Hundreds of Pictures from Citrix iForum 2006 Up

Citrix Iforum 2006

I have taken hundreds of pictures from iForum. They are in my google web album.
Click the pick above or go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/jkenzig/CitrixIforum2006
to see them. Having a ball in Florida... wish you were here!

Keep checking back at the above link as I am adding photos to it every few hours!
Jim

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Download Pick: Citrix/ Terminal Server Utility - TSWhereis

The below excellent new utility called TSWhereis is the newest utility from CTRL-ALT-Del.com  Check it out!

Jim

I know you’re all having fun at iForum but here’s a HOT new app for Citrix and Terminal Server:

Follow the link to download:

http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com.au/CAD_Utils.htm

TSWhereIs is a command-line tool to locate a user within a Domain

and to display if they are using a Terminal Server or Citrix Server.

This application searches all TS and Citrix Servers within a domain

and if the specified user is found, the session details of that user

are displayed.

 

This utility was written for the purpose of assisting helpdesk and

administrators to find if a user has a session on a TS or Citrix server

and if so, display the server name, session type, client IP, etc...

 

This utility is FREEWARE and was written by Warren Simondson of

Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy , Australia . www.ctrl-alt-del.com.au

 

Thankyou to the WINDOWS SDK available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads

 

Usage:

TSWhereIs UserName [DomainName]

 

  UserName   -   identifies username needed for the search

                 (NOT case sensitive)

  DomainName -   OPTIONAL: identifies the domain to search

 

  NB. The current Domain will be used if left blank. The Domain

      parameter is the Domain that hosts the Servers, not the

      Domain name of the user.

 

E.G. TSWhereIs Bob

 

This command will locate the user BOB on any TS or Citrix Server

within the current Domain. The results of the user's session will be

displayed.

 

E.G. TSWhereIs Mary MyOtherDomain

 

This command will locate the user Mary on any TS or Citrix Server

within the MyOtherDomain Domain. The results of the user's session will be

displayed.

 

Please note:

- In the case of published applications, a user may have more

  than one session throughout a farm. TSWhereis displays them all.

- This utility will run on a non-TS Windows 2000/ 2003 server and

  will also run on a standard Windows XP SP2 machine.

 

The freeware version is offered AS IS. Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy has made

every effort possible to ensure that TSWhereIs is free of any bugs or errors,

however in no way is TSWhereIs to be considered error or bug free.

You assume all responsibility for any damages or lost data that may result

from any errors or bugs in TSWhereIs.

 

IN NO EVENT WILL CTRL-ALT-DEL IT CONSULTANCY BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY GENERAL,

SPECIAL, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF

THIS PRODUCT.

 

Warren Simondson

Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy Pty Ltd

Website: http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com.au

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Citrix iForum 2006 Kicked off tonight

Hello all,
Citrix iForum 2006 in Orlando kicked off tonight with an opening night reception... I perused the conference hall for trinkets and looking for the usual sponsors. Of course a lot of them were not to be found (except the usual thin client ones)as Citrix has either acquired them or acquired "like" technologies and not invited them back. I'll need some extra time in the hall to talk to people before I start doing reviews, but at this point none of the noncitrix vendors has really got me excited about anything. I sure hope that changes tomorrow!

My presentation at CSEIT today went very well and hopefully will be posted in the Citrix KB soon. I think I took them all by suprise with the music and handing out dollar bills to people but at least I had fun. Something I want to remind the people who are doing presentations:

Acknowledge your audience, do not talk AT them talk to them. Doing the last presentation at CSEIT and practicing this myself I sort of threw the audience off guard because they got used to be talked AT instead of being talked to. I can tell you that every one of the people in my presentation this morning will remember being there. Citrix folks remember this and you will have an awesome worthwile memorable presentation no matter what you are presenting on. I hope this will get passed on to those doing presentations throughout the conference.

And I started taking the usual pictures and they are now uploaded at http://picasaweb.google.com/jkenzig/CitrixIforum2006

Go check them out... more tomorrow on the breakouts and such.

Citrix Iforum 2006

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Citrix CSEIT Review Day 1 Presentations

Hanging out here in sunny 80 degree Orlando today at the Citrix CSEIT. I took a lot of pictures, seemed like no one else was and asked the probing questions as I always do. It took me til after the conference was over though to figure out why my newfangled camera was blurring all the images, a total reset was in order. Rest of them ought to come out great.. Click on the Picture below to view the entire web album.

From cseit

At any rate there were 6 breakout sessions today and I attended 4 of them. I skipped the one on printing and saw Jeff Pitschs at Briforum, I instead took the time to to write this before I head off to downtown Disney.

The first session I attended was given by Kapildev Ramlal and Tim Card of Citrix. This one was on IMA Internals.
There was lots of good stuff here and the guys did a good job keeping the audience interested. They got down to the nitty gritty of the Citrix Local host cache (LHC)and pointed out a command I had not heard of before called DSMAINT VERIFYLHC /AUTOREPAIR and a utility called LHCSizer which counts the number of records in the LHC.

Want to see the tables in the Citrix datastore (ds) type in queryds /tables They noted the queryds command is case sensitive and is an issue where most admins don't know this. They pointed out the dscheck /clean command to detect and correct data store errors (careful with this command though)

One issue they ran over was when the IMA service fails to start. One solution was to make sure that the ipsec service is enable.

