New IPM Utility – UnHideICA
Jacques Bensimon has been extremely busy coding thanks in part to the Polar Vortex dropping subzero weather onto the North East. Hooray for us! :) Here’s his latest…
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“Short changed” by Citrix Provisioning Services!
By Jacques Bensimon. A couple of years ago, a client showed me a freshly P2V’ed Windows image on which Microsoft Office programs were no longer functioning correctly (as…
Updated TSFlag / TSFlag-x64 (v1.1)
You may remember Jacques Bensimon introducing us to TSFlag in this post. He has a new version available here. As long as TSFlag was already parsing executable headers,…
Surviving Windows 8 annoyances with HiDrop
Post by Jacques Bensimon: Some Windows 8.x annoyances you may be up against, with solutions. (1) By default, Windows 8 administrative shares (C$, Admin$, etc.) cannot be accessed…
Two surprising Windows “bugs”
Follow Jacques Bensimon at @JacqBens. On two recent occasions, I came across a Windows bug (or at the very least “unexpected and surprising behavior”) in the basic behavior…
Tips for avoiding Citrix Printer Spooler issues
By Jacques Bensimon The most important rule I can suggest is that, when adding a printer driver to a print server, use to the extent possible a native…
Hold your horses, Explorer!
By Jacques Bensimon - We’re all familiar in our Remote Desktop Services and XenApp builds with the necessity of using the “Run logon scripts synchronously” policy to ensure…
Windows Update error 0x80243004
By Jacques Bensimon - Got this error today trying to perform a Windows Update run on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine. All the updates were downloaded successfully,…
The Bensimon Review: Classic Shell on Windows 8
Here’s a review of the Classic Shell by Jacques Bensimon. Finally got around to testing Classic Shell on Windows 8 – I delayed it for a while to…