Microsoft have released several patches which could liven up your work environment. See the following links for details and see if this could affect you: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2834535/security/four-more-botched-black-tuesday-patches-kb-3000061-kb-2984972-kb-2949927-and-kb-2995388.html
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Find out who is using your XenApp Published Applications
August 31, 2014 
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Here is a quick bit of PowerShell code to list out users logged into a specific application of your choice. This works with XenApp 6.0, but would also work with newer versions : Add-PSSnapin citrix* Get-XASession -BrowserName ‘Application Name’ | Select AccountName, ServerName This will list out Active and Disconnected sessions Alternatively, here is a piece […]
Continue readingBook Review: Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal
April 29, 2014 0 Comments
I was given the chance to review a book by a member on LinkedIn about Citrix Cloud Computing and a couple of the products that the have created to put this in place. Click here for a link to the book: Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal About the book The book is well written so […]
Continue readingXenApp WMI entries no longer reporting in monitoring software
July 1, 2013 0 Comments
We found that Solawinds was reporting that some WMI monitoring was not working correctly on out XenApp 6.0 Windows 2008 R2 SP1 servers. We used some WMI tools to check to see if the WMI entries existed or if there were permission issues. On investigation it was found that the entries did not exist. After […]
Continue readingQuerying Solarwinds for Device Added Dates
May 24, 2012 0 Comments
We had the need to create a report that showed us which Windows devices were added into Solarwinds within the last 7 days. With a little poking around and chatting to someone that knows SQL this is what we came up with: select n.caption as ‘Node Name’ , Min(datetime) as ‘Date Added’, n.vendor from responsetime […]
Continue readingTime Running Slow on Virtual Servers
May 23, 2012 0 Comments
To some this may be a no brainer, and in fairness we found the cause and fixed it 5 minutes, but to some it may be a head scratcher. We have a load of servers all running on Windows 2008 R2 and on ESX Hosts. The time on some servers is running slow by up […]
Continue readingExporting Contacts from a Users Mailbox to a PST file
May 11, 2012 0 Comments
This may be of use to some of you: Prerequisites: A 32-bit Windows machine with Outlook 2003 SP2 or above and with the Exchange Tools installed also An admin account with a Mailbox attached What to do: Open the Powershell Window Run the following commands: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Powershell.Admin Add-MailboxPermission –Identity “Users Full Name” –User UserNameOfAdminAccount –AccessRights Fullaccess […]
Continue readingXenApp 6.0 WMI Queries
March 17, 2012 0 Comments
I use these WMI queries within Solarwinds Monitoring APM applications applied to the relevant servers to report back the results. No doubt other monitoring tools allow WMI queries and so could be used with them as well. There are many possible queries to be written and the list will grow in this post, but these […]
Continue reading Reader X problem – Accept End User License Agreement
March 14, 2012 1 Comment
When opening a .PDF file the following error appears: It turns out that your can not have the combination of letters anywhere in the file name or path to the file: CR N.B. cr will work CR will not. Having hunted around I have found and tested that by using the following key the issue […]
Continue reading Some library features are unavailable due to unsupported library locations
March 9, 2012 2 Comments
Below is a copy of a Documents.library-ms file found in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <libraryDescription xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2009/library“> <name>@shell32.dll,-34575</name> <ownerSID>User-SID-would-display-here</ownerSID> <version>4</version> <isLibraryPinned>true</isLibraryPinned> <iconReference>imageres.dll,-1002</iconReference> <templateInfo> <folderType>{7d49d726-3c21-4f05-99aa-fdc2c9474656}</folderType> </templateInfo> <propertyStore> <property name=”HasModifiedLocations” type=”boolean”><![CDATA[false]]></property> </propertyStore> <searchConnectorDescriptionList> <searchConnectorDescription publisher=”Microsoft” product=”Windows”> <description>@shell32.dll,-34577</description> <isDefaultSaveLocation>true</isDefaultSaveLocation> <simpleLocation> <url>knownfolder:{FDD39AD0-238F-46AF-ADB4-6C85480369C7}</url> </simpleLocation </searchConnectorDescription> </searchConnectorDescriptionList> libraryDescription> Copy the file to your desktop and open it in Notepad. N.B. You can […]
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