[Aside] ADFS and Windows Proxy
Quick shout out to this blog post on where to set the Internet Proxy for ADFS. Basically, you gotta set it via netsh winhttp proxy.
View ArticleSet 7-Zip as the default for zip files
Had to do this for my XenApp install (7-Zip on a Server 2012R2). Thanks to this post which is in turn based on this post. Trick is to put the following into a registry file and double click/ import it...
View ArticleAdding multiple languages via Registry
I wanted to have multiple languages/ keyboard layouts in my XenApp environment. Thought I’d push it out via a registry key change. I forget the blog post I had found the details from but this one has...
View ArticleXenApp and Run/ RunOnce keys
Reminder to myself: the Run and RunOnce entries in HKLM and HKCU are not processed if an application is launched via XenApp. That’s because these keys are processed by explorer.exe and that doesn’t run...
View Article[Aside] How to roam AppData\Local too
Came across this video from James Rankin. Apart from being an excellent video, it has one important thing which I felt I must note down here as a reference to myself. I always thought AppData\Local and...
View ArticleAdding Registry keys to NTUSER.DAT for multiple users
A while ago I had pointed to a blog post I found wherein the author wrote a script to push registry keys to the NTUSER.DAT profile file of a large number of users. I wanted to try something similar in...
View ArticleEndless Night
Just finished listening to Agatha Christie’s “Endless Night”. It was an amazing listen. Very unlike in tone and story to Dame Christie’s usual detective stories (but with a plot twist she has used in...
View Article[Aside] XenApp beta testing with Application Groups
Application Groups is a new feature introduced in XenApp and XenDesktop 7.9 (speaking of which: XenApp and XenDesktop are the same thing just that different functionality is exposed based on the...
View ArticleDeleting credentials from Credential Manager remotely
The title is a bit misleading, but whatever. I wanted to delete the credentials in Windows Credential Manager on a remote machine. I didn’t want to delete any particular credential – what I suggest...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to find Computer objects in AD that have inheritance disabled
I needed to find the computer objects in an AD OU that had inheritance disabled. Did the following: Get-ADComputer -SearchBase "OU=something,DC=myDomain,DC=com" -Filter * | ?{...
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Launching XenApp sessions in the receiver time zone
Gotta do two things for this to happen. 1. In the Delivery Controller policies enable this setting – 2. In the GPOs on the XenApp servers allow time zone redirection –
View ArticleAsus RT-AC68U router, firmware, etc.
Bought an Asus RT-AC68U router today. I didn’t like my existing D-Link much and a colleague bought the Asus and was all praises so I thought why not try that. Was a bit put off that many of the...
View Article[Aside] Web Servers
I came across these recently and wanted to put them here as a bookmark to myself. h5ai – A modern file browsing UI for web server. Looks amazing! HFS – HTTP File Server. It’s a web server and also a...
View ArticleHow to remove complex scripts from Word DOCX documents
Recently came across a Word document where some parts of the document seemed to ignore the general rules. The document was in English, and its language was set to English (U.S.) but certain parts were...
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HPE Synergy and eFuse Reset
In the HPE BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures one can do something called an eFuse reset to power cycle any the server blades. I have blogged about it previously here. Now we are on the HPE Synergy 12000...
View Article[Aside] ESXi and NTP
Two posts as a reference to myself – PowerCLI – Check all VMHosts’ time – read down the post to get a faster way of getting time Verifying NTP on ESXi
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[Aside] ESXi and NTP (more)
VMware VMs tend to correct the OS time by syncing with the host. You can disable this but it still syncs during vMotion and some other tasks. This was causing trouble with our Exchange environment as...
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Schedule Machine Catalog updates with MCS
I wasn’t aware of this until yesterday when I took a leap of faith and tried it out. I had to update my Machine Catalog with a new image but in the last step of the update my two options are to either...
View ArticleAbsentia
I binge watched “Absentia” today and it was amazing. I came across it by chance on Prime Video and since it has Stana Katvic (“Kate” from the “Castle” TV show) I decided to give it a try. And before I...
View ArticleGodless poem – To Love What Death Can Touch
Just finished watching “Godless”. I took my time with this show coz even though I liked it I don’t think this is something I could binge watch. Funny though, that’s something I had wondered to myself –...
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