From the monthly archives:

October 2005

Lessons from the field: Backup Active Directory

in General

Backup the system state on your domain controllers. “Like duh!” you say, well that’s what I said too. I spent Friday a client’s site where a domain controller had gone down and they were experiencing issues with logons and Exchange. The client has/has four domain controllers, one at each of their four sites and all [...]

Tagged as: Active-Directory

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Lessons from the field: Presentation Server

in Terminal Server

I’ll file this under “Stupid Things I Didn’t Know”. Citrix Presentation Server relies on the PATH variable for core components to run. I was adding to the PATH variable, in a scripted build after the CPS install and before a reboot, with a command like this: C:\REG ADD “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment” /v Path /d “%PATH%;%ProgramFiles%\Sysinternals” /f [...]

Tagged as: Presentation-Server

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Citrix Application Isolation Environment launch delays

in Virtualisation

In a previous topic, I used the Application Isolation Environment feature in Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 to solve an issue where sites require different versions on the Java VM. A side effect of this was, however, that the application would take around 60 seconds to launch. Turns out the issue pops up on Windows Server 2003 [...]

Tagged as: Presentation-Server

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IIS and Site Identifiers

in Windows

Having previously having issues installing an applications on IIS where the Default Web Site (i.e. the site with an identifier of 1) no longer exists, I was hesitant to edit the METABASE.XML. So I bit the bullet, stopped IIS, opened METABASE.XML in Notepad and changed all instances of the existing identifier to 1, saved and restarted [...]

Tagged as: IIS

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Presentation Server and the Sun Java VM

in Terminal Server

If I could live in a world without Java, I’d be happy… The Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 Management Console requires a specific version of the Sun Java VM to be installed before the console’s setup program will run. The version required is 1.4.2_06 and the latest version of the VM from Sun is 1.5_02. I [...]

Tagged as: Java, Presentation-Server

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