64 bit Musings; aka Writing scripts in a 64 bit Windows Environment.
I’m sure most of us will or have been installing 64 bit operating systems more and more so when I saw this note from my colleague Jacques Bensimon…
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Windows 2008
Installing vCenter 4.1 in a Windows 2000 Domain
I finally found some time to begin installing vCenter 4.1 into my new ESXi lab and ran into an error I thought I would share. The error below…
Quick Tip : Windows Uptime
Here is a quick tip from Moshe Silber for Windows 7/2008 machines. You know sometimes you’re trying to find the uptime of a Windows machine and it’s a…
Shadowing in XenApp 6? Not if you have Multi-Monitors.
While working with the newest versions of Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7, I am beginning to notice more and more compatibility issues with Multi-Monitors and various Citrix…
VMware SRM: VMs recover with Offline RMD Volumes.
Jeff Miller sent over this handy write up involving VMware’s Site Recovery Manager and Windows 2008 R2. Windows Server 2008 (enterprise and datacenter) has introduced a new default…
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…
Provisioning Windows 2008 R2 Servers with Citrix PVS
Damn you System Reserved Partition! So you have built out a new Citrix XenApp Server complete with application installations on Windows 2008 R2 Server and are now ready…
Windows 2008 SysPrep Error [Applying System Settings]
You kick off the clone, apply the customization file (leveraging vCenter’s excellent SysPrep integration), wait a couple of minutes and pop into the console expecting to begin application…
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…