For reference I would like to point out an recent article from the MS Performance Team.

This one can be quite interesting if you troubleshoot print spooler problems in your environment. Fortunately these kind of problems are not happening that often nowadays, but often enough to keep it in mind:

Microsoft Fixit for Printing @ Ask the Performance Team

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Yesterday I stumbled over the following website while I was searching for Powershell WMI Eventing.

You can find all sessions from their event in January as video to see them online and for free. I found them quite useful (haven’t seem them all yet).

Here is a link listing all available sessions:
NIC 2012 Program

If you are interested in WMI Events have a look to these sessions:
Thomas Lee: An introduction to WMI And PowerShell
Thomas Lee: WMI Eventing with PowerShell

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Getting Rid Of DigiNotar’s Root CA

September 7, 2011

Today I just want to share an easy way (which I actually most liked) on how to delete DigiNotar’s Root certificates from your Windows “Trusted Root Certification Authorities” certificate store: certutil -delstore authroot “c0 60 ed 44 cb d8 81 bd 0e f8 6c 0b a2 87 dd cf 81 67 47 8c” certutil -delstore authroot “43 [...]

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How to solve conflicting PDF viewer with Internet Explorer

June 18, 2011

As you might heard or experienced before, it is sometimes annoying to have the Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat installed on a terminal server at the same time. In this case you have to decide which program is responsible to be used as the default PDF viewer. While this question can be managed easily through [...]

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Bluescreens with McAfee when running Windows 2008, VSE 8.7i with Patch 4, and terminal services

January 11, 2011

Since yesterday I noticed that there is an existing problem when you run a terminal server farm within the following environment. Windows 2008 Multi-Language Support Enabled McAfee VSE 8.7 McAfee Patch Level 4 Terminal Services installed.

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How to manage your XenApp 6 published applications automatically using scripts

November 29, 2010

In this article I am going through my experience with Citrix XenApp 6 Published Application management using PowerShell scripts. First off all I need to admit that I am very excited about the new scripting interface provided by XenApp 6. With just a few commands you really can create something powerful. Compared to the old [...]

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How to use usrlogon.cmd on a 64-Bit System as Logonscript

November 24, 2010

Today I faced a funny problem while implementing my logonscript for the terminal server. Normally I replace the default usrlogon.cmd script which resides in C:\Windows\System32 What I needed to realize soon is that citrix still uses 32-Bit programs in the background. One example I had to learn the hard way is that the Citrix provided [...]

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XenApp 5 to XenApp 6: Preparing for Windows 2008 R2

November 10, 2010

Today I had a look on how to prepare my environment for Windows 2008 R2. It seems there are some changes required to adopt my current unattended installation. The following lines represents my first analyze I did on my existing packages. My starting point is my current full automated server installation based on Windows 2008 [...]

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Annoying shortcuts in Microsoft Office 2010

October 13, 2010

If you install Microsoft you may recognize that the start menu does not contain the shortcuts you maybe expected. As you can see target is empty.

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A small list of things to know when you are new to 64-Bit Windows 2008 R2

October 11, 2010

Below you find a small compilation of things you should know when you work with 64-Bit the first time. Having this in mind can help you fighting against applications phenomena.

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