Entries by Robin Plomp

Hosted Shared Desktop on XenDesktop 7.1

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Recently I did some research for an Hosted Shared Desktop environment based on Citrix XenDesktop 7.1.  The environment I did my research for consists of 40+ Remote Desktop Services servers, based on Windows 2012 R2. These servers are Citrix Provisioning Services target devices. Within Citrix XenDesktop we have published an Server OS Desktop, with the […]

Creating a VHD vDisk from the endpoint device

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I’m deploying Citrix XenDesktop 7.1, with Citrix Provisioning Service Server, at a customer site.  The customer is using VMware 5.1 for a hypervisor. Today I am going to create the VHD file to be streamed into the VMware virtual machines and they will be delivered to the end users thru Citrix Storefront. I’ve installed Windows […]

Shutdown Windows without installing updates

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Today I want to migrate a Windows 2008 R2 server from a VMware 4.x to a new VMware 5.x environment. I will perform a cold migration. As in any project I want to migrate this server with the smallest down time possible. When I log on to the server and open the start menu I […]

Policy issues after Imprivata appliance upgrade

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Recently I have performed an upgrade of an Imprivata environment at a customer site. At this customer (a hospital) Imprivata is used as a alternative for entering a username and password. This makes it for the user possible to roam there session by swiping an proximity card over a card reader  that is attached to […]

How to check if an Citrix PVS vhd is in private access mode from the endpoint.

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Last week  I was altering a Citrix XenApp image at a customer site. The Citrix Provisioning environment is setup to use the VHD files from the D drive from the two virtual Provisioning servers. The customer was ready to deploy this image, just a couple of days before the deployment an extra program needs to […]

Checking if an AD object still exist

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Last week I was talking to an friend, he is an system administrator with a large insurance company in the Netherlands. He told me that at his site there is a huge problem with cleaning up home- and profile folders. This problem was never really acknowledged because there was always enough storage. Recently they have […]

RES Software Partner Focus 2013 Highlights

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Yesterday I’ve attended the RES Software Partner Focus in Amerongen. Overall it was a great day with good technical sessions that brought us up to speed with the new products that RES Software will be launching in February 2014.  It is good to see that RES Software is still busy with evolving their products. They […]

Resolve GUID to Group Policy Display Name

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Today I am troubleshooting some error messages in the event log of a Windows Domain Controller on a customer site. The customer site contains a Windows 2003 Active Director. I will use an Windows 2008 r2 management server to troubleshoot this issue. The AD management and policy management roles and features are installed on this […]

Backup internal database HP Dataprotector failes to run

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At a customer site I received a notification that the job that backups the HP Dataprotector internal database (DP: IDB)had failed to run. The rest of the environment backup was successful. When the backup of the internal database does not run a backup report is not send to the administrators mailbox The backup job for […]