Entries by Michaja van der Zouwen

Set IE11 Default Search Provider using Ivanti Workspace Control

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Internet Explorer uses Bing out of the box as the only search provider. Adding a provider for everyone in your environment using Ivanti Workspace Control (IWC) is easy as pie: simply add the provider on a reference machine and export the following registry key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\<GUID>] The search provider guid is a random generated one […]

You might be having an issue with a Citrix virtual driver

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I recently upgraded Citrix Receiver 4.7 to Citrix Workspace App 1904 and came across this issue: when logging in the following error occurred: I’ve blurred the driver name in parentheses because it can be different in your case. In our case the driver was called RESWSL. I never heard of this driver and neither did […]

Duplicate shortcuts using Ivanti Workspace Control and App-V 5

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When you’re using Ivanti Workspace Control (IWC) and you have imported App-V 5 packages you’re likely to have encountered the duplicate shortcut problem. In short: IWC creates a managed shortcut in the start menu for you’re App-V application, but when you launch it an extra (unmanaged) shortcut in the start menu appears for the same […]

Help! Telnet not installed!

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If you’re a system administrator the following has probably happened to you: you’re trying to troubleshoot a connection issue to a service in the environment and you want to test if a specific port is open on the destination machine. Being the veteran that you are you immediately turn to the trusted telnet command only […]

Preserve audio volume and mute in RES One Workspace

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Note: This blogpost is also posted on my personal blog – https://itmicah.wordpress.com. RES One Workspace has a lot of great options to preserve your settings between sessions. But some settings are not as easy to capture because there’s no file or registry setting for them. One of these troublemakers is the volume of the audio. […]

Capture multiple images using one MDT task sequence

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Note: This blogpost is also posted on my personal blog – https://itmicah.wordpress.com. If you deploy images in your environment that are very similar, meaning one has a few more applications installed than the other, then this is the blogpost for you! In this blogpost I’m going to share a script with you that will allow […]

RES One Automation PowerShell Module

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Note: This blogpost is also posted on my personal blog – https://itmicah.wordpress.com. When you’re a system administrator and a PowerShell enthusiast a single solution to a problem can result in something big and elaborate. A while ago I was implementing a MDT environment for a customer. I wanted to fill the MDT database with all existing […]

Configure WER User-Mode (Application) crash dumps PowerShell-style

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Note: This blogpost is also posted on my personal blog – https://itmicah.wordpress.com. When you’re a system administrator you’re likely to encounter a few application crashes during your career. In order to troubleshoot these crashes Windows Error Reporting (WER) comes in handy. It can be configured so that full user-mode dumps are collected and stored locally after a […]

Copy AD group memberships from a source user to other users

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Note: This blogpost is also posted on my personal blog – https://itmicah.wordpress.com One of those mondaine tasks you get to do as an IT administrator is assigning users to security groups for access to resources in the domain. Usually, when you ask the person making this request which security groups the user account needs membership […]

Change network connection category using PowerShell

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Note: This blogpost is also posted on my personal blog – https://itmicah.wordpress.com   I recently came across an issue with PSRemoting to a Windows 7 XenDesktop VM. I discovered remoting was disabled on the remote system because one of the network connections was a Public connection (it was the PVS connection). To change this using PowerShell is […]