Jason Poyner, Author at Deptive

Contact Deptive

Location
Deptive - Commercial Bay
11-19 Customs Street West St
Commercial Bay Tower, Level 17, Room 1715
Auckland 1010

Contact Details

0800 000 141

Postal Address
PO Box 34797,
Birkenhead, Auckland 0746

September 17, 2009

Categories

Tech tips

The password store on Windows 2008 / Vista

I always recommend a profile management system for Citrix XenApp installations; the free Flex Profile Kit is a favourite, but I recently implemented AppSense Environment Manager […]

July 31, 2009

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Tech tips

Run cmd as SYSTEM on Windows 2008 Server

Thanks to Jarvis for this one, to run a cmd window as the SYSTEM account on Windows 2008 Server, download PSExec from Microsoft and use this […]

July 30, 2009

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Tech tips

Full hard drive on Windows 2008 Server

Today a production XenApp 5 Windows 2008 Enterprise Server ran out of disk space. I only added it to the farm yesterday at which time it […]

May 17, 2009

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Commentary & opinion

Client hypervisors, are they the missing VDI link?

Citrix recently announced XenClient, their client side bare metal hypervisor. VMware announced their client hypervisor back in February and I would not be surprised if Microsoft […]

April 28, 2009

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Tech tips

Citrix Stats using PowerShell and SQL

Wow, I like what Alain has done with some PowerShell/SQL/Visual Studio tricks. I can see how this could be turned into a farm trending/capacity management tool. […]

April 23, 2009

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Tech tips

The cost of live migration: Did VMware miss an opportunity with vSphere?

VMware recently announced vSphere 4, the replacement for ESX 3.5. When I read that new editions had been released for small business I thought VMware would […]

April 23, 2009

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Tech tips

The cost of Live Migration: Did VMware miss an opportunity?

VMware recently announced vSphere 4, the replacement for ESX 3.5. When I read that new editions had been released for small business I thought VMware would […]

April 20, 2009

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Tech tips

Automated XenServer host & VM shutdown

A client is currently implementing Citrix XenServer 5.0 and had hit a snag trying to get the new XenServer hosts communicating with their APC UPS. They […]

April 19, 2009

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Tech tips

XenApp server cloning utilities

Here’s a useful looking utility from Citrix which saves the manual steps involved in preparing a XenApp server for cloning.Download here. I also just found a […]