Tag: Tip

Throw-Back Thursday Post –Need to restart Explorer shell Gracefully?

Throw-Back Thursday Post –Need to restart 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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

Preventing a hung XD session from breaking Storefront DDC Load balancing

Preventing a hung XD session from breaking Storefront DDC Load balancing

Chris Hahn sent over an incident that happened at a client recently. Using findings from XenDesktop Scout and Storefront Event logs,  Chris was able to ... Read More

Quick Tip on Adding Roles and Features to Windows Server 2012 (and Windows 8?)

Quick Tip on Adding Roles and Features to Windows Server 2012 (and Windows 8?)

Unlike Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, which pre-stage all available roles and features during setup for easy addition at any later time, Windows ... Read More

No video or audio with some media files on XenApp 6.5

No video or audio with some media files on XenApp 6.5

If H.264-encoded video (e.g. security camera recordings) or AAC-encoded audio (frequently found in MPEG4/MP4 videos) don’t play right (no video or no audio) on Windows ... Read More