lately I have noticed that some of my customers is unaware of the hotfix rollup Microsoft has released for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 2008 R2 SP1. The hotfix includes many of the fixes needed in an enterprise environment, so it might be a good idea to take a closer
This is one of the small things that sometimes drag my attention. A customer once asked me if it was possible to create a subnet in Active Directory that would catch all clients, and then still have some individual subnets defined for exceptions. I must confess that I didn’t know
In some situations I need to always show all icons in the system tray. So instead of this layout: All users on the computer must see all icons ad shown here: This can be done through the GUI by selecting Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar:
Cumulative Update 2 for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 has been released http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2854009 After upgrading to System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 CU2, you will be able to identify the update in many different ways. First let us take a look at the console, after the update the console
Citrix Receiver creates a system tray icon, you might not like that in some situations. To hide or remove the icon we can create a registry entry for every single user. HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareCitrixReceiverShowIcon (REG_DWORD) with the value 0. We can set this in a SCCM or MDT task sequence if
Sometimes I have to create a published application that just starts Windows explorer.exe. As explained here this does not work as expected: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128009 I have had no luck with Method 1 (ApplicationLaunchWaitTimeoutMS) even though the described hotfix should be part of rollup 1. But method 2 works for me (LogoffCheckerStartupDelayInSeconds):
You might find your self in a situation where you are unable to use the Collect Logs button on your Windows 8 client connecting with Direct Access. The most properly reason for this is that you have not entered a Helpdesk email address when configuring the DirectAccess Client Setup page.
Previously I showed how to remove the text Your Windows desktops and apps on demand – from any PC, Mac, smartphone or tablet from the Citrix web interface. What if we would like to change the text? Start by copying the file accessplatform_strings.properties from your web interface installation, my default
I have in some situations seen a problem where I suddenly is unable to start a vbscript in an SCCM 2012 OSD task sequence with another account specified. When the situation occurs I can see this error in the smsts.log: CScript Error: Can’t find script engine “VBScript” for script The
In Office 2013 the default location of Quick Access Toolbar and Ribbon customizations is still saved in to AppDatalocal folder by default and because of these settings do not roam. In order for Quick Access Toolbar and Ribbon customizations to follow the roaming profile we can set a GPO. User
If you disable protected mode you might see warnings like this when starting Internet Explorer Protected mode is turned off for the Internet and restricted sites zones or Protected mode is turned off for the Internet zone. One way to disable or hide this warning is to set a registry
This is a short vbscript to pin programs to the taskbar. The script can for example be used in a login script. Set objShell = CreateObject(“Shell.Application”) Set oShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) Set ofso = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) strFile = “C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice12OUTLOOK.EXE” PinToTaskBar strFile = “C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice12WINWORD.EXE” PinToTaskBar
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