The “No Internet Access” notification on the network connection icon usually appears when you’re not connected to the Internet or you probably behind a proxy server. However, when you setting up your servers in an isolated environment without Internet access and you want to disable this notification then:

1. Open the GPMC.msc.
2. Create or open a GPO which will be applied to your server(s).
3. Navigate to Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Network\Network Connections.
4. Enable the “Do not show the “local access only” network icon” setting.
5. Close the GPO and GPMC.msc.
6. Run C:\>gpupdate on the server(s) to apply the new policy.

The “No Internet Access” notification should be disabled now.

Cheers!

- Marek.Z

Recently I came across the following issue on a HP DL380 G5 server with freshly installed Windows Server 2008 R2 (click on the picture for a larger image). 

I have no idea what caused this. Probably an unfinished Windows installation or something. Anyway, it was annoying me so I decided to remove the invalid boot configuration identifier from the boot configuration data store. 

1. When logged in with an Administrator account, start the command prompt.
2. Next, display de identifiers and  locate the invalid one: C:\>bcdedit /enum /v
3. Remove the invalid entry by typing: C:\>bcdedit /delete {identifier from step 2} /cleanup
4. You should get the “The operation completed successfully” message.
5. Verify that the invalid entry is removed by typing: C:\>bcdedit /enum /v
6. Exit the command prompt and reboot the server. 

The server should boot without displaying the Windows Boot Manager menu. 

Cheers! 

- Marek.Z