How to Activate TS CAL for Windows 2008 running XenApp6.0

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

Second setting which will bother you is

 

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

 

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

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.

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 “:”

 

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

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

 

Confirm the allocation

Download the lic file

 

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

 

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

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

 

We followed all the recommendation as per googling.

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

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

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

Right click on the host and select

 

It will pop up and ask for all the relevant information

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

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 .

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.

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

 

This is other new feature which ahs been added.

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