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Reduce WINSXS folder size

I hate the C:\Windows\WINSXS folder. The size it takes up is a complete joke even BEFORE apps or windows updates. These are some of the commands that I have found in the past (with varying success) to try and reduce the size of this rediculous folder. It is rare that I have run this on a production environment, but […]

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Appsense Hiving for users Printers but default not saving?

Situation: we had migrated our desktop from Xenapp 5.0 on w2008 sp2 (non r2) to XenApp6.5 2008 R2. This included an upgrade to Appsense 8.3 and introduction of Appsense personalisation. Older applications still left on the old desktop needed the printer settings from the new desktop. We had to set our new Appsense EM to hive the printer settings to the […]

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App-V DB Install Error

Scenario: When installing the APP-V server side components and pointing to the SQL database sometimes we would get the following message. Our user account had full rights to the SQL instance and was a local admin of the APP-V box. Error: The installation program could not connect to the configuration data store. Please see the installation […]

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PDF Converter Script

Screipt provided will change the password associated with the PDF Printer AMYUNI Documet Converter 400. This had to be automated as our PVS environment couldnt be updated everytime we wanted to change the devices password company wide. START SCRIPT—————————————————– Option Explicit ‘ This VB script can be used to configure the installed printer Dim PRINTER_NAME PRINTER_NAME = “PDFPRNxx” Dim […]

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Help Files not working over Network or When under Citrix Published App

We had a stupid applicaiton that published itself from a network share – including the help files. Windows introduced security for this from Internet explorer to block these from running etc to change the security for these help files to be displayed follow this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896054   REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftHTMLHelp1.xItssRestrictions] “MaxAllowedZone”=dword:00000001

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App-V Application refresh failure with same name

Situation: we had recently repackaged a new verson of an applicaiton and though the ucn path had changed, the APP-V name was identical. Error: The Application Virtualization Client cannot use the OSD file specified because the GUID attribute for the CODEBASE element changed (rc 0C403B04-00001004). Solution: under sftcmc.msc the properties of the app showed the OSD file pointing to the previous […]