Enable Logons to Domain Accounts Using Biometric Fingerprint Reader

On Microsoft Windows 7 or Windows 8 systems, the user can enable the Domain account logon from the biometric settings in the Control Panel. However, the biometric settings are not available in the Control Panel on Microsoft Windows 8.1 system. To enable the Domain account logon on Microsoft Windows 8.1 systems complete the steps below.

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Click "Windows + R" for Run command. type GPEDIT.MSC

Expand "Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components >

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This will display the Local Group Policy Editor Window

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Expand the Group Policy

Expand "Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Biometrics"

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Double Click

Double click on "Allow Domain users to log on using biometics" in the right pane. The "Allow domain users to log on using biometrics" window is displayed. 

Enable

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Select "Enabled"

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OK

Click "OK" Close GPEDIT.msc
 Now open Run command (windows + R) to update group policy for apply the change in users.

Windows 10 Freezes Randomly

Windows 10 Freezes Randomly

Some of your programs and drivers may work without issues, but some may just become incompatible of which the most common one affected is the Video/Graphics driver. There are other causes as well aside from Video/Graphic driver but since this is the most common one, we will troubleshoot it first.

Update Graphics/Video Drivers

There are two ways to do this, the first one is to update via Device Manager and the second one is to update from the manufacturer’s site.

Hold the Windows Key and Press X. Choose Device Manager and navigate to Display adapters. Right-click your graphic card name, (write down the name of the adapter on a paper as well) and then Choose Update driver software -> Search automatically for updated driver software -> And proceed with the instructions on screen. If the driver is found and updated, reboot PC and then test for a while to see if it still hangs or freezes, if it does then go to the manufacture’s site, and download the drivers from there and install them, reboot and test. Once you’ve updated the graphic driver and the issue persists, update the audio driver in the same way and test.

If the issue is still not fixed, then we may be having issues with winsock.

Reset the Winsock Catalog

Hold the Windows Key and Press X. Choose Command Prompt (Admin). In the command prompt, type the following command and press enter.
netsh winsock reset
Then reboot the PC and test.

Do a Clean Boot

Clean boot is a good way to stop and disable non-Microsoft services and programs which may be interfering with the routine processes.

How to Clean Boot Windows 8/8.1/10

Clean Booting a Windows 10 Computer

Hold the Windows Key and press R;

In the run dialog that opens up type msconfig and click OK

This will load system configuration window. From here; choose the Services Tab, then put a check on Hide All Microsoft Services and select Disable All.

Then Click Apply, and Click OK. It will prompt you to restart; choose Restart Later. Hold Windows Key and Press R again; then type msconfig and click OK. This time when the System Configuration dialog box opens; choose Start Up and select Open Task Manager. From this pane; look at the last field called Start-Up Impact; and disable all the ones with High Impact. You can disable it by right clicking on it and choosing Disable. This only disables them from automatically starting up when the compute reboot; so you can still start them up normally, and re-enable it later if you it to be started up automatically via same steps as above, instead of choosing disable; you choose Enable.
Once this is done; reboot your system and it will start up in the clean boot mode.

Increase Virtual Memory

Virtual Memory is supposed to act as a saviour where the physical memory (RAM) runs out when running resource intensive programs. To compensate RAM, Virtual Memory combines the RAM with TEMP Storage on your Hard Disk. Many users have reported that there freezing issue was fixed by increasing the Virtual Memory to 8 GB.

To increase VM (Virtual Memory), Hold the Windows Key and Press R. Type sysdm.cpl and Click OK.  Then click Advanced -> Settings -> Advanced -> Changed. Uncheck Automatically Manage paging file size for all drives, and choose Custom Size. Set Initial Size to 1000 and Maximum Size to 8192. Then Click OK and Reboot the PC.

Turn Off Link State Power Management

Link State Power Management is a power saving mechanism. It has two options, the first one which is Moderate Power Savings, saves less power but recovers quickly from the sleep state. The second one, Maximum Power Savings, saves more power and the time to recover from sleep state is increased. If you turn it off, the LSPM won’t come into play. Users reported that turning this feature off helped with blank screens, and freezing issues specially where NVIDIA/AMD Graphic Cards were being used.
Hold the Windows Key and Press R. Type powercfg.cpl and Click OK. Click Change Plan Settings for your Active Plan. Then choose Change Advanced Power Settings, scroll down until you see PCI Express -> Link State Power Management -> Click “whatever” the option is next to Settings, and set it to Off. Then test.

