Two Way Group Policy Locator Tool
This article and the tool it introduces will likely be of interest only to Windows system administrators, IT security practitioners, and other members of the priesthood involved in…
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Domain Controller in Safe mode? Marcos brings the Vet office back online.
Here is a guest post from my friend Marcos Velez. He worked out a pretty perplexing issue involving a nonresponsive Domain Controller at his sister’s veterinary office. Follow…
Centralized policy definitions – Bad idea! … with a remedy.
On several occasion in the past few years (and twice in the past month, probably the result of interest in piloting Windows 10 and/or Office 2016), I noticed…
VMware Site Recovery Manager – DNS Stalls for 20 minutes.
Chris Monfet sent over a handy setting for those of us leveraging VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to protect our Active Directory infrastructures. I was running a bubble…
TS/RDS User Home Directory policy Explained
Here is a nice write up on Setting Home Directories via group policy by Jacques Bensimon. Since I’ve had to deal with this before, I thought I’d review…
How to add a Shortcut for all users in a VDI environment via Group Policy Preferences
Jeff Miller was using VMware View 5 with Wyse p20’s and needed the ability for users to disconnect from their desktop rather than just locking their machine and…
Don’t put those DCs on your Shared Storage! (If you are running Hyper-V)
I had a client call me in a complete panic recently with their entire environment completely down. It was a real world example of a lesson learned the…
XenDesktop Agent not registered in Citrix Delivery Services Console
There are lots of reasons that a XenDesktop desktop machine would appear as Not Registered in the Citrix Delivery Services Console. This particular Virtual Machine was being provisioned…
Missing Active Directory option in Citrix Provisioning Services
I ran across a pretty puzzling situation earlier last week that I thought I would post about. I was implementing a fairly straightforward XenDesktop POC and had set…