Tuesday, October 26, 2010

XenApp 6: “Disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration” and “Set up Windows Internet Explorer 8 Wizard” for Windows Server 2008

When you publish IE on XenApp 6.0 on Windows 2008 R2 these two will bother you a lot . To disable these feature

  • Go to Start and click on “Server Manager”
  • Click on “Configure IE ESC” located on the right-hand section of the window.
  • The Internet Enhanced Security Settings page will be displayed. Disable necessary options. IE ESC is now disabled
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    Second setting which will bother you is

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    To disable this

    Go to a GPO then pick computer or user then Policies (in Vista / 2008 and Windows 7) -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer

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    The reason for publishing this article is to make you spend less time googling :)

    Thursday, October 21, 2010

    How to License NetScaler VPX 9.2

    Login to NetScaler VPX web console and select license under system . You will find default service which get enabled when the appliance is not licensed. image

    Now collect the hostname which will be required on the licensing portal .  This can be collect in various way. If this XenServer then you can find hostname under network and which is nothing but the mac address without “:”

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    Or ssh into netscaler vpx using putty and type shell then run “lmutil lmhostid –ether ” which will gives you same host name

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    Once you login to the secure portal of license site . Select the product as netscaler VPX and filter the product. Allocate the quantity and then type the hostname which you gather from above steps. Hit allocate

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    Confirm the allocation

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    Download the lic file

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    Now upload the lic file to the NS and then reboot the appliance to make the changes

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    Once the appliance is rebooted and came back the license will be updated for all the service which you have purchased.

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    Wednesday, October 20, 2010

    Provisioning Services setup error :Provider SQL Network Interfaces,error:26-Error Locating Server/Instance

    While running PVS service configuration wizard for PVS 5.6 , it throws the error message as shown below

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    We followed all the recommendation as per googling.

    We were supplying instance name  in the below box in every format as per googling.

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    Finally what we found that if you don’t supply instance name and then just hit next it will show up the instance which you were looking for

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    Wednesday, September 22, 2010

    P2V using VMWare convert version 4.2

    I was working with XenDesktop where I was suppose to import physical desktop and convert that as a gold image. I install VMWare converter on my laptop and connected to the Virtual Center Server . Once it is connected I can find that under plugin  manager the version shows as 4.2

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    Right click on the host and select

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    It will pop up and ask for all the relevant information

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    Make sure that if you are importing XP machine you should install Converter agent on it or else it will not detect it.

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    Coming to real cool feature which was not there with earlier version of VMWare convertor . You can edit only certain settings with earlier version but here you have lot many option .

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    The one which is new is “Synchronize Changes that occur to the source during cloning” . This would be very helpful when we are doing conversion for openfiles.

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    Now it also have feature where you can stop and start service at source and destination

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    This is other new feature which ahs been added.

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    Once it says finish , the jobs are submitted and rest all you can follow my previous blog for post P2V conversion

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    Virtual Center 4.1 on a dual homed server

    When you have dual NIC and your virtual center server is dual homed . You need to make sure that IP which will be assigned to virtual center should be updated under Managed IP address

     

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