Friday, September 25, 2020

Connecting or Ending another RDP session in Windows 2012

From "Connecting or Ending another RDP session in Windows 2012"

https://justworks.ca/blog/connecting-or-ending-another-rdp-session-in-windows-2012#:~:text=Simply%20bring%20up%20Task%20Manager,to%20or%20end%20the%20session.&text=Simple%2C%20but%20non%2Dobvious. 

"Simply bring up Task Manager, click More Details to switch to the "Actually Useful" mode, and then click the Users Tab.  All current sessions will be displayed, along with a list of their processes.  Right click on any session to connect to or end the session."




Thursday, September 10, 2020

How to Pin Any Folder to the Start Menu in Windows 10

 Thanks to https://winaero.com/blog/pin-folder-taskbar-windows-10/ for showing me how to pin a folder to the Windows 10 start menu. 

The picture below shows "Pin to taskbar". In my case, it showed "Pin to Start". It will let me open this directory in Windows Explorer quickly. 




Daylight Savings, Outlook Recurring Meetings, and Arizona

I do not remember creating recurring Outlook meeting across time zones. I have colleagues that invite me to meetings that are not in my time zone. The interesting thing is that when daylight savings changes, all the meetings created by those in time zones that observe daylight savings shift one hour for me. 

It got me thinking that if I create a recurring meeting using the Arizona time zone, the meeting will shift for those that are in time zones that do observe daylight savings. 

When I went to make my meeting recurring, I saw this dialog. 

It defaulted to the Arizona time zone since that is where I am. Here are two rules:

   1) If I create a recurring meeting when daylight savings is off, I need to use the the Mountain Time (US & Canada) time zone so that the meeting will shift to a new time (relative to AZ) when daylight savings starts. 

2) If I create a recurring meeting when daylight savings is on, I need to use the the Pacific Time (US & Canada) time zone so that the meeting will shift to a new time (relative to AZ) when daylight savings stops. 

Following these rules should make it so the meeting does not shift for my work mates that are in time zones that do observe daylight savings. The rule can also be stated as: Use the time zone that matches the AZ time zone at the time you create the recurring meeting. 

I tried looking this issue up on the Internet, and did not find this strategy. I have found that this strategy does work for those sane state of Arizona who do not shift their time.