Jeremy Saunders

Enable Clock on Task Bar for Windows XP and 2003

May 10, 2009

Microsoft made it a real challenge to automate the enabling of the Clock on the taskbar. Some clever people worked out how this can be achieved several years ago by manipulating certain bits of the Settings binary value under the “Stuckrects2” registry key. However, it would only take effect on the 2nd logon, because the […]

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Mastering the default Explorer views for Windows XP and 2003

May 9, 2009

I finally mastered the Windows Explorer views under Windows XP and 2003! The following script is fully documented. Enjoy!

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A long time between posts

April 27, 2009

Wow…the last 4 months have flown by…been so busy at work and home. My New Years resolution was to start blogging every day, but that hasn’t exactly happened! Been working on multiple customer engagements, which has been challenging and absorbed a lot of my time and focus. Have taken a lot of work off the […]

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HTTP to HTTPS Redirection for Citrix Web Interface

December 26, 2008

I wrote this HTTP to HTTPS redirection script for a customer so that they were able to leave TCP port 80 open through their firewall to make the transition over to using the Citrix Secure Gateway (CSG) solution a little less confusing for their users. There were a couple fo goals I wanted to achieve […]

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Citrix Secure Gateway (CSG) 3.1 Deployment Issue

December 19, 2008

Something I found after installing Citrix Secure Gateway (CSG) 3.1 on a server running Web Interface (WI) 5.0.1. It removed permissions from the “%ProgramFiles%\Citrix\Web Interface\5.0.1\Clients” folder and instructed it to inherrit from its parent. Therefore, only the Administrators local group had full control. This was causing problems for client updates and downloads via the CSG […]

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VBScript best practices

December 6, 2008

If you can’t tell by now, I love scripting and coding 🙂 There is nothing you can’t achieve, and no problem that cannot be resolved. But there is an art to doing it right. I start by drawing up an N-S (Nassi-Shneiderman) diagram or flow chart, and then writing it up in pseudocode, which allows […]

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The Challenges of Using VBScript to Create Shortcuts

December 3, 2008

Updated 8th December 2008… Today I was finalising the application deployment for a new XenApp farm. One of the final scripts to create was to place 9 shortcuts on the Desktop of the All Users profile. That’s quite a simple task, and for the most part some would probably just end up copying a bunch of […]

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Using WMI to detect if running on a Windows 2003 or 2008 Terminal Server

December 3, 2008

How can I detect if a Windows 2003/2008 server is configured for Remote Administration or running the Terminal Server role/service?

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The Bees Knees script for installing VMware Tools

December 3, 2008

Updated 19th October 2010… This is what I call the “bees knees” of scripts for deploying VMware Tools. It will detect if it’s being installed on a Terminal/Citrix Server, and remove the appropriate components that may impede performance, etc.

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Implementing a fully automated unattended build process

November 18, 2008

The methodology I use for deploying and managing Citrix XenApp solutions has proven very successful over the years. To maintain a homogeneous environment conducive to stability, utilisation of a well-defined and automated server build process is a best practice. Automated server builds can save countless hours when deploying new servers, rebuilding a problematic one, or […]

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