Jeremy Saunders

Running Logoff Scripts in Novell Environments

August 6, 2008

Updated 28th October 2010. Due to a lot of requests and feedback, this script in now included as part of the script posted under Scripting updates to the GPT.ini for the Local Group Policy. Cheers, Jeremy.

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Managing MS Office 2007 Quick Access Toolbar(s) with Roaming Profiles

August 4, 2008

Hmmm…why oh why would Microsoft place the Office 2007 Quick Access Toolbar (.qat) files in the “%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Office” folder rather than the “%appdata%\Microsoft\Office” folder??? The “Local Settings” folder does not roam, nor would you want it to, so I don’t understand their thought process behind this one. The only real workaround is to use logon […]

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Script to replace Delprof.exe

July 30, 2008

Joe Shonk has written a very nice Delete Profiles Script to replace the lack of flexibility found in the DELPROF.exe tool. I’ve used it for my latest XenApp rollout, and have found that it works really well 🙂 See below for further information as to how I have implemented it. Warren Simondson of Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy […]

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Script to remove printers

July 30, 2008

I wrote this script to help a customer cleanup user profiles and remove unsupported printers. This script can safely be executed in each user session and works a treat. It stamps the registry after the first time it runs, so that it can be left in place to capture all users, whilst only ever removing the […]

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Script to remove orphaned/stale printer objects

July 29, 2008

I wrote this script to help a customer clean up old orphaned and stale printer objects from user profiles. This script can safely be executed in each user session and works a treat. However, you may first want to try my script to remove printers the traditional way. Here is the RemoveOrphanedPrinters.vbs script.

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Modifying the Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset driver for Windows XP

July 13, 2008

I wrote this article after experiencing screen resolution issues with my new Toshiba notebook that uses the Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset. I use an external ViewSonic VX2235wm monitor at home that requires a resolution of 1680 x 1050 to get the full windescreen experience with good colour and crisp text, and was disappointed when […]

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Citrix on VI3.x Recommendations and Tuning

July 13, 2008

Here’s a pretty good article posted by Sven Huisman on behalf of Verron Martina from VMware: http://virtualfuture.info/2008/07/citrix-on-vi3x-recommendations/  Some more notes from Jamie Morrison: http://theether.net/kb/100072

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Application Virtualization

July 13, 2008

Sven Huisman and Matthijs Haverink have published a great comparison chart of various application virtualization products: http://virtualfuture.info/2008/06/virtualfuture-appchart/

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Citrix Load Evaluators

July 9, 2008

It has always been my opinion that the CPU Utilisation and Page Swaps rules are highly variable, and therefore do not often represent the real load of a server. CPU Utilisation can often be too erratic to provide consistent load balancing. Now days you have the CPU Optimisation feature, or a 3rd Party management app […]

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Microsoft Windows 2003 Post-SP2 Hotfixes

May 15, 2008

Why should we apply hotfixes? Some IT Administrators take the approach that if they are not experiencing the issues/symptoms referred to in the knowledge base article; they shouldn’t be deploying the hotfix. However, from experience we understand that the vendor doesn’t always document all issues addressed, so there also needs to be an understanding of […]

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