How to install and configure PVS 6.1 with XenDesktop 5.6
Here's my full walkthrough for installing PVS 6.1 with XenDesktop 5.6. Covers SQL permissions, PVS server setup, vDisk creation, and streaming Windows 7 VMs.
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Here's my full walkthrough for installing PVS 6.1 with XenDesktop 5.6. Covers SQL permissions, PVS server setup, vDisk creation, and streaming Windows 7 VMs.
If you need to change the SQL server name, account, or password on a XenApp 6.5 farm, dsmaint config updates the mf20.dsn connection without breaking IMA.
If your XenServer VMs won't start with 'certificate verify failed', the cause is likely an expired StorageLink SSL cert. Here's how to find it and fix it fast.
If Java applets won't load in published IE on XenApp, the JRE cache path is broken. Here's how to redirect the Java deployment cache so web applets load correctly.
If all your backend web servers go down, you can have the NetScaler serve a maintenance page directly. Beats browser timeouts and keeps users informed.
Here's the exact Responder Policy expression and 301 redirect action to force all HTTP traffic to HTTPS on a NetScaler, sitewide, without touching individual vservers.
If you need to verify SSLv2 and weak ciphers are disabled for PCI or SOX, here are four tools that work across IIS, Apache, NetScaler, and F5 BigIP.
If you're getting broken chain warnings on your NetScaler, you need to install and link the root and intermediate CAs properly. Here's how to do it right.
The NetScaler GUI only updates every 7 seconds, which isn't real-time. Use nsconmsg and connectiontable over SSH for accurate live traffic, connections, and throughput stats.
If your NetScaler HA nodes have mismatched dates, you'll get cookie persistency failures during failover. Here's how to check and sync FreeBSD system time via SSH.
Got an IP conflict and traced it to a MAC address in your VMware cluster? This PowerCLI one-liner finds the exact VM and NIC causing it across all your ESX hosts.
If your P2V migration gets stuck in an endless 'PCI to PCI Bridge Detected' install loop, version 7 VMs create 32 bridges and you have to install them all. Or just disable pciBridge in the VMX.
Here are my favorite PowerCLI scripts for ESX admins. Start with vCheck, which emails you an automated daily health report every morning before you even sit down.
After VMware dropped ESXi Free support from Veeam and other backup tools, GhettoVCB became the way to get free image-level VM backups. Here's how to set it up.
Here are my favorite free SharePoint 2007 add-ons from CodePlex. Color-coded calendars, chart generation, SLK e-learning, permission checking, and admin tools I've actually used.
Don't restore an entire Exchange mail store just because a user deleted archived items in Enterprise Vault. Enable Recover Deleted Items or export to PST from VAC instead.
Exchange 2003 has built-in spam filtering that actually works. Here's how to configure Spamhaus RBLs, recipient filtering, Sender ID, and the IMF. No third-party software needed.