Unable to access some performance counters remotely
Maybe it helps someone else. I had an issue today where the disk related performance counters were working locally but not remotely. Well, to start with they weren’t working locally either but I...
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Various Citrix and Profile and Folder Redirection bits and bobs
I am a bit all over the place as I am trying to do multiple things and discovering so many new things. It’s exciting, but also a bit overwhelming. I know I should note it all down for future reference...
View ArticleRegistry keys for various settings
Continuing in the vein of my previous post where I want to try and apply more settings via registry key changes to the default user profile as opposed to a GPO change, I thought I should have one place...
View ArticleNotes on Server 2012 DHCP Failover
A bit confused on some terminology regarding Server 2012 DHCP failover in hot standby mode. I don’t think I am alone in this, and have been reading up on the same. Thought I’d put down what I read in a...
View ArticleTIL: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT is not the default user profile
I knew this already but came across again from this script Q&A and thought its worth reminding myself: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT is not the default user profile (i.e. the profile used as the default...
View Article%TEMP% environment variable has a \2 or other number after it
For my XenApp servers I had set the TEMP and TMP environment variables via GPO to be the following: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp. But that seems to be ignored as all my users were getting these...
View ArticleAsynchronous processing of Group Policy Preferences
My XenApp servers are set to process their GPOs synchronously (because I apply folder re-direction via GPO) and unless I do it synchronously there’s a chance that the user could login without folder...
View Article[Aside] Finding the source of a domain account lockout
An excellent post. Easy and to the point. Wish I had discovered this much before. The upshot is: Enable debugging on a domain controller: nltest /dbflag:0x2080ffff Disable debugging after a bit: nltest...
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MSI, MST, and disabling auto-healing/ self-repair/ “please wait while Windows...
This issue had be irritated for a week. Finally, thanks to this blog post I think I solved it. Fingers crossed. Bloody Darwin descriptors! :) So what was the issue? I setup Citrix XenApp for Office...
View Article[Aside] How to convert a manually added AD site connection to an...
Cool tip via a Microsoft blog post. If you have a connection object in your AD Sites and Services that was manually created and you now want to switch over to letting KCC generate the connection...
View Article[Aside] Always offline mode for cached files
I wasn’t aware of this until a few weeks ago. Starting with Windows 8/ Server 2012 there’s an always offline mode for cached files and folders. That’s useful!
View ArticleFirefox Offline Installers
For my own info – Offline installer for Firefox – https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ Offline installer for Firefox Beta – https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/all/ Offline installer for...
View ArticleSet 7-Zip as the default for zip files
Had to do this for my XenApp install (7-Zip on a Server 2012R2). Thanks to this post which is in turn based on this post. Trick is to put the following into a registry file and double click/ import it...
View ArticleAdding multiple languages via Registry
I wanted to have multiple languages/ keyboard layouts in my XenApp environment. Thought I’d push it out via a registry key change. I forget the blog post I had found the details from but this one has...
View ArticleXenApp and Run/ RunOnce keys
Reminder to myself: the Run and RunOnce entries in HKLM and HKCU are not processed if an application is launched via XenApp. That’s because these keys are processed by explorer.exe and that doesn’t run...
View Article[Aside] How to roam AppData\Local too
Came across this video from James Rankin. Apart from being an excellent video, it has one important thing which I felt I must note down here as a reference to myself. I always thought AppData\Local and...
View ArticleDeleting credentials from Credential Manager remotely
The title is a bit misleading, but whatever. I wanted to delete the credentials in Windows Credential Manager on a remote machine. I didn’t want to delete any particular credential – what I suggest...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to find Computer objects in AD that have inheritance disabled
I needed to find the computer objects in an AD OU that had inheritance disabled. Did the following: Get-ADComputer -SearchBase "OU=something,DC=myDomain,DC=com" -Filter * | ?{...
View ArticleHow to remove complex scripts from Word DOCX documents
Recently came across a Word document where some parts of the document seemed to ignore the general rules. The document was in English, and its language was set to English (U.S.) but certain parts were...
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Word 2010 – The xxxx.docx cannot be opened because there are problems with...
Got the following error for a Word document at work. Obviously your mileage may vary in terms of the fix but here’s what I did so there’s a starting point. Since this is a docx file I extracted it...
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