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Re: Citrix Scalability — The Rule of 5 and 10

JBensimon — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 10:17:00 -0000

Okay, so say we agree that 10 x #cores is the total expected number of supported XA sessions, what's the recommended way to break those up into a specific number of XA VMs? Are we still looking at NUMA nodes or 1/2 NUMA nodes? Thanks.

Re: Easily deploy a full-clone server OS with Citrix Studio

JBensimon — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:30:41 -0000

Nice! Makes me wonder more than ever why this option isn't available for Server OS in Studio's catalog creation wizard.

Re: Surgically eliminating Windows Installer app repairs

JBensimon — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 10:20:52 -0000

[Recreating here a note I had attached to the original article]

While *most* of the components belonging to installed application are indeed listed under
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components
as stated, *some* installations register their components under
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\[Some-other-SID]\Components
and in some rare cases even under
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\[Some-SID]\Components
Review each of these additional areas if you initially can't locate the guilty component.

Re: Automatically Add Filesite to Outlook

JBensimon — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:24:57 -0000

Hey, Brian. Is this Registry approach to AddiMan still valid in current versions of FileSite? This page is quite literally the ONLY reference I can find to this feature, including the iManage website, all FileSite documentation, and the entire Internet! :-) Thanks!

Re: IPM’s new Remote Session Super Switcher utility

JBensimon — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 09:03:44 -0000

The question's come up whether SuperSwitch lets you get back to the entire local desktop. The answer is Yes: use the buttons to bring up any local window (which as described in the post makes the local Taskbar visible), then click the small rectangular area at the extreme right end of the Taskbar.

Re: Windows Features & The Projected File System [Developer’s Take]

JBensimon — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 17:31:29 -0000

Update/Correction: the Windows Projected File System feature *is* in fact available in Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019.

Re: How to install Windows 10 1809 "Features On Demand" Without Internet Access

JBensimon — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 14:18:12 -0000

Addendum/Correction: turns out the #Windows10 1809 FOD ISOs (there are two for each bitness) *are* indeed also available to MSDN (aka Visual Studio) *Enterprise* subscribers. Still not universal IT availability, but better than nothing.

I was using the wrong MSDN credentials when I first looked into that avenue (the whole corporate vs. personal Microsoft account thing is getting confusing!)

Re: Quick tip: Saving Credentials for Multiple RDP Hosts at the Same IP Address

JBensimon — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 19:10:48 -0000

Possibly (haven't tested it with this scenario), but I generally tend to stick with native tools. I also think RDC Mgr stores everything in some %LocalAppData% area, including credentials, which may be less secure than mstsc, which uses your account's native Windows credentials store.

Thanks though, I'll consider using your alternative when feasible.

Re: Missing EMC VxRail nodes; VMware vCenter blissfully unaware.

JBensimon — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 06:11:29 -0000

Tell us more about that "ecological wooden house" photo. Looks like an inferno waiting to happen!

Re: Total Uninstall -- A paean to the most indispensable IT tool I know!

JBensimon — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 10:13:34 -0000

Great news: the author of TU/TUU has implemented a new “Deep Audit” view that goes beyond the “Missing Items”
view (that displayed post-installation items now missing from the system) to now also displays *changed* items, i.e. differences between the post-installation “After” column and the “Current” column (the “Current” column is a bit of a hidden feature that previously had to be explicitly enabled in other views). This new feature will neatly help answer “Why has this app stopped working?” questions (not completely, of course, since an app can stop working because of an incompatibility with some other system change, but it’s a great first troubleshooting step).

Re: New IPM utility Net2SwapFlag -- solves infamous KB2536487 issue

JBensimon — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 11:03:46 -0000

If your issue is specific to the EverNote download link, I'll be happy to post the utility elsewhere for download. Otherwise, I can try e-mailing you a zip file. Contact me at jbensimonATipm.com.

Re: WINDOWS SERVER 2016 – GOING IT ALONE…

JBensimon — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 12:48:07 -0000

Please note that, upon further research, the No-GUI/Core-Only business *only* applies to the Semi-Annual Channel releases. Future Windows Server 2016 LTSC releases will continue to be made available with GUI, Desktop Experience, RDS, etc. Our buddy Aaron scared the begeesuz out of me! :-)

Re: Total Uninstall -- A paean to the most indispensable IT tool I know!

