Personal IT Experiences

Large variety of SysAdmin tools. Various types and sizes from tools for web interface to troubleshooting hardware on Mac or Windows systems.
tlbox - System Administration Tools

[Read more →]

TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting your Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
TestDisk can

Fix [...]

[Read more →]

The article looks at how to reset a Wyse terminal to factory defaults. There have been many different types of hardware platforms that Wyse have produced over the years ranging from generic x86 platforms to Wyse proprietary designs. This range of designs has also seen a number of different tools to manage them, any administrator [...]

[Read more →]

A source for tools, scripts, vbscripts, etc. that may make your life as a Citrix / Terminal Server administrator a little easier
CitrixTools.com 

[Read more →]

What are the problems Apple is trying to solve with their web browser on a Windows platform?
After installing the browser on a modest Windows XP SP2 workstation, I think I like this browser. The fastest browser? Faster than Firefox 2.0.0.4? Seat of the pants “feel” between the two browsers, Firefox seems faster.
Nothing here in Safari [...]

[Read more →]

Open a command window and type:
change user /INSTALL <Enter>
If the message that returns is “INSTALL mode does not apply to a Terminal server configured for remote administration”, the application version of terminal services is not installed on the server.

[Read more →]

This is a link to a PowerPoint presentation that gives what I thought was a clear explanation of the various kinds of hardware RAID.
Thank you sqlserverfaq.com

[Read more →]

Ports 3268 (TCP/UDP) and 3269 (TCP/UDP) – Citrix PS 4 farm servers communicating with Active Directory domain controllers – AD Global Catalog.
Port 135 (TCP/UDP) – Citrix PS 4 farm servers communicating with the Microsoft Windows 2003 Terminal Server licensing server.
Port 27000 (TCP) + Random Port number – Citrix PS 4 servers communicating with Citrix License [...]

[Read more →]

I’m building new Citrix PS 4.5 servers that will serve a Windows 2003 desktop. I want to prevent the “auto-install” of Internet Explorer 7.x during Windows Updates on the new servers.
Registry hack or GPO options can prevent this. I’m opting for the registry hack at this time.
How to block IE 7 from installing on your [...]

[Read more →]