AppDNA 6.3 Now Available

June 27, 2013

Citrix just shipped another small AppDNA release today. Version 6.3 is now available for download, and the documentation is available on eDocs. The key new product features are:

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Enabling the Active Directory JET Database Performance Monitor Counters

June 20, 2013

When monitoring the performance of Domain Controllers there are certain counters over and above the default ones that will provide you with advanced information to ensure that they are sized and performing correctly. These are the JET Database Performance Counters.

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AppDNA Tech Tip – Importing apps when there is no installer

June 19, 2013

Citrix has recently introduced me to an advanced component of AppDNA that allows the import of apps when a real installer is unavailable. This component is called the AppDNA MSI Generator. The MSI Generator should only be used in the follow two scenarios: Applications that are known to be just flat files/folders with no real […]

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AppDNA is now included with XenDesktop 7 Platinum, or is it just a tease?

June 19, 2013

I was excited by the recent announcement during the Citrix Synergy 2013 keynote that an AppDNA license will be included with the upcoming release of XenDesktop 7 Platinum edition. Yes! Now one of my favourite tools, so needed in this space, gets to shine alongside the flagship products. This sparked so much excitement and conversation […]

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Script to set the Adobe Print As Image option

September 12, 2012

Having deployed a new printing solution in a large University environment, we were faced with all sorts of printing errors, slow printing, and out of memory errors on the printers themselves; specifically when printing PDFs. This is related to how the PDFs are processed, which becomes a challenge in a higher education environment where the […]

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PaperCut Client Launch or Logon Script for Windows

September 11, 2012

Having deployed PaperCut print management software in a large University environment, we were faced with the challenge of how to ensure that the client (pc-client-local-cache.exe) launched successfully and consistently at every logon to meet all the use cases. We also had to consider how we were going to specify the different types of command line parameters. […]

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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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