JBensimon — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:28:20 -0000

Just a quick follow-up: the Registry key timestamps are now available in the latest TUU version. They are displayed in the optional "Current" column (which follows the "Before" and "After" columns when enabled), another great feature I failed to mention. It can be used to eyeball differences between the post-setup "After" column and the current system contents -- this deep "audit" comparison might become automated at some point, supplementing the existing "missing items" view.

Re: Cucked By Zuck: Establishment Conservatives Rock Up For Pointless Meeting With Facebook

JBensimon — Thu, 19 May 2016 05:26:13 -0000

It amazes me that people who've had (mostly accidental) success with one venture are thereafter lionized as great visionaries whose every utterance has world shattering importance. Regardless of the billions he's lucked into (and more power to him -- that's why I love America and why he should), Zuckerberg is still a not-so-young-anymore liberal idiot who should count his blessings and shut up. (Feel free to substitute practically any Hollywood star in the previous sentence to obtain an equally accurate assessment).

Re: What’s on the Dog’s Bucket List in the Subaru Impreza Commercial?

JBensimon — Sat, 07 May 2016 13:50:47 -0000

I'm glad :-). I don't know if you noticed, but the commercial is airing again these days, making it (deservedly) one of the longest-lasting spots in recent times.

Re: FBI Cancels Tuesday’s Court Hearing with Apple

JBensimon — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:08:43 -0000

Ouch! If it's true and the 3rd-party can deliver, Apple is going to wish they'd done it themselves. Bad PR.

Re: Oberlin's president refuses to negotiate student list of demands

JBensimon — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:10:19 -0000

"higher education"?? I think these students (I use the term in the broadest sense possible) have pretty much established they're not ready for that. They do have a good shot at that $8.20 at McDonald's though.

Re: Oberlin's president refuses to negotiate student list of demands

JBensimon — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:05:46 -0000

Where do you see "sincere but misguided" in that racist, divisive, abusive and childish list of demands? Let's call morons morons, shall we?

Re: Elementary’s disappearing character marks “Miss Taken”

JBensimon — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 13:59:29 -0000

Well, I was just passing through, so I had no sense of the "local culture". Thanks.
By the way, the reason I was looking up information on this episode was that I was trying to identify the actress who played pseudo-Mena / Cassie. Turns out to be Ally Ioannides, who I thought was very good in the role -- wouldn't mind seeing her character again some day.
JB

Re: Elementary’s disappearing character marks “Miss Taken”

JBensimon — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 13:52:43 -0000

Thanks for the explanation. It still leaves me wondering whether "gendering" is a neutral term or is deemed something to be avoided (which was the impression I got upon encountering the term). Is it considered wrong to use in fiction the reasonable possibility that some women might be more intuitive in certain areas than their male counterparts? or that some gays might have a better fashion sense than say ... me?! Let's just say I prefer gendering to neutering any day! :-)

Re: Elementary’s disappearing character marks “Miss Taken”

JBensimon — Fri, 08 Jan 2016 08:40:41 -0000

"Gendering"?? Pardon my ignorance, not being a graduate of some Women's Studies program or other, but is that a thing? ... and a bad one at that? Am I intuiting correctly that "we" now believe writers should stay away from ever assigning behaviors and storylines based on their characters' gender? I for one don't look forward to a world of fiction populated with sexless store mannequins, though I suppose that would jive nicely with the fashion (which I thoroughly reject) of calling all Thespians "actors", regardless of their (gulp) gender. I'll merely point out that one of the hooks of this particular incarnation of the Sherlock Holmes universe is the choice of a female Watson, and of a pretty one to boot. I hardly think the show would enjoy the same success if the choice had been Abe Vigoda. :-)

Interesting and provocative recap, though. Thanks.

Re: What’s on the Dog’s Bucket List in the Subaru Impreza Commercial?

