http://www.parmiter.com Virtualisation blog and Knowledge Base Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:24:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.parmiter.com/scripts/2010/07/RP732 http://www.parmiter.com/scripts/2010/07/RP732#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:37:06 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=732
I wanted to stress test a Citrix XenServer 5.6 computer to see how it copes with a number of simultaneou startup and shutdown requests. I also wanted to see the IOPS passed to back end storage where the virtual machine hard drives are stored. Rather than manually selecting the machine in XenCenter and shutting down [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/scripts/2010/07/RP732/feed 0 http://www.parmiter.com/scripts/2010/03/RP658 http://www.parmiter.com/scripts/2010/03/RP658#comments Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:52:31 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=658
When using Adobe Flash to access old content that was coded on previous versions, a message can appear stating that Flash has stopped a potentially unsafe operation. This message could also appear for content running from network shares. The message will be similar to: If you select the ‘settings’ options the web based Adobe Global [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/scripts/2010/03/RP658/feed 0 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenapp-citrix/2009/10/RP621 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenapp-citrix/2009/10/RP621#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:18:13 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=621
In order to profile Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.2 for Citrix streaming I did the following. Stage 1 – Download source files Download and install the Adobe Customization wizard 9 Download the distribution version of Acrobat reader 9.2. You need to register on the adobe site to get access to this download. Extract the msi from [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenapp-citrix/2009/10/RP621/feed 3 http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2008/2009/09/RP616 http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2008/2009/09/RP616#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:19:26 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=616
Windows 2008 has some icons that appear in the systray by default. The network icon is an example that appears even in a terminal server or Citrix session, as shown: It is un-necessary clutter that would be best to remove in the terminal server session. However, there is no Group Policy option to do this [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/microsoft/windows-2008/2009/09/RP616/feed 0 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/citrix-web-interface/2009/09/RP611 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/citrix-web-interface/2009/09/RP611#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:56:40 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=611
Situation Web Interface 5.1 (or 5.x) Two factor authentication server is RADIUS All user accounts use the full UPN name to login (i.e. user.name@domain.com) Problem By default, Web Interface does not send the full UPN username to the RADIUS server, so the two factor authentication fails. Resolution The following file needs to be edited to [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/citrix-web-interface/2009/09/RP611/feed 0