Problem When configuring a very restricted desktop for 3rd party access we configured the ‘Run Only specified Windows Applications’ Surprisingly very little actually stopped working. However the Windows Aero.theme was no longer being applied: Solution Add the following executables to allow the theme to apply: shell32.dll, dwm.exe, rundll32.exe svchost.exe, regsvr32.exe in the group policy location User […]
Problem: After a recent image update one of our XenApp/Windows servers was booting but hanging at the ‘Applying Microsoft Offline Files Policy’ and taking a long time to ‘finish’ and display the CTRL + ALT + DEL screen. The Windows offline files policy set to disable for all. Solution: This was in fact a red herring, […]
IIS 7.0 logging is NOT enabled by default. You must add this as an additional role service under Health and Diagnostics > HTTP Logging. Default path to logs is: %SystemDrive%inetpublogsLogFiles Error Codes (taken from here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943891) 1xx – Informational These status codes indicate a provisional response. The client should be prepared to receive one or […]
Situation: After a server refresh from Windows 2008 SP1 to Windows 2008 R2 – we were unable to connect to ANY share on a windows 2000 client. Other servers like windows 2003 server could connect fine Our previous SOE desktop running windows 2008 SP2 was also ok. Server 2008 SP2 and Server 2008 R2 server images out […]
Clients – Windows XP Thin Client T5740, Receiver 3.1 Servers – Windows 2008 R2, XenApp 6.5 Problem: When end users were selecting the Start> Windows Security or Start > Arrow > Lock option in the desktop menus there is a 10 – 20 second delay before the menu appears. It also affected volume control speed and even the […]
Iexplore.exe sessions were opening and hanging with the description of the iexplore.exe typically when clicking links in outlook. Add the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWAREWow6432NodeCitrixSFTADisableServerFTA registry key with the following values: Name: DisableServerFTA Type: REG_DWORD Value: 1
Remove right click ‘ Scan With Sophos Anti-virus’ from the Context Menu for Citrix / Terminal Servers for all users. Solution: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*shellexContextMenuHandlersSavShellExt] @=”{A3A1D8A1-006D-4B93-BA27-6F6B4C9C4F1D}”
Problem: When adding or revoking certificates we were getting the following error 0×80094009 – The operation is denied. It can only be performed by a certificate manager that is allowed to manage certificates for the current requester. Even though I was a domain AND enterprise admin!!!???? Panic! Also our CA had been migrated and updated from […]
You cannot edit this as the administrator, (only trustedinstaller is given write access) so you must take ownership of the parent registry key/s first, then assign your accounts rights to write to the key. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesCLSID{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}] @=”Computer” “LocalizedString”=hex(2):25,00,75,00,73,00,65,00,72,00,6e,00,61,00,6d,00,65,00, 25,00,20,00,6f,00,6e,00,20,00,25,00,63,00,6f,00,6d,00,70,00,75,00,74,00,65, 00,72,00,6e,00,61,00,6d,00,65,00,25,00,00,00