Citrix has released an IMA timeout fix for PS4 it is PSE400W2K3009 which is part of W2k3R02. The guys has so much to present that they ran out of time and did not get to the part of the presentation on the Medevac tool chich is a utility to simulate ica client browsing to test the XML services, ima and RPC functionality. It would of been good to hear this as I have heard a lot about this tool but never played with it.

Next Elisabeth Teixeira and Jamie Baker did a presentation on Citrix Application Isolation Environments. (AIE) To their merit the hit the key points but it is such a convuloted and difficult thing to understand for such a simple idea. (does that make any sense?) I really don't care how it all works... I just want an easy way to do it! Give me a wizard for my app. Ask me in a wizard how it normally runs...what it did when I tried to publish it regular way and then fix the problem and publish it for me so it works. It is just too convoluted and given the choice I would just set up a separate citrix vm for just that app and publish it on that single server and be done with it. I dont have the time to research and figure out what every app I publish does or how it works... I just want to do it. Will we ever get there? Anyways I think this might of gone into a little bit too much technical content for the crowd...they did know their stuff though.

Vishal Ganeriwala and Merdardus Clont presented on the MFCOM and WI SDK (isn't it called the CTXCOM or something like that now?)
Anyways they showed some good basic things you can do with these tools and how you could for example customize your WI site... I have a much easier way though and it is called use word and save as html to edit the include files. I'll give them an A- for effort though.

I skipped Jamie Baker and Nicholas Vasile of Citrix presentation on printing. I am tired of hearing of printing problems. I really haven't had any since I switched to CPS 4... it is basically fixed if you set your systems up correctly. Besides after 7 years of iforums with printing presentations and how it works I just couldn't sit through another. Sorry guys.. I am sure the newbs got a lot out of it though.

Christian Paller gave an interesting presentation following up about CTX106727 troubleshooting guide they started. Now Citrix has release CTX107572 http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX107572&printable=true the Troubleshooting tools for Citrix Environments document
Citrix has hit a homerun with this one which is a single point of reference for all important troubleshooting tools for citrix from around the web.
The idea is to create a single KB article that summarizes the sources and what you would use them for.
I was dismayed that the Thin list and its archives(http://www.freelists.org/list/thin ) was not reccomended as a resource I have been posting a download pick of the week on it for 9 years+ running now and it is a great resource a nd tool for getting answers. In fact I am surprised when I do a google search for an issue if a post from the Thin list is not in the top ten results. : ) It is that good of a resource.

And of course there is my new dowloads site at http://www.thinhelp.com/ and all of the old http://thin.net/ utilities are still out there on the msterminalservices.org site and the ones that aren't have been sent to doug for posting at dabcc. Ok off my soapbox about me... I did suggest though that a link to the above article be posted prominently on the dowloads page at Mycitrix.com (that is if you can find the new downloads page, they had to make a video of where they are now with the new version of mycitrix but that is another story. I give 2 snaps and kudos to Chris and to Citrix for acknowledging that there are other great utilities out in the world (most of them free) that can help solve issues with their product. It was a great presentation.

Jeff Pitsch's presentation on Session Security was pretty much the same he gave at Briforum this past year You can see the video of it over on Brians site at http://www.brianmadden.com/content/content.asp?ID=517

So that's it for day one on the presentation server side of things for CSEIT. I'll blog about day 2 tommorow. My presentation is the last of the group. I have been told the presentations will be posted in the Citrix KB. I'll send along a link when they are.

Have a good one...
Jim

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Pictures from CSEIT

If you care to see the pictures I have taken at Citrix CSEIT so far  from day one check out

 

http://picasaweb.google.com/jkenzig/Cseit

 

Jim Kenzig

Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

Citrix Technology Professional

Provision Networks VIP
CEO The Kenzig Group
http://www.kenzig.com
Blog: http://www.techblink.com

Terminal Services Downloads: http://www.thinhelp.com

 

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It's Official.. Go get Internet Explorer 7 now!

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

 

Regards, 

Jim Kenzig

Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

Citrix Technology Professional

Provision Networks VIP
CEO The Kenzig Group
http://www.kenzig.com
Blog: http://www.techblink.com

Terminal Services Downloads: http://www.thinhelp.com

 

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Todays Tip: Are you using WSUS/SUS and your Windows XP systems get stuck saving settings?

Hi Folks,

Been dealing with Error event ID 454 in our event logs on our Windows XP SP2 machines and then they get stuck on saving settings when you try to log them off for quite some time. The only way to get rid of it is to shut the things down by hand.  If Windows update doesn't work for you this fix will help also.

 

I found this obscure posting out on the web that suggested reregistering a dll on the system.  I have to admit I was skeptical but it appears to have resolved the issue. So here are the steps.

 

Go to a command prompt and type

 

regsvr32 msxml3.dll

 

That is it.  Workstations should log off much quicker now.  Apparantly this dll gets corrupted or unregistered for some reason. If you add a /s the box won't pop up saying it is registered so you can do this on a script.  We pushed it out via Altiris today and XP machines seem to be much happier.

 

Jim Kenzig

Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

Citrix Technology Professional

Provision Networks VIP
CEO The Kenzig Group
http://www.kenzig.com
Blog: http://www.techblink.com

Terminal Services Downloads: http://www.thinhelp.com

 

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