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Entries from August 2007

Establish Configuration Logging in Presentation Server 4.5

August 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Record and report all Presentation Server configuration changes. Track changes made to the Presentation Server farm, by whom and at what time to simplify and accelerate troubleshooting. Configuration Logging is invaluable for auditing and ensuring accountability when multiple administrators are maintaining Presentation Server.
A very nice how-to article provided at alsolorzano.com

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Tags: Citrix

Microsoft Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA)

August 30th, 2007 · No Comments

The GPDBPA tool is a stand-alone program that an administrator can run
from a Windows Server 2003-based system or from a Windows XP-based
system. You can use the tool to do the following:


Perform
a proactive health check on the Group Policy environment to detect
common configuration errors that frequently generate support incidents.


Collect diagnostic information and initial data from an […]

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Tags: Active Directory · Windows

To Add or Remove Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 Components

August 28th, 2007 · No Comments

From the Start button, select -> Settings -> Control Panel
Select the -> Add or Remove Programs applet
Fromthe list of Currently install programs: click once on Citrix Presentation Server For Windows and click the -> Change button.

Make the changes you need.

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Tags: Citrix

FireFox + ScribeFire Add-on = Killer Off-line Blog Editing

August 27th, 2007 · No Comments

For simple off-line blog editing, from either a Mac or Windows platform, I really like the simplicity and efficiency of the ScribeFire add-on for the FireFox browser. I’ve tried Microsoft’s Live Writer beta on Windows and Ecto on the Macintosh.

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Tags: Weekend Warrior

Completed Blog Move To A Small Orange Hosting

August 27th, 2007 · No Comments

A very clean export from Wordpress.com and import to wordpress 2.2.2 blog hosted on A Small Orange.

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Tags: Weekend Warrior

What Microsoft Uses For Vista Anti-Virus

August 26th, 2007 · No Comments

Meaningless technical tidbit, but if Computer Associates (CA) is good enough for Microsoft’s coders, why not the rest of us? Mark Russinovich in a recent blog posting.

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Tags: Weekend Warrior · Windows

iTunes Authorization FAQ

August 25th, 2007 · No Comments

Songs purchased on the iTunes Store can be copied to an unlimited number of computers. However, only five computers at a time can play your iTunes DRM-protected music*.
You can enable a computer to play your purchased music by authorizing it. You can remove a computer from the authorization list by deauthorizing it. Deauthorizing your computer […]

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Tags: Weekend Warrior · Macintosh

Citrix PS 4.5 Enterprise — Error 10001

August 24th, 2007 · No Comments

It turns out my encounter with this error was due to a “bad” install of .NET 2.0. I could not perform a security update of .NET 2.0. I ignored the security update error and proceeded to perform the Citrix PS 4.5 install. Near the end of the Citrix server component installation, the installer began uninstalling […]

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Tags: Terminal Services · Citrix · Windows

Removing .NET Framework With 3rd Party Utility

August 24th, 2007 · No Comments

Windows 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2. When patching the server’s .NET 2.0 for security update – encountered an error message. Rebooted and attempted to patch once again – same error. Tried to uninstall .NET 2.0 from the Add/remove control panel applet. Could not uninstall – another error message.
Found this link (read Daniel’s reply) and then downloaded […]

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Tags: Terminal Services · Windows

Obtaining Previous Versions Of Acrobat Reader

August 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

Looking for older versions of the free Acrobat Reader (7.x and 8.0)? Begin here and walk the directory tree to find the version you want:
ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/win/8.x/8.0/enu

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Tags: Terminal Services · Windows