[Aside] Links to DFSR, Profile Data, etc.
Been reading quite a bit about user profiles and stuff lately. I’ve always imagined profiles as this blob of user settings + data under the C:\Users\<username> location. And every time we need to...
View Article[Aside] Using GPP Item-Level targeting to set environment variables based on...
The subject says it all. Wanted to do this, found the following. Excellent! Unrelated, but I was Googling on this and I want to put the links somewhere – A General Approach to Software Packaging –...
View Article[Aside] Configuring Windows Server 2012 R2/ 2016. Start Menu via GPO
Option 1: https://xenappblog.com/2013/customize-windows-2012-start-screen-using-group-policy/ – export the layout, push it out via GPO to all users. Unfortunately, on Server 2012 R2 this means users...
View ArticleBose SoundSport Wireless
I had got myself a pair of Beats Wireless X some weeks back. I am not a Beats fan per se, but I bought these as they come with the W1 chip and I was curious. They were decently priced too. I loved...
View ArticleTIL: Citrix Receiver does not connect to non-HTTPS stores since version 3.1
You can of course configure it to accept HTTP stores: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134341
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Citrix – Cannot connect to the Citrix XenApp server. Network issues are...
Been banging my head on this since yesterday. Initially I tracked it down to the fact that I couldn’t ping my XenApp servers. Dummy error on my part – I had forgotten to set the default gateway in the...
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The Citrix servers do not trust the server. This message was reported from...
If you are able to login to your Citrix Storefront and get a list of application, but when launching something you get an error – And checking the “Citrix Delivery Services” logs on your Storefront...
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Importing Registry keys via GPP. Also, item-level targeting.
I wanted to do two things. 1) Import a bunch of registry keys for all users. And 2) Set some key values differently for users depending on their location. Basically these were registry keys containing...
View Article[Aside] IE11 does silently ignores file server locations for PAC file
I had encountered this the hard way some months ago, but today I was Googling on this to share the same with a colleague. Starting with IE 11 you cannot use file server locations (e.g....
View ArticleWindows Server 2008 and above – low memory
While troubleshooting something I came across this blog today – Detecting Low Virtual Memory Conditions in Windows 2008 and R2. Basically, since Windows 2008 there’s an inbuilt low memory detection...
View ArticleUnable to access some performance counters remotely
Maybe it helps someone else. I had an issue today where the disk related performance counters were working locally but not remotely. Well, to start with they weren’t working locally either but I...
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Various Citrix and Profile and Folder Redirection bits and bobs
I am a bit all over the place as I am trying to do multiple things and discovering so many new things. It’s exciting, but also a bit overwhelming. I know I should note it all down for future reference...
View ArticleRegistry keys for various settings
Continuing in the vein of my previous post where I want to try and apply more settings via registry key changes to the default user profile as opposed to a GPO change, I thought I should have one place...
View ArticleFind all GPOs modified yesterday
Via PowerShell, of course: Get-GPO -All | ?{ ([datetime]::today - ($_.ModificationTime)).Days -le 1 } | ft DisplayName,ModificationTime And to make a report of the settings in these same GPOs: Get-GPO...
View Article[Aside] Group Policy Objects – VDA User Settings
An amazing post from Carl Stalhood (as a reference to myself for later): Group Policy Objects – VDA User Settings
View ArticleTIL: XenApp and Desktops
If you want to publish desktops via XenApps, the users must be in the “Remote Desktop Users” builtin group. This only allows them RDP access via ICA. Once VDA is installed, a new group called “Direct...
View ArticleNotes on Server 2012 DHCP Failover
A bit confused on some terminology regarding Server 2012 DHCP failover in hot standby mode. I don’t think I am alone in this, and have been reading up on the same. Thought I’d put down what I read in a...
View ArticleTIL: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT is not the default user profile
I knew this already but came across again from this script Q&A and thought its worth reminding myself: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT is not the default user profile (i.e. the profile used as the default...
View Article[Aside] Citrix Storefront Sync Problems – Propagate Changes – Server is not...
A quick thank you to this blog post for making my day slightly better today! Stumbled upon this issue and when a quick reboot and a look at the running services didn’t show any obvious errors I was at...
View Article%TEMP% environment variable has a \2 or other number after it
For my XenApp servers I had set the TEMP and TMP environment variables via GPO to be the following: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp. But that seems to be ignored as all my users were getting these...
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