Monthly Archives: October 2005

Lessons from the field: Backup Active Directory

Posted on October 31, 2005 by Aaron Parker

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. … Continue reading →

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Lessons from the field: Presentation Server

Posted on October 19, 2005 by Aaron Parker

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 … Continue reading →

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Citrix Application Isolation Environment launch delays

Posted on October 10, 2005 by Aaron Parker

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 … Continue reading →

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IIS and Site Identifiers

Posted on October 10, 2005 by Aaron Parker

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 … Continue reading →

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Presentation Server and the Sun Java VM

Posted on October 5, 2005 by Aaron Parker

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 … Continue reading →

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