Problem:

Recently I needed to install a bundle of server 2008 Remote Desktop cals which had been purchased under a Select Plus agreement

My problem was I could not get the automatic activation working within the “TS Licensing Manager” tool as Select Plus is not listed as one of the available license program and tring to use Select or Open got me no where

Solution:

I found a method of manually activating the licenses;

First you will need some details about you Select Plus license;

Problem:

I have just upgraded Citrix Receiver from version 3.0 to 3.1 and I found it only allows connections to HTTPS addresses, currently I am working on test servers so adding a certificate seemed a bit over the top.

Problem:

Recently I was having issues installing the Hotfixes XA650W2K8R2X64001 and XA650W2K8R2X64002 for XenApp 6.5  I keep getting the error "Installation ended prematurely because of an error" and in the event log I would get the below;

Just found this on the BBC tech news page and had to share it,

A UK design team has devised a urinal-mounted games console, which it hopes will relieve men of boredom across the country.

Mounted above the traditional ceramic bowl, its infra-red censors turn nature's call into an opportunity to play games.

A bar in south London is the first to purchase and install the product.

BBC Click's Marc Cieslak went to the bar to put the equipment to the test.

Recently I needed to install Citrix Web Interface 5.4 into a Network load balanced cluster on top of VMware vSphere. The installation are configuration went fine however I could not ping the cluster IP from a client machine but I could ping it from the NLB nodes.

The problem and solution seem to be common on the web however but I found most of the pages I looked at were a little confusing or missing some information, so I thought I would create my own.

This post will focus on setting up NLB within VMware and will not cover how to install and configure web interface.

Problem:

On my Windows 7 devices my users have been receiving the below message when tring to attach to a new printer

Cause:

A security feature that was added in Vista and Windows 7 called “Point and Print Restrictions”

Problem:

Recently I upgraded Internet Explorer on our Citrix farm from IE7 to IE8, everything went fine except for a very important site used for entering customer orders! When users tried to use this site they received the below message with IE.

Casue:

Internet Explorer 8 has a new security feature call “XSS Filter”, more details on what the “XSS filter” does can be found here;

Problem:

Recently after running sysprep on a Windows 7 I was greeted with the message “Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass….”

I was not tring to use an unattended answer file at the time so a bit of a strange messge.

Problem:

When tring to perform a image capture of a Windows 7 client using a SCCM 2007 CD I received the message “Task Sequence: Image Capture Wizard has failed with error code (0x80004005)….”

Also when I tried to run Sysprep.exe manually from C:\Windows\System32\sysprep I received the error “A fatal error occurred while trying to sysprep the machine”

Problem:

Recently I had a need to upgrade our VMware vCenter server from 4.0 to 4.1 and also as the current server was on a 32-bit OS I also needed to migrate to a new server so I started following the belowVMware KB article.

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1021635

I was not far into the process when I received the message