Entries by Hendricus Kramer

E2EVC 2014 Barcelona – day 2

In the next couple days i will share what happens at the E2E virtualization conference in Barcelona. This blog is about day 2 of the E2EVC. The day started with a presentation about the HP Moonshot presented by Carl Webster (@carlwebster) The HP moonshot is new technology from HP and it’s like having about 180 physical client […]

E2EVC 2014 Barcelona – day 1

In the next couple days i will share what happens at the E2E virtualization conference in Barcelona. This blog is about day 1 of the E2EVC. The first day of E2EVC starts with some announcements. One of the great announcements was that Carl Webster is now an official E2EVC grandfather. Hendricus KramerWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but […]

E2EVC 2014 Barcelona – day 0 – Citrix Masterclasses

In the next couple days i will share what happens at the E2E virtualization conference in Barcelona. This blog is about day 0 of the E2EVC where we got some cool Citrix masterclasses. The first masterclass of the day was presented by Karen Sciberras (@XMtipster) about XenMobile 9.0 She started with information about the new features within this new version. You […]

Office Communicator removes root ssl certificates

Within some environments and especially an RDS or Citrix based SBC environment, there can be a problem with the root SSL certificates when using Office Communicator 2007. In my case: The first user on serverA who starts the Office Communicator won’t have any problems, because it can use the imported root SSL certificate to secure […]

Powershell: Backup Lync 2013 configuration

One of the most important things to do when using Lync 2013 is to backup the Lync 2013 topology and configuration. With these backup files and your ssl certificates you can restore your basic Lync environment (without the data). With this powershell script you can easily backup these configuration files and as a bonus you can […]

Powershell: Enable multiple Lync 2013 users

When you have a large Lync 2013 environment with several OU’s, you want to “Lync enable” users automatically, and maybe you require a specific user policy for those users. (As you can see i used a VDI policy in my example) With this powershell script you can add as many OU’s as you like as long as […]

Book review: Mastering Puppet

Mastering Puppet by Thomas Uphill When you’re considered to be an experienced Puppet user or you just started using Puppet, this book will help you getting a good Puppet implementation. Mastering Puppet is not only about Puppet… To get an enterprise ready Puppet environment, you will be guided through the configuration of all needed linux components. This results in […]

Windows 8.1: Disable help tips (orange arrows)

It’s pretty annoying if you have a fresh Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 installation installed on your computer, and you get those orange help tip arrows on the side of your screen and you can’t get rid of them. Microsoft has enabled the tablet help tips by default, and you simply can’t remove them using […]

Visual Basic: Check if a process is running in the user session

This week a customer had some problems with an application. The application was partly web based, uses an Office plugin and integration with the Windows Explorer. Normally I would say that it shouldn’t be a problem. But the nasty thing about this application was that the application was not supported within a multiuser environment. The application checks […]