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Uninstalling Mozilla Firefox with Active Directory GPO
Although not too challenging of a task, I thought it would be a good idea to quickly demonstrate how to create a Active Directory group policy that uninstalls Mozilla Firefox from workstations upon...
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Upgrading Silverlight 4 to 5 with Active Directory Group Policy
I was recently asked to look into an issue with upgrading Silverlight 4 to version 5 because creating a new Software Installation package with version 5 did not upgrade the desktops that had version 4...
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Setting Share and NTFS permissions for redirected profile and home folders...
Whether it’s setting up redirected profile or home folders for Active Directory user accounts, folders for VMware View Persona management, or Citrix UPM I find it somewhat cumbersome to manually...
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You can’t collocate Lync Server 2013 enterprise pool database with Lync...
I originally thought I could get away with collocating a Lync Server 2013 enterprise pool with a Lync Server 2010 enterprise pool SQL server, by installing a new instance on the SQL Server that hosts...
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Deploying Lync Server 2013 Enterprise Pool to coexist with Lync Server 2010
I have to admit that Lync has been one of the products I missed most over the past year as I’ve been mainly on VMware/Citrix application and desktop virtualization projects so I’ve completely skipped...
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Lync Server 2013 Publish Topology process fails with the error:...
ProblemYou attempt to publish a new enterprise pool from Topology Builder but notice that it fails with the following:Creating Database SQL-Server-FQDN\Instance…Completed with errorsReviewing the logs...
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Deploying Office Web Apps Server for Lync Server 2013 Enterprise Pool
First off, I’ve been asked by a few ex-colleagues about where the Office Web Apps documentation is because it doesn’t look like it’s included in the Lync Server 2013 RTM documents and the answer to...
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Attempting to migrate a user from a Lync Server 2010 pool to Lync Server 2013...
ProblemYou attempt to move a user from a Lync Server 2010 pool to Lync Server 2013 pool:… but the operation throws the following error: Failed while updating destination pool.SolutionThis is actually a...
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Uninstalling an Lync Server 2013 enterprise pool throws the error: “Error: An...
ProblemYou have just attempted to deploy a new enterprise pool but the Publish Topology process fails to deploy the databases properly and the only option is to delete the failed deployment’s pool....
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Injecting drivers to Windows Deployment Services (WDS) boot image
I’d like to first state that I’m in no way a WDS (Windows Deployment Services) expert as desktop deployment was always a realm that I never really got into. With that being said, I get the odd...
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Migrating Citrix XenApp 6.5 data store database from one SQL server to another
I’ve been meaning to write a blog post for migrating Citrix a XenApp 6.5 data store database from one SQL server to another as this is quite common to do whether it’s due to server refreshes, disaster...
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Citrix NetScaler VPX 1000 version 10 management interface does not load
As most administrators of the Citrix NetScaler VPX 1000 appliance know, while the location of configuration settings remain the same, the look and feel of the management interface has gone through a...
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Federation no longer works after moving user to new Lync Server 2013 pool to...
I’ve noticed that I’ve been asked several times about why federated contacts are no longer reachable after a user is moved from a Lync Server 2010 pool to a Lync Server 2013. The following are the...
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Deploying Lync Server 2013 Persistent Chat Server
One of the semi new features I’ve been interested in since Lync Server 2013 was initially announced was the new Persistent Chat Server that replaces the Group Chat server. Those who have worked with...
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Recomposing virtual desktops in a VMware View 5.x pool throws the error:...
ProblemYou attempt to recompose virtual desktops in a VMware View 5.x pool from within VMware View Administrator but receive the following error message:Internal View Composer error. Contact your...
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Unable to remove Signature from a digitally signed Excel 2007 spreadsheet
ProblemYou’ve made an attempt to sign an Excel 2007 spreadsheet with a certificate but noticed that you receive the following warning note when you reopen the spreadsheet:SignaturesThis document...
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Manually setting up Outlook 2010 or 2007 to connect to Office 365
I recently had to migrate a small office off of Microsoft Office 365 to a different hosted Exchange environment and had to find a way to extract their existing mail stored in Office 365 into their...
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Monitoring and sending email alerts for Citrix XenApp 6.5 and XenDesktop 5.6...
I was told lately by a client that their Citrix environment have been having connectivity issues to the licensing server even though the licensing service does not appear to have stopped. As there are...
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Upgrading VMware View Client from 5.0 to 5.1 with Active Directory Group Policy
To follow up one of my previous posts:Extracting the msi file from VMware View Client installation executable and installing it via Active Directory Group Policy...
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Can VMware View Agent 5.1 connect to a 5.0 Connection Server?
I’ve recently been asked a few times over the last 2 months as to whether it is possible to update the VMware View Agent to 5.1 if the View Connection server was still at version 5.0 because as most of...
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