Note: NewSID will be retired from Sysinternals on November 2, 2009

So here is the file

This is another one from Melvin, came in via email so its no up on his blog.

In the past you could right click an icon in Web Interface and select “Save Target As” to get the Launch.ica file. It does not seem to work anymore, so here is a solution.

CTX115304

I found a good site with free non-braindump practice exams. Having a quick play the questions seem pretty good and answers ok. Remember these are questions people have made up and answered themselves. Answers may not be correct and questions might not make sense.

70-290
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/search.php?search=70-290

Windows Server 2008 and Windows vista SP2 Available for download!

This looks pretty cool, gone is the need for an authorative restore because you had that oops moment.

2008 R2 Has a recycle bin for AD, basically deleted objects are preserved in the recycle bin for 180 days. When you restore an object it restores any permissions and trusts as well.

Uses Powershell v2:

If you install ignoring the message and users try to connect older Citrix ICA clients to a Windows Server 2008-based terminal server that has Citrix Presentation Server installed. However, the ICA clients may crash during the connection process.

Reason??

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/163409

All NetBIOS names are 16 characters in length. A NetBIOS suffix is the 16th character of the 16-character NetBIOS name. The NetBIOS suffix is used by Microsoft Networking software to identify functionality installed on the registered device.

I had someone cover for me for a couple of hours yesterday and he was nice enough to enable content advisor in IE and set a password... then walk away

So the next step was for me to remove this.

) Click on Start and the click Run. (In vista use windows key + R)

2) Type in RegEdit and click OK.

3) Now browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

Since I only ever remember a couple of these and always need to look them up.

Display Name File Name

Active Directory Management admgmt.msc
ADSI Edit adsiedit.msc
Application Server appsrv.msc
Authorization Manager azman.msc
Certificates certmgr.msc
Certificate Authority certsrv.msc
Certificate Templates certtmpl.msc
Indexing Service ciadv.msc

Since they replaced runas with UAC you only get to elevate to the local administrator in a workgroup. Mark Russinovich and Jon Schwartz of sysinternals fame heard the cry of geeks who like to play with things all over the world and decided to make things right again.

Runas still exists but only from the command line so he made a little add on that integrates it with the shell again

Citrix are growing and changing. After the XenSource purchase everything got rebranded. Brian Madden put all this together again (its a follow up to a previous article he did)

Externally, Citrix has been divided into two "Product Families":

Starting November 2007, we had signs that multiple entities (virtualization vendors, phone vendors, embedded CPU vendors) are working to bring hardware virtualization to mobile devices like cell phones and PDAs.

The fact that Samsung is porting Xen on the ARM processor should be more than enough. If not here another confirmation.

Its been a while since I posted anything, but there is never enough time to get everything done in a day.

Quick summary of R2

Hyper-V RTM is in there :) Plus live migration, kinda Xenmotion or vmotion.

What the hell is 32bit? 2008 R2 is x64 all the way. They are leaving the 32bit world behind them.

Heap of new management features for IIS 7

This article describes licensing for Citrix XenServer 4.1 and 5.0. The primary focus of this document is XenServer Express, Standard, and Enterprise Editions. XenServer Platinum Edition licensing is a combination of XenServer Enterprise Edition licensing and Citrix Provisioning Server licensing. Provisioning Server licensing for Platinum Edition is covered at the end of this document

I was playing in the lab which means I dont pay too much attention to what i'm going and managed to kill a storage repository while a vm was connected to it but suspended.

Now the end result was the vm wouldnt start up, wouldnt force power off and I couldnt do anything to the SR.

To force the power state on a vm we can use
xe vm-reset-powerstate uuid=uuid-of-the-VM force=true