Need to restart the Explorer shell Gracefully?
Sometimes you need to restart Explorer to get things straightened out on your desktop. Maybe the Notification Area is losing it or you want to refresh your Quick…
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Jacques Bensimon
AppSense Environment Manager issues
I recently completed an AppSense implementation for a XenApp 6 farm running on VMware vSphere. XenApp 6 servers that were running Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 which were being…
Creating a Windows 2008 R2 Server without that pesky 100 MB System Reserved Partition.
If you are thinking about using Citrix Provisioning Services Server with Windows 2008 R2 server, you are going to want to eliminate the 100 MB System Reserved Partition…
Auto Accept EULAs for SysInternal PSTools.
At IPM, we are big fans of the PSTools for scripts, troubleshooting, and overall use. Jacques Bensimon sent over this handy tip regarding their use. If you’ve accidentally…
Quick Friday XenApp Tip
Restrict each user to a single session: Windows enables this feature by default as a way of minimizing the number of sessions created by disconnecting/reconnecting users. This can…
Citrix XenApp : Unwanted Event Log Entry : DCOM Event ID 10016 Error
Here is a nice write-up from Jacques Bensimon with a follow-up by Aaron Silber on creating a new Citrix console MMC. On the subject of unwanted event log…
XenApp over XenDesktop; Are you getting the correct drive mappings?
In environments where you might be so inclined to run XenApp Published applications over your XenDesktop sessions, the default behavior for the ICA protocol is to map a…
So cool! … [Opened/Closed folder icons in Vista / Win7]
Written by Jacques Bensimon: I was looking at how TweakUI from the XP PowerToys manages to change the Explorer shortcut overlay icon (from the standard arrow to a…
Interesting AMD Processor Issues – EdgeSight and GPOs.
Just cleaning out my inbox and noticed 2 separate threads on AMD Processor issues. From David Paoleschi : FYI – Dual-Core AMD issue to be aware of. This…