This is more of a dialog of the process that I went through in troubleshooting an issue. This particular issue I think would be rare, as there are only a few situations where total closure from the Internet is actually required or implemented, but the process itself provides a potentially useful guide on logging and
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Installing Nimble Connection Manager Toolkit Silently
If you want to install the Nimble Connection Manager for Windows silently, you will need to specify a couple of options at the command line: Setup-NimbleNWT-x64.2.2.3.432.exe /S /v/qb- INSTALLDIR=\””C:\Program Files\Nimble Storage\”” NLOGSDIR=\””C:\Program Files\Nimble Storage\Logs\”” /norestart The important section is the NLOGSDIR. If this option is not specified then you will get a MSIEXEC Error 1606:
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PowerShell: Running processes independently of a PS Session on Remote Machines
PowerShell remoting is a great way of utilising commands and processing power of remote systems all from one console. It is also good at pulling information from remote systems and collating this together. There are plenty of examples of using PSSessions, and the Invoke-Command functions to manipulate remote machines, bring down remote modules to work
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PowerShell: Using AlphaFS to list files and folder longer than 260 characters and checking access
PowerShell is great. However, it has a couple of limitations – either by design or inheritance that are annoying to say the least. One commonly documented failing, which is inherited from the .NET framework is its inability to access files that have a total path length over 260 characters. Another limitation is the linear nature
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‘You Have Been Logged On With a Temporary Profile’ when all profiles have been redirected to a specific location
This is a very strange issue, which I think will only affect a handful of people, and only those who have the right mix of configurations as described below. Users logging on to a Windows 7 machine received the following popup: This message implied that there would be some informative details in the Event Log,
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VB.net: Highlighting a search term in a DataGridView
I’m building a search form into an application that has a database back end. I managed to configure a nice little search which takes some user input, and then modifies the results shown in a DataGridView control. However, not being satisfied with just showing a subset of results, I wanted to be able to highlight
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How to Create a Specific Customized Logon Page for Each VPN vServer based on FQDN without breaking Email Based Discovery
Citrix have published a guide (http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX123736) on creating a customised logon page for each virtual server, based on the FQDN received. The article works, and true to its intended aim, the sites respond on the relative FQDN and return the correctly customised login page for each of the vServers. Once this has been completed though,
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XenDesktop 7 Move Database
Unfortunately once again the documentation provided by Citrix on moving databases from one SQL Server to another is incomplete. The documentation provided here: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX140319 misses out the configuration of one of the services. The listing misses out the configuration of the Citrix Analytics Service. In my environment this meant that after the reboot of the
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NetScaler 10.5 53.9c StoreFront Monitor uses NSIP, not the SNIP
I believe I have come across a bug in the implementation of the StoreFront monitor in the Citrix NetScaler 10.5. The issue may also exist in previous versions, but I have not tested it. The NetScaler I was working on was sited in a secure network, with a firewall between the NetScaler and the internal
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Back Up SharePoint Farm using PowerShell
We have a small SharePoint Foundation 2010 site here, which contains some information which we wanted to protect. The size of the site did not particularly warrant the purchase of a license for any specialist backup software, so we were looking for a way to back it up, send some notifications and retain a specific
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