If you are having to enter your credentials in twice to access VMware View, when you have single sign-on enabled in your environment, then read below for some helpful troubleshooting tips:
1. Double check that VMware View Agent installation and config is correct. As the installation progresses, select “Log In As Current User”.
2. Verify that disclaimers and login banners are not in use when PCoIP is in use as the display protocol. (LINK)
3. Confirm that userinit is configured to pass login credentials successfully. (LINK)
4. Ensuring proper chaining with GINA is processing successfully. (LINK)
5. Double check Microsoft Group Policy to confirm that no GPOs are conflicting. (LINK)
6. Confirm that “Interactive Logon: Do Not Require CTRL+ALT+DELETE” Group Policy is disabled. (LINK)
Is your company still running SharePoint 2007? Has your company been considering an upgrade to SharePoint 2010? Well here’s another compelling reason to upgrade – Microsoft’s Mainstream Support will end on 10/9/2012.
See this link for more information…
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&qid=&alpha=SharePoint+Server+2007&Filter=FilterNO
What does this mean? Here is Microsoft’s explanation on what that means…
What is the difference between Mainstream Support, Extended Support, and online self-help support?
|
Support provided
|
Mainstream Support phase
|
Extended Support phase
|
|
Paid support (per-incident, per hour, and others)
|
X
|
X
|
|
Security update support
|
X
|
X
|
|
Non-security hotfix support
|
X
|
Requires extended hotfix agreement, purchased within 90 days of mainstream support ending.
|
|
No-charge incident support
|
X
|
|
|
Warranty claims
|
X
|
|
|
Design changes and feature requests
|
X
|
|
|
Product-specific information that is available by using the online Microsoft Knowledge Base
|
X
|
X
|
|
Product-specific information that is available by using the Support site at Microsoft Help and Support to find answers to technical questions
|
X
|
X
|
Note: A hotfix is a modification to the commercially available Microsoft product software code to address specific critical problem
See this link for the FAQ…
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy
What is your upgrade plan?
Cisco’s Unified Computing Systems (UCS) has acquired the reputation of leading the next-generation of data center platforms by merging together the IT needs of computing, networking, storage access and virtualization into one unified system.
Cisco has recently announced NEW additions to their Q3 Cisco Smart Play bundles. Now until July 28, 2012, there are (8) extensively discounted Single Expansion UCS B-Series Blade Servers and C-Series Rack-Mount Server Packs that are fully configured and ready to be implemented in any data center. This is a great opportunity for any company to experience the next-generation of data center platforms with Cisco’s UCS at an exceptionally low entry point.
NEW B230 & C260 Expansion Packs
Expansion Pack Bundle Description : 8 New bundles have been added to the Q3 Smart Play Program Expansion Packs comprising of (4) B230 blade and (4) C260 rack systems. The difference between each offering is a combination of type of processor (E7-2870 and E7-2860) and available memory.
For further information and pricing on these Cisco Smart Play Bundle Promotions, please email insidesales@eGroup-us.com or call 1877-eGroup-1.
Sometimes it becomes necessary to reset the Citrix License Console admin password. It is actually a very straightforward operation once you know how to do it.
- Open the server.xml file located in C:\Program Files\Citrix\Licensing\LS\conf\
- There should be an entry that begins with <user firstName=”System” id=”admin”…
- Replace the contents between the quotes of password=”" and replace it with a simple plain-text password. This is only a temporary password. The contents will be encrypted
- Change passwordExpired=”false” to passwordExpired=”true”
- Save and close the xml file
- Restart the Citrix Licensing Server Service
- Log into the Licensing Console using the username admin and the password you set in Step 3
- You should be prompted to reset the password upon logging in
- Re-open the server.xml file and verify that the password=”password you set” is now an encrypted string representing the new password you just entered
Good luck!
Windows Performance Monitor (PerfMon.exe) is a quick and easy way to monitor the performance of server hardware and the operating system to troubleshot problems and discover performance bottlenecks. PerfMon is flexible and has low overhead.
A link to an outstanding blog post authored by a Microsoft senior support engineer on using PerfMon to monitor disk performance can be found here.
In Part I I covered the basics of what the “new” Personal vDisk feature in XenDesktop 5.6 is. In this part I’ll cover how it’s installed/configured, and some of the interesting things I found out doing during some lab-playtime.
The installation/configuration to enable the Personal vDisk is rather low-thrill, and that’s a good thing because simplicity is bliss, right?
On the golden Windows 7 image I created I installed the virtual desktop agent and was presented with this new screen prompting me to enable the PVD on the desktop side.
During the creation of the desktop Catalog, the new option for “Pooled with personal vDisk” is available, and that’s the one I used. This creates the desktops using Machine Creation Services (MCS).
Through the wizard I set the PVD to 10GB and used the P: drive.
That was basically the process to “enable’ the feature, and I wanted to take it out for a spin. My first login actually gave me an error message about not being able to connect to the vDisk image, so I went back to my golden Windows 7 machine and updated the vDisk inventory, shut it down, and took a new snapshot. This process took a couple of minutes, but seemed to do the trick.
On my next login everything worked as desired, and my PVD mapped/connected without issue. Logged into the desktop, I downloaded and installed Google Chrome, adding a shortcut to my desktop. Then I logged out, went back to the base image and applied some updates and installed Adobe Reader– tasks that are likely common for an IT administrator. Once the image completed and my desktop was available, I logged back in and sure enough, Google Chrome was there waiting for me.
I decided to get a little creative with the testing. I created a second desktop assignment (the same user, but now assigned to TWO desktops) and logged in to the newly assigned desktop, “PVD Pool (2)”. None of my apps or test data were there. On this second desktop I installed WINRAR, and added the shortcut to the desktop, and logged back out.
Next, I logged in to each desktop as the original user (administrator) and was presented with two separate “PVD environments”, with the applications I installed maintained separately to each PVD on each desktop.
To take it a little further, I assigned a SECOND USER to the second desktop (username Average Joe) and logged in with that account.
To my surprise, the WINRAR application was still available– which leads me to believe the “Personal” vDisk isn’t so much “personal” as much as it was “desktopanal”, which is a new word. What I mean by this is that the PVD stays with the desktop it connects to first, even if a different user is then assigned and logs in (which is what I did).
As Average Joe I installed Firefox, logged off, then logged back in as the original user and Winrar and Firefox were both available– again, proving that the PVD is tied to a desktop, and not just the original user assigned to it, but any user who then logs in to that desktop.
FLISH MADNESS day 5. It’s been a rocking week of blog action and UCS training. I have enjoyed every minute of it. We are closing out the week with concluding the conversation on End User Computing.
To review, we discussed the three things needed for EUC to be successfully deployed in a corporate IT environment. The first two topics can be found here(1) and here(2).
- Device agnosticism aka BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
- Application abstraction / Modern Application development HTML 5, Soap etc
- Secure MDM (Mobile Device Management)
Mobile Device Management
Read more >>
