FWI Error Cannot Deploy to Any of the Player Machines

Four Winds Interactive digital signage error.

FWI Error cannot deploy to any of the player machines

When you make changes to the signage template in the Content Manager Desktop to change a video or other part of the display and receive the following error:

Error “Cannot deploy to any of the player machines. Check your network configuration or machine properties and deploy again”
Status: Player machine not configured.

Resolution:
Login to display connected player (Intel NUC) and open the Content Player Configuration.

Go to the Device tab – Advanced section – add a check mark in the box for “Allow player data to be access as a network share” and then click ok.

In red, you see the warning about opening a network share on the player. This is what allows the content manager desktop deployment manager to access and upload new files to the player.  You will then notice you can see the share that it creates called “Signage” by default.

In case you were wondering where those files being deployed to the signage were at – they are inside the share using the following path: shared folder called “Signage\Channels\(default)\Content”
On the device locally you can browse C:\Users\Public\Documents\Four Winds Interactive\Signage\Channels\(default)\Content

Now you can try to redeploy your updated changes to the signage device from your Content Manager Desktop.


SCDPM 2018 Install Error SQL mgmt Tools Not Installed

SCDPM 2018 install error SQL mgmt tools not installed

How to fix the SCDPM 2018 install error SQL mgmt tools are not installed.  While installing SCDPM 2018 I received an error that the SQL mgmt tools were not installed even though I did install them.  Turns out, SCDPM version 1801 requires a specific version of the SQL mgmt tools or the install will fail.  See the video below for the fix.

How to Install the Ring Video Doorbell Pro

How to Install Ring Video Doorbell Pro

It was time to update my house with some additional security features.
I researched several companies and settled on the Ring Video Doorbell Pro .
Below is my complete video review (unboxing, installation, configuration and sample videos from my doorbell).

As you will see in the video – the installation was not complicated and I especially like being able to answer my door using my phone no matter where I am if someone comes to my house!

If you decide you want to have this for your own house – here’s a link to the one I bought and used in the above video review Ring Video Doorbell Pro .

In a future post, I’ll be reviewing the IP Security cameras that I’m currently installing on the outside of my house.

How to Change From Frames to Seconds In After Effects

Recently Adobe installed an update and when I went into my After Effects project – the display timeline had changed to frames.  I was working on a new intro that was only 7-10 seconds long and it was easier to add/remove parts by using second markers.  As I’m somewhat new to After Effects, I did what most techies do – I googled how to change this back.  I found several people were asking the same question and I looked at many posts about how to fix this and none of them worked for me.

Here’s a video I made on how I fixed this for my scenario.  The short intro in this video was actually the original project I was trying to create when this frames to seconds problem happened.

How to Setup Password Reset Website Free on Server 2012

If you want to have a password reset website for your users but don’t want to purchase a 3rd party solution – you can still do this using Microsoft 2012 Server.

Setup Free Windows Server Password Reset Website

How to setup a password reset website using Server 2012 RD Web

Choose a server to install this role. For my environment, I chose to use the print server.

1. Install RD Web Access from the Remote Desktop Services. Remote desktop to your server (I’m installing this on my print server) and open Server Manager.  Add Roles and Features – Next – Remote Desktop Services installation – Next.

2. Choose Standard deployment – Next.
Choose Session-based desktop deployment – Next.
On Role Services – Choose Next.

3. On Specify RD Connection Broker server – select your server – add it and choose Next.

4. On Specify RD Web Access server – Place a checkmark in the Install the RD Web Access role service and click Next.

5. On Specify RD Session Host servers – select your server – add it and choose Next.

6. Confirm your selections – place check mark in Restart the server and click Deploy.

7. When the server finishes restarting – Launch Server Manager and wait for it to complete. Once it completes, you will see a pop up regarding licensing mode.

In my experience, as long as you do not install the RD Licensing then the RD password reset website that we are going to configure next will continue to work after the 119 days.

Setting up the website and related configurations for domain password reset

8. Launch Server Manager – Tools – IIS Manager
Expand Sites – Default Website – RDWeb – Pages – then in the middle pane – open Application Settings.

9. Double click PasswordChangeEnabled and switch the value to true and click OK.

10.
 Now your Password reset website is enabled and you can test it by going to this address on your server: https://yourservername.domain.com/RDWeb/Pages/en-US/password.aspx

When someone needs to change their password I now send them this link and they can do it remotely.

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