\PolicyDefinitions

Note : with default  Microsoft sending lot of language packs then remove the unnecessary language files.

Copy the all the files in to the policy directory.

 C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol\examble.com\Policies

Now go the Group Policy  Manager and check the wither new settings are available.

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Cant Log in to Mi Band app

If you encounter that you cannot log in to the MI band App in android do following.

• log in to the mi account form a web browser (https://account.xiaomi.com)
• then note account no show near your account name.
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• Now open the Mi Band app form the phone and type the account no as user name  and the password when you created the account.
  

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Configure SMTP in Windows 2012 for Office 365

Install SMTP service from windows 2012 form add server role.

select  IIS and click next

Select SMTP form next window

Go to Internet Information Service (IIS) 6.0 Manager

and select  SMTP Virtual Server and go to properties.

In the General tab go to Advanced and select the ip address and port.

Go to delivery and select Outbound Security.

Select Basic Authentication

in the user name and password give the office 365 account username and password.

 In the Outbound Connections change the TCP port to 587

Then select Advanced give the smart host as.

SMTP.office365.com

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Enable GUI in Windows Server 2012 R2 Core

To enable GUI to Windows Server 2012 Core do as follows

01. Mount the Windows Server 2012 ISO File
02. Open Power shell



Mount-Diskimage

ImagePath[0]: path to iso file
ImagePath[1]: leave blank



(Note : exit form the Power Shell mode)
03. Create a folder to mount the installation files

mkdir c:\mnt

04. get the index

dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:ISO file path

dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:d:\sources\install.wim 




(Note: the core instillation version in my case it was 4)

06.Mount the iso file with the created working directory

 dism /mount-wim /wimfile:d:\sources\install.wim /index:4 /mountdir:c:\mnt /readonly

07. Go to power shell mode

powershell

08. Install GUI feature 

install-windowsfeature server-gui-mgmt-infra,server-gui-shell -restart -source c:\mnt\windows\winsxs




This will restart the server and after the restart it will have the GUI interface.

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