HTTP Default Icon issue

May 12, 2009

Sometimes you may find that the HTTP URL shortcut icon is “broken”; referencing %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll,0 instead of %SystemRoot%\system32\url.dll,0. This is due to a bug that does not consistently set the default type and data for the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\HTTP\DefaultIcon value. When the icons are not displaying correctly, it will have a default value of type REG_SZ with Data […]

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I will use Google before asking dumb questions.

May 10, 2009

I thought this was quite funny and couldn’t resist referencing it 🙂

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Deployment Script for the Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy Tools

May 10, 2009

A good friend of mine, Warren Simondson from Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy, writes some awesome tools. There are a particular set I use for all Terminal/Citrix Server deployments I refer to as “User Self-Help Tools”. The below script is what I use to deploy them. Simply add the tools you wish to deploy to an array. […]

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Using a Group Policy WMI filter to test for a registry value

May 10, 2009

I wanted a clean and simple way to prevent group policies applying during an automated build process. This is because it can potentially cause some of the components of the build process to fail. One of the last tasks to run on all servers built using my unattended build method will stamp the registry with […]

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Automate the population of the user’s MS Office Credentials

May 10, 2009

This script will add the user’s correct Username and UserInitials to the MS Office registry key to prevent the first time prompt when a user runs up a program in the Office suite. It has been specifically designed to populate the values for multiple versions of Office as per the arrVersions array. Please review the […]

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Enable Clock on Task Bar for Windows XP and 2003

May 10, 2009

Microsoft made it a real challenge to automate the enabling of the Clock on the taskbar. Some clever people worked out how this can be achieved several years ago by manipulating certain bits of the Settings binary value under the “Stuckrects2” registry key. However, it would only take effect on the 2nd logon, because the […]

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Mastering the default Explorer views for Windows XP and 2003

May 9, 2009

I finally mastered the Windows Explorer views under Windows XP and 2003! The following script is fully documented. Enjoy!

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A long time between posts

April 27, 2009

Wow…the last 4 months have flown by…been so busy at work and home. My New Years resolution was to start blogging every day, but that hasn’t exactly happened! Been working on multiple customer engagements, which has been challenging and absorbed a lot of my time and focus. Have taken a lot of work off the […]

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HTTP to HTTPS Redirection for Citrix Web Interface

December 26, 2008

I wrote this HTTP to HTTPS redirection script for a customer so that they were able to leave TCP port 80 open through their firewall to make the transition over to using the Citrix Secure Gateway (CSG) solution a little less confusing for their users. There were a couple fo goals I wanted to achieve […]

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Citrix Secure Gateway (CSG) 3.1 Deployment Issue

December 19, 2008

Something I found after installing Citrix Secure Gateway (CSG) 3.1 on a server running Web Interface (WI) 5.0.1. It removed permissions from the “%ProgramFiles%\Citrix\Web Interface\5.0.1\Clients” folder and instructed it to inherrit from its parent. Therefore, only the Administrators local group had full control. This was causing problems for client updates and downloads via the CSG […]

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