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Monthly Archives: October 2005

Lessons from the field: Backup Active Directory

31-Oct-05

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 [...]

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Lessons from the field: Presentation Server

19-Oct-05

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
Unfortunately, that [...]

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Citrix Application Isolation Environment launch delays

10-Oct-05

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 [...]

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IIS and Site Identifiers

10-Oct-05

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 [...]

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