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Disabling Outlook 2010’s: “The Windows Search Engine is currently disabled.”...
As most VMware View administrators know, VMware’s Windows 7 Optimization Guide:VMware-View-OptimizationGuideWindows7-EN.pdf… suggests that the Windows Search service should be disabled and executing...
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VMware View 5.1.1 printer redirection with ThinPrint no longer works after...
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Configure Citrix NetScaler 10.0 for High Availability
Having configured a few Citrix NetScaler 9.x appliances in high availability in the past, I noticed that I haven’t actually written a blog post so this serves to demonstrate the steps required to...
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Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Enterprise Pool Database Permissions
As with one of my previous posts for Microsoft Lync Server 2010 where I documented the permissions for the databases created on the back-end server for a Lync Server 2013 pool:Microsoft Lync Server...
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Removing a Lync Server 2010 Standard server from an existing topology
Recently, I’ve found that I’ve had to remove a lot of Lync Server 2010 Standard servers from existing environments recently as most of my clients prepare for their upgrades to Lync Server 2013 and...
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Searching in Exchange Server 2010 OWA returns: “The action couldn’t be...
ProblemYou attempt to search the inbox of a mailbox on Exchange Server 2010 with SP2 Outlook Web App (OWA) but receive the following message:The action couldn’t be completed. Please try again.Logging...
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Lync Server 2013 Prepare Forest fails with “Prepare Forest Active Directory...
ProblemYou attempt to prepare the forest of your Active Directory for Lync Server 2013:… but the step fails with:Prepare Forest Active Directory settings execution failed on an unrecoverable error....
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Deploying a Lync Server 2013 Standard Pool on Windows Server 2012
I’ve been recently reminded by an ex-colleague that I have only written a blog post demonstrating the deployment of a Lync Server 2013 Enterprise pool: Deploying Lync Server 2013 Enterprise Pool to...
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Powering on a datastore migrated virtual machine in vSphere 4 with RDM throws...
ProblemEnvironment Information:vCenter: 4.1.0, Build 345043ESXi: 4.1, Build 348481You need to move a virtual machine that is a part of a Microsoft Clustering Services (MSCS) to a new datastore and...
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Creating a snapshot in vSphere 4 throws the error: “Cannot complete the...
ProblemEnvironment Information: vCenter: 4.1.0, Build 345043ESXi: 4.1, Build 348481You attempt to create a snapshot for a virtual machine:… but receive the following error:Create virtual machine...
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Deploying Lync Server 2013 Edge Server
I recently had to upgrade 2 Lync Server 2013 Edge servers (one on Windows Server 2008 R2 and the other on Windows Server 2012) and since I haven’t written a blog post demonstrating the process, I went...
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RDP to XenApp 6.5 server with domain user throws the error: “Connection Error...
ProblemYou attempt to connect to a XenApp 6.5 server with a regular user account without administrative privileges via RDP:… but receive the following error:Connection ErrorThe desktop you are trying...
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Deploying Office Web Apps Server on Windows Server 2012 for Lync Server 2013...
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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Deleting a desktop catalog in XenDesktop 5.6 Desktop Studio throws the error:...
ProblemYou attempt to delete a desktop catalog in XenDesktop 5.6 Desktop Studio but receive the following error:The Catalog could not be loaded due to the following errors:Unable to find machine...
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Upgrading Edge server from Lync Server 2010 to Lync Server 2013
I recently wrote a blog post to demonstrate deploying Lync Server 2013’s Edge server:Deploying Lync Server 2013 Edge...
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Publishing a application in Citrix XenApp 6.5 with a working directory...
ProblemYou attempt to publish an application with a working directory that is configured to a mapped drive:You’ve included the following in your batch file:net use K: /delete /yesnet use K:...
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Installing VMware vSphere Client 5.0 on Windows 8 fails with: “This product...
Wanting to be an early adopter of Windows 8, I went ahead and upgraded my laptop over the weekend and one of the first issues I immediately noticed was when I attempted to install the VMware vSphere...
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Problems creating bootable USB flash drive with T6X42019 HP ThinPro Image for...
A month ago or so I noticed that HP has released a new ThinPro Image for their t5745 thin clients and because I was having issues with bi-directional audio in VMware View, I was anxious to test the new...
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Federation issues after upgrading Lync Server 2013 Edge server from 2010
I was recently asked by a colleague who upgraded an Edge server from Lync Server 2010 to 2013 similar to the way I outlined here:Upgrading Edge server from Lync Server 2010 to Lync Server...
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Configuring Windows Server 2008 R2 NPS (Network Policy Server) for RADIUS...
I recently worked with a colleague of mine to get various network devices to use RADIUS authentication provided by a Windows Server 2008 R2 NPS server and realized how many devices lacked documentation...
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