Turn Off Fast Startup

Right-click on the Start Menu button to open the WinX Menu.
Click on Power Options.
Click on Choose what the power buttons do in the right pane of the window.
Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable.
Uncheck the checkbox beside Turn On Fast Startup (recommended), thus disabling it.
Click on Save changes.

Switch your Broadcom network adapter’s driver software to the Microsoft one

Another solution to this issue that many affected users have experienced success with is updating their Broadcom network adapter’s driver software to the software provided by Microsoft. In some cases, Broadcom’s own driver software for its network adapters can lead to a Windows 10 computer freezing up randomly, which is why switching to the Microsoft variant of the driver software manages to fix this problem in such cases. However, as you may have already guessed, only users with affected computers that have Broadcom network adapters can use this solution to try and fix this issue.
Switching to the Microsoft variant of a Broadcom network adapter’s driver software is pretty simple as the driver software is already there on your computer – all you need to do is switch your Broadcom network adapter over to it. In order to apply this solution, you need to:
Right-click on the Start Menu button to launch the WinX Menu.
In the WinX Menu, click on Device Manager.
Once the Device Manager window is launched, locate and double-click on Network adapters to expand that section of the Device Manager.
Locate your computer’s Broadcom network adapter under the Network adapters section, right-click on it and click on Properties in the context menu.
Navigate to the Driver
Click on Update Driver….
Click on Browse my computer for driver software.
Click on Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.
You should see two different variants of driver software for your Broadcom network adapter – click on the Microsoft variant to select it and then click on Next, at which point your computer will begin installing the Microsoft variant of the driver software and all you need to do is sit back and wait for the installation to finish.
Once the Microsoft variant of the driver software has been installed, you can exit the Device Manager, restart your computer and check to see whether or not the problem has been resolved.

User Suggested Method: Turn Off Location Services

I was having the same issues and what I noticed in the Event viewer was that the GPS location was trying to report to Microsoft. I have a desktop so I turned off the location services and no more freezing. Go to Settings, Privacy, Location and turn that off.

New web project Deploy in AZURE

Deploy an ASP.NET web application to a web app in Azure App Service by using Visual Studio 2015.
       1. create a new App Service web app while you create a new web project in Visual Studio.
       2. deploy a web project to an App Service web app by using Visual Studio.

 Download the latest Azure SDK for Visual Studio 2015. The SDK installs Visual Studio 2015 if you don't already have it.

Configure a new web project

Your next step is to create a web project in Visual Studio and a web app in Azure App Service. In this section of the tutorial you configure the new web project.

1. Open Visual Studio 2015.
2. Click File > New > Project.
3. In the New Project dialog box, click Visual C# > Web > ASP.NET Web Application.
4. Make sure that .NET Framework 4.5.2 is selected as the target framework.
5. Azure Application Insights monitors your web app for availability, performance, and usage. The Add Application Insights to Project check box is selected by default the first time you create a web project after installing Visual Studio. Clear the check box if it's selected but you don't want to try Application Insights.
6. Name the application MyExample, and then click OK.
   
   
   

     7. In the New ASP.NET Project dialog box, select the MVC template, and then click Change   Authentication.

         8.  In the Change Authentication dialog box, click No Authentication, and then click OK.

           For this getting-started tutorial you're deploying a simple app that doesn't do user log-in.

       9. In the Microsoft Azure section of the New ASP.NET Project dialog box, make sure that   Host    in the cloud is selected and that App Service is selected in the drop-down list.

    These settings direct Visual Studio to create an Azure web app for your web project. Click OK .

Configure Azure resources for a new web app

Now you tell Visual Studio about the Azure resources that you want it to create.

1. In the Create App Service dialog, click Add an account, and then sign in to Azure with the ID and password of the account that you use to manage your Azure subscription.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   If you already signed in earlier on the same computer, you might not see the Add an account button. In that case, you can skip this step or you might need to reenter your credentials.
   
