I’m not a massive fan of Apple products, but I do like the iPhone 4S and the fact that things normally work as expected, i.e. it does what it says on the tin and it’s really simple to use. iOS5 was good example of the operating system as it should be for most applications and…
Summary: I’m working on an issue with Citrix XenApp 6.5 on Windows 2008 R2 SP1 where sessions remain after a user logs out. We have a number of different environments all running the same version of Citrix and OS. The troubleshooting begins! Please see my earlier post, this issue remains, “Down Session and Multiple Instances”…
If your in my position and you need a clean partition to reinstall Windows 2008 or use it for another OS then here are the steps. WARNING: All data will be lost, always take a backup 🙂 It’s assumed you can still get to the startup menu, if this is not the case then boot…
Sorry to all the people who visit this sites that it hasn’t been updated for a while, I’ve been working on many projects with very tight deadlines, hence I haven’t had time to write here. I’ve closed the comments on this site now since I can’t be bothered with the spam. Issue: Today I’m working…
OS: Windows 2003 x86 SP2 Services: Terminal Services, Citrix Background: I’ve seen a number of hosts with the error “Windows cannot determine the user or computer name. (The specified user does not exist. ). Group Policy processing aborted.) After trying rejoining the domain and checking OU etc, I called Microsoft. The issue turned out to…
Today I’m building a new Windows 2008 R2 x64 server, fresh from an ISO imagine. After installing Windows updates, the status of Roles and Features in Server manager is unavailable. Its not possible to add or remove roles or features. The Error:
Today I am faced with a chanellege to migrate all the schedules tasks from one server 2003 to a new windows 2008R2 server. Prevouisly you just needed to copy the .job files from C:\windows\tasks to the new XP/2003 computer, but this doesn’t work for Windows 2008. So here’s a work around. Copy two files from your…
I’m returning to a project I haven’t touch for a couple of months, purely down to the fact I have another 6 projects on the go. Anyway I’m testing RSA over Citrix and need a test Citrix server and there’s no point using a license for a non production server which will be scraped after…
Today Issue: We have a Citrix display issue with XenApp 4.5 for Windows 2003 when launching an application on 3 screens at 1280 x1024. The message displays: The following requested video mode was not available 3840 x 1024 x 16 BBP. Video mode restricted by system administrator. RESOLUTION: If…