NTDSUTIL – Diagnostics
Excellent for finding little things wrong with your Active Directory – things like the idea that your Global Catalogue has gone A.W.O.L.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc976711.aspx
Killing rogue processes
Hi,
Just thought I would let you in to the know of a handy little tool for quickly killing zombie processes. Happen to have several chrome.exes lying about in memory?
taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe /T
type taskkill /? for help.
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Sequencing AutoDesk AutoCAD 2009
(For Network Licensed Editions Only!)
(Assumptions, familiar with Appv/Softgrid Sequencing Best Practices and principals, Windows, AutoDesk Administrative Images)
Create an Administrative Installation for AutoCAD 2009, selecting and configuring all your options.
On your Softgrid/Appv Sequencing Workstation, install .NET 3.0, VBa6, MSXML6.
Start the sequencer, and under Tools/Options/Exclusion Options and remove all Exclusions, except for the Microsoft Appv Sequencer items.
Start the Sequencer, and point it to the folder Q:\AutoCAD.2K9
Start the Administrative installation using msiexec (ie, msiexec /i “aca.msi TRANSFORMS=aca.mst /qb”)
Once the install is completed, Start AutoCAD 2009. Check to ensure all options and components work (Plotter Manager and Pen Styles especially!)
End the Capture, and step through the sequencer. Launch AutoCAd and capture it in Feature Block 1, running up all the components to be captured.
Once prepared, select the “Virtual Services” tab from the Sequencer tool, and set both the captured AutoDESk Services to Automatic (AutoCAD won’t start otherwise).
Set your distribution options (in our case http://distroserver/AutoDESK_AutoCAD_2009_Virtual_App ) and set the OS supported options (Generate MSI also).
Save the files up to the IIS/Apache Web Server at the path indicated above, and test on a Client PC.
With Any Luck, AutoCAd 2009 should launch, and all the components should be available for use.
Adrian…
User Info – Chris Cheyne
Hi,
I’m Chris Cheyne. I am an I.T Systems Engineer at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. Here, I currently specialise in the future and past of computing in thin clients through App-V, XenApp and VMWare VDI. E-mail me
Welcome to Digitalboys Blog
Welcome chaps and chapettes to the Digitalboys’ Blog.
Here you will find information on how to configure and properly deploy App-V sequenced applications through a variety of methods. Be it Terminal Services, Citrix XenApp or just via an HTTP cluster- Digital boys have been there, seen it, done that, bought the t-shirt and wore the hat.
Since this is a new blog one must expect a few things to be slow for now but we will get the site up and running shortly.
One must also note that we do not only cover virtualization. Other topics like Novell tips and tricks, true thin client computing and hardware discussions will soon be appearing. All articles are from I.T professionals.
