ThinApp Editor

November 11, 2008

The guys over at Virtual Software have just released a neat little tool called ThinApp Editor. “ThinApp Editor is an easy to use editing tool for VMware’s ThinApp capture files.” Very nice!

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What the customer really needed

October 30, 2008

Following on from my previous article titled “How to pick a good Consultant/Integrator to Partner with?“, I believe that this project cartoon describes the challenges of communicating and executing customer requirements, and is very relevant to what I see a lot of in the IT & T industry.

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Displaying useful connection information on the desktop wallpaper

October 27, 2008

Updated on 6th April 2010… Like most IT professionals, I’ve been using Bginfo to embed some useful information in the wallpaper of a users Desktop for some years now. So what you say! Well…not too long ago Warren Simondson of CTRL-ALT-DEL IT Consultancy created a couple of cool utilities called TSBackdrop and PCBackdrop. I was […]

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Online VMWare VI3 Training

October 22, 2008

Got this e-mail today from virtualizationuniversity.com. Some colleagues and customers may find it of value…

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Print Spooler Self Healing 2.0

October 21, 2008

I was driven to write this script for a client that was using Novell’s iPrint. iPrint was causing some threads to hang, ending the spoolsv.exe process, and therefore stopping the Print Spooler service. Those of you that are using such poor printing solutions would no doubt have clocked up a considerable number of headaches. The good […]

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How to pick a good Consultant/Integrator to Partner with?

October 21, 2008

Since leaving IBM and moving on to greener pastures at Datacom, I have been given the opportunity to review several Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server) deployments around town. Time and time again I find… Poorly deployed servers with little or incorrect tuning. Applications that have been badly or incorrectly packaged, if at all. Documentation that is […]

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Intelligently changing the drive letter assignment for multiple CD/DVD ROM Drives

October 19, 2008

Diskpart may fail when creating more than one partition when executing the “assign letter=D” command. This is because Windows, WinPE included, by default assigns the first CD-ROM “type” drive to the first available letter after C:. So if you are partitioning a new server, or repartitioning a server that contains only 1 partition (C:), the CD-ROM drive […]

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Place a XenApp Server in and out of service the easy way

September 8, 2008

The new theory for placing a server off-line is to apply an “Out of service” load evaluator instead of disabling logons. The “Out of service” load evaluator consists of an empty Scheduling rule. The issue with this theory is that if you automate the move of a server into an “Out of service” load evaluator […]

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Scripting updates to the GPT.ini for the Local Group Policy

August 26, 2008

Updated on 27th October 2010. I came across a challenge whilst working on a big XenApp deployment in a Novell environment. I needed to make changes to the Local Group Policy Object on all Terminal / Citrix servers. This was specifically required for implementation of a logoff script, as logoff scripts are not supported via […]

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Print Spooler Self Healing 1.0

August 15, 2008

Despite the new Health Monitoring & Recovery feature of XenApp 4.5, I continue to implementing a “Self Healing” mechanism for the Print Spooler service.

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