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XenApp, provisioned servers and daylight saving time
If you’re using Citrix Provisioning Services to deploy your XenApp session-host servers, you may run into a problem that didn’t let me sleep last night… After the farm’s nightly reboot, users were no longer
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VMWare, how to enable copy&paste from console
Starting from VSphere 4.1, the copy&paste options in virtual machines’ consoles are disabled by default. You can enable the clipboard: for a single virtual machine; for all the VM running on a given ESXi host. Single VM
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How to publish a Thinapp to a group of users
Sometimes you may need to publish a Thinapped application to a specific group of users. If you use Thinapp with VMWare View, from the latter’s GUI you can assign your Thinapp to a pool or a desktop, not to users or
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Windows: what an account is locked by?
One of the most frustrating activities a Windows admin has to perform is understanding why an Active Directory account keeps locking: here’s a quick way to find out
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Eagle – Put components on the bottom layer
Eagle, by default, puts all the components on the PCB’s top layer, usually displayed with red color: Choose the Mirror tool: and click on your component: Eagle will move it on the bottom layer, displayed with the blu color
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Windows 2008 CA: Error 401 – Access is denied
Windows Server’s Certification Authority offers a web interface to request certificates, available at the following URL: https://nomeserver/CertSrv. When I tried to connect to an Enterprise CA installed on a Windows 2008 server, I got this error message: 401 –
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Change DNS entry with Powershell
Today I needed to change – using a script – a type A entry in my DNS. Using WMI, you can get MicrosoftDNS_AType class that represents an A record saved in a Microsoft DNS server. The
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Exchange 2003: how to log IMAP sessions
Today, I needed to record IMAP sessions on my Microsoft Exchange 2003 server to debug a client. You can enable session logging with the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\IMAP4Svc\Parameters Two values control logging behavior: IMAP4 Protocol Log
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Eagle – Pins with the same name
When you create a new device, sometimes you need to give the same name to two or more pins (in the following example, an Arduino Pro Mini has two reset pins, RST). If you
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VMWare View, how to count active sessions
Today I needed to track the number of active sessions of a given virtual desktop pool in my VMWare View infrastructure. VMWare offers some cmdlets to Powershell integration; you can find them on the server where the Connection Server is
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