Today I want to add an new hard disk to my study environment. I have a HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server with a 72GB hard drive and 16GB memory. On this server I’ve installed XenServer 6.0.
With the network I want to build I do not have enough disk space.
After I’ve placed the new disk 120GB disk in the server, and configured a logical drive in the SCSI controller, I log on to the server with a Putty client. With the commando xsconsole you get the screen bellow.
In this post, which is a follow-up to this post, http://www.peppercrew.nl/how-to-install-google-chrome-on-a-terminal-server/, I will describe how you can configure Google Chrome on a Terminal Server.
After installing Google Chrome on a Terminal Server you want to configure Google Chrome with group policy’s. I used the policy from this site: The Chromium Projects.
In this policy you want to configure a path where the user data and browser cache are stored. By default the Google Chrome user data is stored under the folder Local Settings, the part of the user profile that does not roam at logoff. If you don’t enter a different path here the user changes in Google Chrome are not saved at logoff. At first I entered the path to the user terminal server home directory (\\server\TSProfiles\%username%\Chrome\User Data).
16th February I’ve attended the RES Software Partner Focus event at the Verkade Fabriek in Oeteldonk (Den Bosch). Attending this sort of events always feels like a reunion. You meet past and present colleagues and business partners.
The event was opened by channel manager Wilfred Noordman. He introduced the new channel team and thanked the partners for their commitment towards RES Software. Next up was product marketing director Erik Nicolai. He talked about the RES concept “Iedereen de werkplek die het beste werkt”. He explained this concept by showing pictures of how people work in de RES HQ. Everybody has different needs, due to different functions and different devices.
It’s a best practice not to alter the Default Domain Policy. The default settings in this policy are intended for all users and computers within the domain. By altering this the environment becomes unstable and unpredictable.
Recently I was troubleshooting a new environment. There where all sorts of strange policy behavior. While I was browsing thru the domain I found that the Default Domain Policy was renamed and the default rights where also altered.
I wanted to restore the Default Domain Policy but preserve the settings that where set.
A customer is migrating his mail environment form Lotus Notes to Google Apps. Google Apps is a paid version of GMail.
The people from Google, that are advising us during this transition, advised us to use Google Chrome. We will use Google Chrome only for Google Apps, as it is not compatible with other web based application the customer is using.
When you are downloading and installing the default version of Google Chrome you will find out that this version is not compatible with Terminal Server. It installs itself in the user profile of the user that is preforming the installation. The exact location is: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Google.
Needles to say that this will not work on a multi user environment.
Today (6-11-2011) was the “PreProloog” for the Dakar Rally at EuroCircuit in Valkenswaard. Hans-Jos Liefhebber rides again on the PepperDakarBike.
He did a great job during the heats, remaining his number 1 position.
At 13:00 the motor finals are launched. Hans-Jos wins the race with a time of: 2:37:309. I had a great time at the PreProloog, Here are some of the pictures I made over there:
On a customers site we moved an application database from the central SQL server to the same server that also hosts this application back-end. The application vendor suggested this step due to performance issues we are experiencing during the data import process.
The customer did not have enough SQL licenses to support a second full SQL installation, so to make this work we have installed the free SQL 2005 Express version. This works fine and the application performance during the import process and during working hours has improved. A down side for using the free version of SQL server is that Database backups can’t be performed from the SQL management suite.
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On a customer site with Windows 2003 R2 servers with terminal services and no extra administration tooling we have the the following problem. When the helpdesk wants to find out on which TS server a user session is located he/she can find this out by opening the tsadmin.exe tool and lookup the username. When you have four terminal servers the tsadmin tool still works but it is not practical. On this particular customer site we are planning to upscale the terminal server environment up to eight servers. Now we can easily say that using tsadmin is no longer an option.
In many past versions of Microsoft Outlook there was a simple list of message views available and one of the choices was ‘Unread Messages’. It’s a popular option because many people use the Read/Unread status to mark messages that need action (eg reply, forwarding etc).
On a customer site we have multiple Windows 2003 domain controllers in an single AD site. One of the domain controllers has connection problems this causes authentication problems because the troubled server has the Inter-Site Topology Generator (ISTG) role. The server with the ISTG role is responsible for managing the inbound replication connection objects for all bridgehead servers in the site in which it is located.
To end the authentication problems I want to move the ISTG role from server02 to dc001. When you open the Active Directory Sites and Services console. In this console you open the troubled site. When you open the site, you see in the right pan NTDS Site Settings.
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