   2. Enter a Web App Name that is unique in the azurewebsites.net domain. For example, you can name it MyExample with numbers to the right to make it unique, such as SrikanthGoud220160519052528. If a default web name is created for you, it will be unique and you can use that.
   If someone else has already used the name that you enter, you see a red exclamation mark to the right instead of a green check mark, and you have to enter a different name.
   The URL for your application is this name plus .azurewebsites.net. For example, if the name is SrikanthGoud220160519052528, the URL is SrikanthGoud220160519052528.azurewebsites.net.
   
   
   
   Click the New button next to the Resource Group box, and then enter "MyExample" or another name if you prefer.  
   
   
   A resource group is a collection of Azure resources such as web apps, databases, and VMs. For a tutorial, it's generally best to create a new resource group because that makes it easy to delete in one step any Azure resources that you create.
   
   
   3. Click the New button next to the App Service Plan drop-down.
   
   
   
   
   In the following steps, you configure an App Service plan for the new resource group. An App Service plan specifies the compute resources that your web app runs on.
   if you choose the free tier, your API app runs on shared VMs, while for some paid tiers it runs on dedicated VMs.
   
   
   1. In the Configure App Service Plan dialog, enter "Srikanth220160519052528" or another name if you prefer.
   2. In the Location drop-down list, choose the location that is closest to you.
      This setting specifies which Azure datacenter your app will run in. For this tutorial, you can select any region and it won't make a noticeable difference. But for a production app, you want your server to be as close as possible to the clients that are accessing it, to minimize latency.
   3. In the Size drop-down, click Free.
      For this tutorial, The free pricing tier will provide good enough performance.
   4. In the Configure App Service Plan dialog, click OK.
   5. In the Create App Service dialog box, click Create.
   
   

   Visual Studio creates the project and web app

   In a short time, usually less than a minute, Visual Studio creates the web project and the web app.
   The Solution Explorer window shows the files and folders in the new project.
   
   
   

The Azure App Service Activity window shows that the web app has been created.

Deploy the web project to the Azure web app

       1. In Solution Explorer, right-click the project, and choose Publish.

In a few seconds, the Publish Web wizard appears. The wizard opens to a publish profile that has settings for deploying the web project to the new web app.
The publish profile includes a user name and password for deployment. These credentials have been generated for you, and you don't have to enter them. The password is encrypted in a hidden user-specific file in the Properties\PublishProfiles folder.
On the Connection tab of the Publish Web wizard, click Next.

Next is the Settings tab. Here you can change the build configuration to deploy a debug build for remote debugging. The tab also offers several File Publish Options.On the Settings tab, click Next.

The Preview tab is next. Here you have an opportunity to see what files are going to be copied from your project to the API app. When you're deploying a project to an API app that you already deployed to earlier, only changed files are copied. If you want to see a list of what will be copied, you can click the Start Preview button.On the Preview tab, click Publish.

When you click Publish, Visual Studio begins the process of copying the files to the Azure server. This may take a minute or two.The Output and Azure App Service Activity windows show what deployment actions were taken and report successful completion of the deployment.

 

Upon successful deployment, the default browser automatically opens to the URL of the deployed web app, and the application that you created is now running in the cloud. The URL in the browser address bar shows that the web app is loaded from the Internet.

  Thanks  

  Srikanth Goud

 Virtualization Administrator   

 

Prevent Access to Disk Drive In Windows 10

You can Prevent access to Disk Drive in Windows 10 with the help of group policy editor feature. Suppose you pc is shared by another user in your office or home. If you have any important data on a drive which you don’t want to share. Then you can protect your drive access by other user. If you will enable this feature then user can’t be able to access specific drive. Its a great feature in windows 10.

Prevent Access to Disk Drive In Windows 10

First of all Press Windows Key + R from keyboard, then Run Dialog box will prompt then type gpedit.msc. Click on OK button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now on the Local Group Policy editor windows, Navigate below key from the left pane…

User Configuration => Administrative template => Windows Components => File Explorer

Then on the right pane scroll down and Double-Click on Prevent access to drives from Computer options. Or Right-click on it and then Click on Edit.

Now on the next windows, Select Enabled radio button, Then under option Drop-down menu select drive which you want to Restrict. Then Click on Apply and OK. In my case I have choose D:Drive.

Now when user will try to access Disk Drive which you have restrict then it will show message “This operation has been cancelled due to restriction in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator. ” 

If you want to remove restriction then follow 1-3 steps. Then Select Not Configure radio button and then Click on Apply and OK.  

 

Srikanth Goud

Virtualization Administrator