Entries by Ingmar Verheij

Stresstest your printer drivers

A few days ago I wrote an article about the issues with printer drivers in a multiuser environment. In this article I advised you to test you’re printer drivers in a acceptance environment, preferably with real users testing. This can be achieved with a LoadTest / StressTest tool like the Denamik LoadGen, which is free […]

Printer drivers in a multiuser environment.

If you’re familiar with the challenges of printer drivers in a multiuser environemnt you can skip the first part of this post. The challenge of printer drivers in a multiuser environment The first terminal server implementation i’ve done was a Windows NT 4 Terminal Server. This is where i’ve learned (the hard way) that printer […]

Encrypted pages (HTTPS / SSL) are unable to export to local applications

Internet based applications can be used to export content to a local application. Usually this is done by exporting the content to a format which is commonly used, like .PDF (Adobe Reader), .XLS (Microsoft Excel) or .DOC (Microsoft Word). When the data is exported the user is confronted with a dialog which allows the user […]

[Sneak preview] RES PowerFuse 2010

Yesterday at ‘RES Software Partner Focus’ the new release of PowerFuse was shown to the public. CTO Bob Janssen gave a short demonstration of the new features and the redesigned management console. RES PowerFuse is a ‘user environment workspace manager’ and can be used for all Windows desktops. It create a unified desktop with central […]

Do we need 'fancy' features for VDI?

Everyone knows that more and more people are thinking about VDI, or at least they’re talking about VDI. And most of these people don’t really know what they’re talking about, what they really want and what they need. There are more usecases, solutions, alternatives which might be better for most of them. In this article […]

Schaamnaam 2009 : Fokje modder

Op radio 3 FM houden de radio deejays Coen en Sander elk jaar een zoektocht naar de meest schaamvolle naam van het land. De voorwaarde hierbij is dat: 1) de naam schaamtelijk is; 2) echt bestaat (ze bellen de betreffende persoon op om te verifieren). Na een periode waarin de luisteraars namen konden opgeven is […]

Macro security / VBA error in sequence

Today I had to solve a problem with multiple (Softgrid) sequences with the same symptom. Situation A business application generates documents based on Microsoft Word / Excel. These documents use Macro’s / VBA to communicate with the application and retrieve the necessary data. During initial tests and the sequencing procedures everything works fine and no […]

XenDesktop 4 released, XenClient delayed.

Yesterday I spoke a representative of Citrix in The Hague. Topic of discussion was XenDesktop, XenClient and why the release of XenClient was delayed to Q1 2010. Last June Citrix CEO Mark Templeton announced XenClient to be released in H2 2009, for free. This was during the openening keynote at iForum in Antwerp (this was […]

Vanaf nu in het Engels

Vanaf vandaag zal ik de meeste van mijn blogs in het Engels plaatsen. De meeste bezoekers van de PepperCrew site zijn Nederlandse en Belgische IT professionals, managers en “decision makers”. Gelukkig zijn zowel de Nederlanders als de Belgen goed opgeleid wat ons een voordeel geeft in de wereld economie, niet in de laatste plaats omdat […]

Yay for Green (cars)!

Vandaag reed ik langs de lokale Ford dealer en werd blij verrast door de goede smaak deze Culemborgers hebben. Er stond niet 1 Ford Focus RS, nee er stonden er twee. Wat een dikke bak! Op het blok, in the center of attention, staat een felgroene en een stukje verderop staat een witte. Want een […]