JBensimon — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 01:45:38 -0000

I usually scoff at Subaru commercials and their obvious Hippie tree-hugger "Obama voter" appeal, but this one gets me where I live. I can only watch and hug my dogs. As for the doom-and-gloom "he won't make it to 15" interpretation of the 14th+1/2 birthday, I disagree: the dog still looks plenty healthy and playful to me, and the usual 1 dog year = 7 human years rule of thumb suggests that the owner is actually celebrating the dog's 100th birthday (in human terms) since the 14th birthday would only have amounted to 98 human years and thus been premature. That's my take, and I'm sticking to it: the whole thing's heartbreaking enough as it is! :-)
Thanks for the article, Tim. You're a good guy.
Jacques.

Re: Lynx Auto Restored XenApp Printers

JBensimon — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 14:29:08 -0000

It's incredible that after all these years, the issue still exists and the only (not sure if temporary) solution is to delete the users' HKCU\Software\Citrix\PrinterProperties (or relevant subkeys thereof) on the client machines. The problem with the policy to disable the creation of "auto retained and auto restored printers" is that the first kind ("auto retained") is *useful* and only the second kind ("auto restored") is the problem, and as far as I know nobody purposefully creates this second kind. It would be great if there were *separate* policies for disabling each of these two kinds of printers. ["auto retained" are the additional ICA client printers that a user "requests" using "ICA Client Printer Configuration", a great tool to provide users in combination with the policy to only auto-create the client default printer].
I wish I knew what piece of Citrix code (ICA client? print manager service? ...?) does (or did at some point) contain all these references to foreign usernames and printers and clients and gateways, etc. -- somebody got hacked somewhere along the line and is being quiet about it!
Jacques.

Re: Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem

JBensimon — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:32:20 -0000

HELP! Can somebody *please* explain the ending of this movie to me. I understand that the wife agrees in some sense to have no other man after the divorce if it is granted by the husband, but how? Is it just a promise? Is it somehow legally enforceable? Is she merely and somehow giving up her right to remarry religiously? (she'd be insane to ever consider that anyway after what she's been through).

Re: The Mystery of the Disappearing Pinned Shortcuts

JBensimon — Fri, 15 May 2015 18:47:32 -0000

You need to preserve the Registry value "Favorites" at HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StartPage2 in order for the shortcuts in "%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\StartMenu" to remain visible. As far as that "Excel (2)" issue, you need to remove the existing "Excel" shortcut at the above location *before* you pin Excel again (which will recopy it to that location, now simply as "Excel").

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Re: Citrix Scalability — The Rule of 5 and 10

Re: Easily deploy a full-clone server OS with Citrix Studio

Re: Surgically eliminating Windows Installer app repairs

Re: Automatically Add Filesite to Outlook

Re: IPM’s new Remote Session Super Switcher utility

Re: Windows Features & The Projected File System [Developer’s Take]

Re: How to install Windows 10 1809 "Features On Demand" Without Internet Access

Re: Quick tip: Saving Credentials for Multiple RDP Hosts at the Same IP Address

Re: Missing EMC VxRail nodes; VMware vCenter blissfully unaware.

Re: Total Uninstall -- A paean to the most indispensable IT tool I know!

Re: New IPM utility Net2SwapFlag -- solves infamous KB2536487 issue

Re: WINDOWS SERVER 2016 – GOING IT ALONE…

Re: Total Uninstall -- A paean to the most indispensable IT tool I know!

Re: Cucked By Zuck: Establishment Conservatives Rock Up For Pointless Meeting With Facebook

Re: What’s on the Dog’s Bucket List in the Subaru Impreza Commercial?

Re: FBI Cancels Tuesday’s Court Hearing with Apple

Re: Oberlin's president refuses to negotiate student list of demands

Re: Oberlin's president refuses to negotiate student list of demands

Re: <i>Elementary</i>’s disappearing character marks “Miss Taken”

Re: <i>Elementary</i>’s disappearing character marks “Miss Taken”

Re: <i>Elementary</i>’s disappearing character marks “Miss Taken”

Re: What’s on the Dog’s Bucket List in the Subaru Impreza Commercial?

Re: Lynx Auto Restored XenApp Printers

Re: Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem

Re: The Mystery of the Disappearing Pinned Shortcuts