How to install the VMware Data Recovery Appliance (vDR)
Once again John Simon has sent me some very thorough documentation from our recent engagement with VMware’s Data Recovery Appliance. If you have seen some of John’s earlier…
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How to migrate an ESX 3.5 v4 VM to vSphere v7 VM
Now that VMware has released their first set of patches for vSphere, let the mass migrations begin! :) John Simon sent me over his EXTENSIVE notes from our…
Off Topic : Provisioning a Multi Purpose RSA Soft Token for the Blackberry and iPhone.
Written by Marcos Velez: RSA SecurID is a great two-factor authentication solution currently in use by many companies. In fact, most of the companies I work with nowadays…
Quick Look : View Manager 3.1 Installation
Just some quick screenshots of the installation. Nothing too exciting. :) VMware View Connection Server 3.1 The Connection server will act as the broker between client requests and…
No Windows 7 support for VMware View yet. :(
Either as a Client or a Source. I found a workaround for running a Windows 7 Desktop VM here though : https://blog.virtualarchitect.nl/2009/03/how-to-add-windows-7-to-vmware-view/ It involves switching the VM type…
How to manually remove duplicate Citrix servers from the CMC using DSCHECK.
Sometimes continually moving XenApp servers from folder to folder or in and out of a farm, you can end up with the server name becoming duplicated in the…
How to Kill a running process across a WHOLE Citrix Farm
Don’t know about you, but if you are like me then you would have come across the situation where you need to whack a process that is running…
How to create a Custom ICA connection to a XenApp Server Console 0
Similar to an RDP connection with the /console switch enabled, you can create an ICA connection to a server console through the ICA Client. 1) Create a new…
Quick Citrix XenApp Tip : Logons and Logoff messages in the EventLog.
Here is a nice tip provided by Frederic Serriere (Escalation Engineer, Citrix) on Doctor-Citrix.com : To Log ICA Logons and Logoffs in the Server's EventLog, add the following…