I’ve recently been working with an organization going through a transition to new ownership and one of the changes taking place is that the company will inherit users from a remote office that is currently owned by the company that is selling them off. I
A client gave me a call earlier today to look into an issue where their organization would be able to send emails outbound but could not receive from external internet recipients. After logging into their environment and reviewing the Exchange Server 2010 servers, I noticed
I’ve noticed that I’ve gotten a lot of calls in the past from clients about missing certificate templates while trying to use the MMC Certificates snap-in to request a new certificate so I decided to write this short post so I can point clients or
Problem You’ve received complaints from users that they do not see a complete list of all printers when adding network printers through Devices and Printers: Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer: … and in the following list, users only see a total of 20
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 any of the provided scripts will do so: What happens when this service is disabled is that Outlook 2010 begins to
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 installed. Searching on the internet didn’t shed any more light
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 startup so that I can reference this post if I ever need
I’ve recently noticed that while I’ve written blog posts about Citrix User Profile Management, I haven’t actually written one for VMware View’s Persona Management that is bundled with VMware View 5.0 and later. As some other VMware View professionals know, there are benefits and drawbacks
I’m sure all of us have come across the issue where we have certain folders (i.e. redirected folders, roaming profiles) that we don’t have permissions to and when we try to delete them, we’re unable to: As a Windows administrator, we all know that we
One of the most frequent issues I’ve had with Microsoft terminal and Citrix XenApp servers is preventing Active Directory user and computer policies from being applied to these servers. The computer policies are easy enough to block with the Block Inheritance feature within the Group
