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Category Archives: XenApp
WAN Emulation for VDI and SBC Testing
29-Nov-09
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 Debian. [...]
Here is my deployment script for Citrix Profile Management 2.x, formerly known as User Profile Manager.Enjoy!
Whenever I implement a Citrix/Terminal Server farm, I always include certain applications and tools that I believe users will get some value from, which may in-turn assist IT Support by lowering the number of helpdesk calls. Who knows???I have blogged about all these tools before…
The unbelievably awesome Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy tools
The Repair Clipboard Chain utility
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The Repair Clipboard Chain utility
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A message box may appear titled “WFCRUN32 ERROR”, with the message being “Failed to set Event Logging.” as per the following screenshot:
HTTP Default Icon issue
12-May-09
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 [...]
Updated on 2nd December 2008…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 specifically interested in [...]
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 [...]
Print Spooler Self Healing 1.0
15-Aug-08
Despite the new Health Monitoring & Recovery feature of XenApp 4.5, I continue to implementing a “Self Healing” mechanism for the Print Spooler service.
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
Citrix Load Evaluators
09-Jul-08
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 [...]