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Downloads working again

The backup has been restored and all downloads should be working again. If you do find a non working download please leave a comment.

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  • Yesterday I was troubleshooting why Workspace Control was not available on an HP t5540 (Windows CE) Thin Client. This was a Citrix Xenapp 5 environment on Server 2008. When logging in through the Web Interface from the Thin Client’s browser we noticed two things: Client Detection failed and the Reconnect and Disconnect buttons were not available: NoButtons I looked into the files in the webinterface folder (wwwroot/Citrix/XenApp)and searched for workplace and reconnect. I determined that the Client Detection is done in the nativeClientDetect.js (app_data/clientDetection/clientscripts). But what I saw was very strange:

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  • 404 error on Downloads

    Most of the downloads are not working (error 404) at the moment, I am waiting for my hoster to restore some stuff from the backup so please be patient…
    UPDATE: backup is restored and downloads are working again!

    I never liked the new eventviewer that was introduced with Windows Vista. If you want to have the old eventviewer back (you can use the old and new one together) you need to follow the following steps:

    1. Open a command prompt as Adminstrator.
    2. Type Regsvr32 els.dll (if you get error code 0x80070005 then you didn’t run as Administrator).
    3. Start mmc.exe and goto File | Add/Remove Snapin.
    4. From the available Snapins choose “Classic Event Viewer”.
    5. Right-Click Classic Event Viewer under Console Root and select New Window from Here.
    6. Choose Customize from the View menu.
    7. Deselect the Action Pane and Click OK
    8. Now save the file with a name of your choice eg EventVwrC.msc.

    It should look like this:

    EventVwrC

    Doubleclicking an Event feels familiar as well:

    EventProps

    Windows Vista introduced the Command Bar in Explorer which is sometimes also referred to as the Folder Band or the Task Band. The Command Bar is of course also present in Windows 7 and Server 2008 (R2).

    CommandBar

    This Command Bar shows possible tasks or actions depending on the active folder. I wanted to remove the “Uninstall or change a program” (in Dutch this is called “Een programma verwijderen of wijzigen”) button from the Computer view:

    CommandBarButton

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    I needed to do a mass password change on imported accounts and decided to do this with Powershell. For some reason (maybe because I am using PowerShell 2.0) I got an unexpected error when using the Password property or the SetPassword method (RandomPassword is a function I wrote that generates Random passwords the meet the Complexity Requirements):

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  • I noticed that XenApp 5 Feature Pack comes with a new version of the Web Interface (5.2) (it is also available as standalone download). The parameters to install it in silent mode have changed but there’s no documentation at all on the Citrix Site:

    WIDocs

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  • Filed under: Altiris, Citrix
  • Save Explorer settings without Logging off

    This is more a note to self because I always forget. Explorer holds all it’s settings in memory so if you change a settings through the GUI (like in Folder Options) you cannot use a tool like Process Monitor to see what the corresponding registry entry is.

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    I needed to add a printer connection to a Citrix server but the problem was that this printer had a buggy driver. I wanted to use an alternative driver such as the Citrx Universal Printer driver but on Terminal Server you might want to use the Terminal Services Easy Print driver.

    So I decided to make something that could be used in both situations, the result is a small commandline tool called AddPrinter2 (sorry I am not good in finding original names).

    It takes 2 parameters: the printername as unc path and the driver name. An example would be:

    AddPrinter2 “\\server\printer” “Citrix Universal Printer”.

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    The case of the Unattended Install

    I needed to do an unattended install of an application (in this case Exact Globe 2003) on Citrix. In this case the application provides a special executable, WSetup.exe for an unattended install.

    WSetup takes several parameters, the most important ones are:

    /I: Installation Path
    /S: Install Type
    /IM: Installation Mode

    So this appeared to be an easy task, however when testing the Deployment the /I parameter seemed to be ignored and the whole thing was installed in C:\Program Files.

    I analyzed what WSetup.exe does with my favorite tool, Ida Pro and at first all seemed ok. WSetup determines the default location of the Program Files Directory by reading the ProgramFilesDir registry key (which is of course C:\Program Files).

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