From the monthly archives:

March 2007

After getting our ISA Server logging to MSDE again (rather than flat files), I was able to get an idea of how much traffic this site and virtualserver.tv are generating and I was quite surprised. Between me and Dugie we’re generating about 6 GB a month which is far more than I thought. As our [...]

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Upgrading our Access Gateway last night proved to be a bit of a challenge where perhaps it should not have been. The problem was not with the product, more due to the time between installs. Access Gateway is generally requires little administration after deployment and it’s certainly not a product I get to work with [...]

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Microsoft have pulled the PolicyMaker Regsitry Extension download. This product is part of what is now known as Group Policy Preferences, a new feature of Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. If you are still writing custom ADM templates for your application deployments and haven’t heard of DesktopStandard PolicyMaker Registry Extension, then it’s definitely something [...]

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The Endpoint Analysis feature of Citrix Access Gateway Advanced allows you to scan the client machine for specific criteria before the user is allowed access to internal network resources. One of these scans is machine membership of your internal domain. When configuring this scan you specify the NetBIOS name of your domain and apply this [...]

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I came across a Windows Sidebar gadget the other day which is actually proving to be useful – the Microsoft Office 2007 Recently Used Documents gadget. It’s quite handy having a list of your recent documents available without having to go through the Start Menu. I recommend checking this one out. At this stage it [...]

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I’ve spent some time in the past couple of days working out how to do an unattended install of Web Interface and Advanced Access Control and certainly been a challenge. Whilst I haven’t worked everything out, I thought that I would outline what I’ve found out thus far. Why would we want to automate the [...]

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I’ve been speedlinking some interesting Network Access Protection links in the past (which you can find here, here, here and here) and as speedlinking is so very 2006, I thought that I would rebrand these types of posts to ‘The Short NAP’. So here’s The Short NAP for Tuesday 20 March 2007. MVP Summit – [...]

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In my previous article on customising the Presentation Server Client, I outlined the steps required to make a custom package for deployment to your client machines. That just article covers creating the custom package using the packager, but there a few other customisations you might be interested in: Prepopulating PN.INI and APPSRV.INI If you are [...]

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