Situation: Windows 2008 SP2 Standards Servers on ESX 4.0 Vm’s. The servers had non persistent disks and every monday revert to their original image. The VM’s were recently changed to have 2 vCPU’s. Problem: Come the Monday morning reset all the servers stopped responding and were hanging at boot up on ‘Applying Computer Settings’ and for user […]
Problem: A test server was locking out any and every AD account that logged onto it when launching an ICA session only. Using RDP the account was fine. Windows 2008 Server Enterprise SP2, XenAPP 5.0 FP3 + R01, running on Vmware VM Server The server was rebuilt 3 times. And then windows and citrix patched […]
Problem: Published RPD Desktop was not copying and pasting, yet a direct RDP to the same server worked. Solution: The citrix session sharing was not working for the published application. The citrix server was launching a fresh session on another server (ICA Desktop > Ica Server > RDP > Desktop) No wonder the Cut and […]
Situation:we had migrate from Windows 2003 DC x32 to Windows 2008 DC x64 for certificate servers.Everything working fine until the last steop of importing the old registry settings. When adding the server role of CA Web Enrollment we received the following error message Error Message: Cannot Install Certificate Authority Web Enrollment Active Directory Certificate Services […]
Problem: Upgrading 32 to 64 bit server on VMWARE ESX 4.x would result in a stop when booting the Windows 2008 x64 CD Error Message: STOP: 0x0000005D (0x000000000FEBBBFF,0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000,0x0000000000000000) Resolution: Obvious one really, change the Architecture to be (64 BIT) for the VMWARE properties of the VM
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Situation:Citrix Support the volume control sync / mute of a Desktop session to also control the HDX media volume playing out on the client. Problem:After upgrading to Citrix Receiver 3.0 this functionality stopped.HDX Flash Content would be streamed to the client side and would play, but if the XenApp session volume was muted – the […]
PROBLEM: After we removed the citrix desktop lockdown, and tried to launch a citrix desktop / application we received. MESSAGE: “Citrix online plug-in Configuration Manager: No value could be found for (ClientHostedApps) that satisfies all lockdown requirements. The lockdown requirements in force may be conflicting”. RESOLUTION: 1. goto HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareCitrixICA ClientEngineLockdown ProfilesAll RegionsLockdownVirtual ChannelControl 2. Delete […]
SituationNumerous roaming profiles without the administrator added for NTFS permissions. Access was denied for copying, moving etc. Native tools for taking ownership of multiple folders and files for end user profiles. Command Taking OwnershipTAKEOWN.exe /F <folderpath> /R /A /D Y /F = path/R=recurvise/A=owner to administrators rather than logged on user/D = default answer to setting list […]
Problem After extracting a number of files from a ZIP file windows kept track of these files as dangerous by means of the files ‘stream’ (ie tracking where the file originated from) Typically to allow these files to execute you need to Right click the file > properties > UNBLOCK “This file came from another computer […]