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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SMB Tuning

May 15, 2008

 Here are 3 good articles written by Michel Roth. Fileserving in Terminal Server Environments (Part 1) Fileserving in Terminal Server Environments (Part 2) Lanmanserver and Lanmanworkstation Tuning So how do you know if you have a problem? Well on the Terminal/Citrix servers you need to monitor the outstanding Redirector/Current Commands queue. The goal of a Terminal/Citrix […]

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Tuning and Tweaking Tips for Terminal/Citrix Server Environments

May 15, 2008

This is the essentially an index to some blogs and articles for tuning and tweaking Terminal / Citrix Server environments. I am doing this for a number of reasons…

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Processor Scheduling

May 13, 2008

Multi-tasking Operating Systems just give the illusion that they’re doing things in parallel. In reality, the CPUs rapidly skip from task to task using various algorithms and heuristics, making one think the processes truly are running simultaneously. The choice of scheduling algorithm can be immensely important.

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Time Management 101 – Voice Recognition Software

May 13, 2008

Back in 2007 I completed a 1 day Time Management course at the Australian Institute of Management (AIM). I took away a few valuable lessons from this course:

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