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How to hide a local printer on a Terminal / XenApp Server
We had a problem recently with the adobe professional suite installing a local printer on the XenApp server, this was great for users licensed to use Adobe Professional, but for users that weren’t it...
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Disabling Dep with a script
We had this problem recently with our XenApp servers, as part of the latest service pack DEP (or Data Execution Protection) has now been enabled for all applications accross all platforms and this can...
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Restarting a server at a certain time from accross the LAN.
Just a quick entry as i got an email requesting this today, “How can i schedule a restart on a remote server to run out of hours?” This script uses at.exe which is soon replaced by schtasks.exe. This...
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Determining if a number is odd or even using a batch file
Our challenge recently was seperating the reboots of our citrix servers to ensure that half of our farm is always available. This is particularly useful if you are a 24/7 house and need to know exactly...
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Enabling RDP on a server remotely.
There’s very little more annoying in a windows environment than having to go to a console of a server because some idiot has disabled remote administration on a server 2003/2000 server. I was in this...
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Internet explorer 7 wont launch
Had a weird one over the weekend. A colleague of mine accidentally approved Internet Explorer 8 to all servers in our domain via wsus and it left our Citrix servers in a bit of a sad state. We set...
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Enabling disk caches from a script
Just a quick post to share a fundamental performance increase to any citrix server out there running on local disk. If your disk supports caching, enable it now! Get a copy of dskcache.exe from here:...
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Configuring “Language for non-Unicode programs” via the registry in Server 2003.
As a break from server 2008 r2 profiles, I recently had a customer with a character display issue in our xenapp environment. Their local characters were not displaying correctly when run from our...
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Removing Screen Resolution and Personalize shell extensions from a users...
While working in a XenApp 6 proof of concept I came accross this little feature and decided its time to share it! When a user right clicks on the desktop, by default they get access to commands to...
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Silently installing the Citrix Edgesight ActiveX plugin
Just a really quick blog post on how to silently install the reporting agent inside your environment. Log into a server / client without the EdgeSight plugin installed, and browse to the edgesight...
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