Jeremy Saunders

What does the NetApp ONTAP cifs access share -m command do?

September 9, 2012

I recently had a Software Vendor tell me that we needed to run the “cifs access share -m” command on the NetApp Filers/vFilers in order to integrate their product correctly. According to the NetApp documentation it “specifies that access is being modified for Windows machine accounts”. Okay…fair enough. But wouldn’t you typically have this access enabled for […]

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An improved and enhanced version of the famous LaunchApp.wsf

September 3, 2012

Have you ever wondered why your logon script fails to map network drives when an Administrative user logs onto a computer with User Account Control (UAC) enabled; even though the drive mapping process completes successfully? To understand this you need to read the section from “Group Policy Scripts can fail due to User Account Control” […]

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Finding Orphaned Group Policy Objects

September 3, 2012

Group Policy Objects (GPOs) are stored in two parts: GPC (Group Policy Container). The GPC is where the GPO stores all the AD-related configuration under the CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=… container, which is replicated via AD replication. GPT (Group Policy Templates). The GPT is where the GPO stores the actual settings located within SYSVOL area under the Policies folder, which […]

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NetApp Filers and vFilers generating Netlogon Event ID 5722 errors on Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controllers

August 7, 2012

I have a customer where the NetApp Filers and vFilers are generating Netlogon Event ID 5722 in the System event log on the Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controllers. Example: Log Name:           System Source:                NETLOGON Date:                 […]

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Citrix Community Featured Web Page

December 16, 2009

I was stoked to find out that my web site has been listed on the Citrix Featured Community Sites Web Page 🙂 How cool is that?

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VDI and Storage: Deep Impact

December 11, 2009

AWESOME document!!! This is a MUST read. http://virtuall.eu/download-document/vdi-storage-deep-impact Ruben Spruijt blogged about it on Brian Madden’s web site, and received a lot of great comments worth reading. Here is the PDF incase the link above does not work: VDI_and_Storage_-_Deep_Impact-v1.0.pdf Since the release of this document, there has been some fantastic comments and blogs posted around […]

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Installing the HP Universal Print Drivers on Citrix/Terminal Servers

December 9, 2009

I have found the latest batch of HP’s Universal Printer Drivers to be the very stable. The command line I use for installing the HP Universal Print Drivers on Citrix/Terminal servers is as follows: Version 5.0 PCL 5 install.exe /q /npf /nd /dod /dos /dpm /ddu /dso /gdssnp /snptm=0 /dm /dmpa /dads /pqdmpa /pqdads Version […]

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My First Stand-up Comedy Experience

December 8, 2009

As an IT Geek, I’m very much an introvert, or as I like to say, an introverted extrovert 🙂 One of my personal goals in life is to do Improvisation Comedy also known as Theatre Sports. It’s awesome fun, and extremely funny when you’ve got the right mix of people and personalities playing off each […]

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How to prevent certain MS Outlook dialog boxes from showing?

December 6, 2009

This script will manage the “PONT_STRING” registry value to control the “Don’t Show Dialog” Setting for some of the Outlook dialog boxes that don’t have a simple way of preventing them from showing via a Group Policy Setting, etc. Under Outlook 2007 there are two particular dialog boxes that may prompt the user when a […]

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WAN Emulation for VDI and SBC Testing

November 29, 2009

WANem (Wide Area Network Emulation) is an awesome tool for emulating a WAN in your test/dev environment or even a demo lab. I use it in my demo lab to show customers how the technologies might behave in their environment. WANem is a piece of software running on Knoppix, a well-known Linux distribution based on […]

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