Archive for the ‘terminal services’ Category
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Most customers have delayed the upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8 as long as possible. The reason is memory / CPU usage especially on Terminal Servers, but this applies to personal computers and VDI as well. Some of the biggest web pages in Norway have been promoting upgrades similar ...
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
I have been working on many Citrix / SAP implementation, but never printing via Citrix Universal Printer (CUP). If you use SAPLPD because your environment is not at the necessary patch level to use the recommended control printing the printer name has a limitation of 40 characters.
This becomes a problem ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
The Technology Preview of Citrix XenApp for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is now available for download.
New features :
More users, faster logons - Get up to 20% more users per server with XenApp on the R2 platform and faster logons with new Profile management streaming technology that improves user profile ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Way back we converted old computers to Thin Client PCs using ICA DOS. We created this funny Jackass style video for promotion and I thought it would be fun sharing it.
For the new school way of converting take a look at this post : Turn old PC into Thin Client ...
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
I am working on a new Citrix XenDesktop Proof of Concept (POC) hosted on VMware ESX. During the setup I discovered some error messages I would like to share with you.
Error : "The hosting infrastructure could not be reached at the specified address"
Solution :
Create a host file entry that resolves ...
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Friday, July 17th, 2009
Adobe recently released the Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1.2 Update. Finally it fixes the problems people are experiencing with Roaming of Application Data on Terminal Servers.
Download Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1 English / UK and extract the files with this command : C:\AdbeRdr910_en_US_Std.exe -nos_ne
All my scripts are based on the ScriptFrameWork developed ...
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Sunday, July 12th, 2009
After reading a lot of good feedback's in the brand new Gadget Magazine www.gdgt.com I decided to try it out. After crawling the web up and down I finally found a blog post who had aggregated all of the guides & tips on different forum's into one complete guide.
I have ...
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
I tried to capture a video with today in my lab, but the GoView didn't work through Proxy. As you now Twitter is a powerful tools, and I quickly got 4 responses on Screen Capture software, thanks to timarenz, nboevink, michael_keen & virtualprouk. I tried the uTIPu but this program ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
All credits go to Pierre Marmignon for his excellent post this weekend listing up all the Terminal Server & XenApp Tuning Tips. I have created a Group Policy based on these tips with OS W2K3/W2K8 and XenApp 4.x/5.x. The following is included in the policy :
Operations System Tuning & XenApp ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
After scripting the installation of Internet Explorer 8 I decided to do a quick & dirty test on my W2K3 SP2 machine running on my XenServer 5 Lab. There is no Optimization for Citrix XenApp turned on cause this is my domain controller.
So as a "normal" user I opened one ...
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