Published applications and UNC paths

 Server, VMware, XenApp  1 Response »
May 012012
 

As our 2003 servers and XenApp 4.5 farms slowly diminish in place of newer hardware and windows Server 2008 R2 (and VM’s – Ugh!).   Here is a quick way to enable published applications to run applications and binaries from UNC paths via your XenApp 6 and 6.5 farms.

This specific registry key is ultra-useful when you have development teams that write code and store it on some random path on the network which published icons need to access. The practice of publishing code and accessing it via command files and scripts is brilliant simply because development teams can cut out the Citrix administrators and alter applications and code from their end with no intervention. Continue reading “Published applications and UNC paths” »

 Posted by T.Mims at 12:39 pm  Tagged with: , , , ,

Roku meets the trashcan

 My Diatribe  No Responses »
Apr 042012
 

Just yesterday, I had all but made the decision that I was going to purchase a Roku device from Best Buy. I had enough of my Sony Blu Ray player and was ready to toss media player streaming and windows 8 out the door. This configuration is far from complex. It should just work and why was there not a definitive “how to” guide out there which explained how to properly configure media streaming from a computer?

Chances are you may be asking. “What about all the 6000 forums out there?” I can only respond with yeah, there is indeed many forums out there for audio/video and all its interworkings, but who wants to sift through that crap to find what you are looking for? Several of my colleagues dig that completely, but its not for me.

Lets get back on topic: I had done several internet searches attempting to find what specific video formats I could stream to my blu ray player and came up with literally nothing. All I could find were upset people who were having difficulty playing .avi and .mkv files. This is freaking annoying I kept saying to myself. All I want to do stream this video from my windows media player. Then it occurred to me, I had made all of these firewall updates to my computer and never bounced it. The reboot fixed everything. Now that being said, lets document our struggles for our 15 readers who may be having the same type of issue. Continue reading “Roku meets the trashcan” »

 Posted by T.Mims at 12:56 pm  Tagged with: , ,

disable symantic hids

 Server, Workstation, XenApp  1 Response »
Sep 262011
 

Case and point! Its completely annoying how many times we add a new environment into a xenapp farm or server environment and we need to disable HIDS simply because we have no freaking idea what the application is doing. Dont let the name – Heuristic Intrusion Detection Software fool you because it can block more than you want (and often does)!  As far as we are concerned, this is a must in your troubleshooting logic, and for testing ports, new software, etc…

So to that note, to disable HIDS in your x64 environment - run the following command.
C:\Program Files (x86)\symantec\Critical System Protection\Agent\IPS\bin\SISIPSService -i

To disable HIDS in your x86 environment – run the following command
C:\Program Files\symantec\Critical System Protection\Agent\IPS\bin\SISIPSService -i

Surely this will help you in your quest to get to the bottom of root cause analysis (RCA). We all know symantec has evolved into the black hole to us engineers, much like the network. Enjoy and please look at your firewall rules next in the event this fails. And make sure your turn Symantec HIDS back on when you are done.

 Posted by T.Mims at 10:28 pm  Tagged with: , , ,
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