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May 26 2011
My colleague Eric Inch did a nice job summarizing the Citrix Partner Summit that occurred Monday and Tuesday this week. Starting Wednesday, several thousand more people showed up to take part in the Citrix Synergy conference.
Jan 26 2011
The new Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 client was finally released by Microsoft, and one of my clients was eager to get it installed and integrated with SCCM. I figured, it’s a Microsoft product, just launch the setup and hit enter a few times to get it installed. No big deal. Well, I launched the setup, accepted the EULA, chose the default settings, hit enter and BAM! I received an error saying, “The SQL Server computer cannot be found in Active Directory”.
Nov 12 2009
One of the new features of Active Directory in Server 2008 was the ability to create a granular password policy. Prior to this, password policies could only be applied at the domain level. This meant that if you needed to have multiple enforceable password policies, you were required to have multiple domains – one for each password policy that was required. With the addition of granular password policies, you can create several different policies and apply them to individual users or groups. This allows a lot more flexibility for administrators.
Jun 29 2009
I was recently pulled in on a project to assist with troubleshooting performance issues on a large number of Citrix servers that had recently gone through the P2V process (physical to virtual). After the process the servers were running quite slowly.