Netflix and error w8156-c0262500
Quick post, If you get this error message on Netflix using Windows 8 you need to remove Hyper-V, it is an issue with silverlight and hyper-v so haven’t found any other fixes yet. So remove Hyper-V everything works!
Netscaler and DDoS
A part of many Network admins day to day tasks involves mitigating DDoS attacks. And they come in many types of shape and size.But they are share a common goal, disrupting the service for the users. These types of attacks make the service unresponsive and therefore cannot service the regular users who actually need to …
Citrix Netscaler and SDN
There is a lot of talk now about SDN, so I would like clarify what is actually meant with SDN.First of the name SDN is for Software Defined Networking, the concept Is actually pretty simple. It is built upon that a network administrator can share traffic from a single console Instead of having to configure …
Monitoring Citrix with Operations Manager 2012
In the earlier days if you have Operations Manager 2007 you would have MP’s available for the most of the Citrix products. On the installation media on XenApp 6.5 you would for instance have a management pack which you could use in OpsMgr 2007. Now with 2012, Citrix have said that they would no longer …
Azure integration pack for SP1 Beta
Microsoft just released a integration pack for Azure which allows you to create runbooks attached to Azure.The activities included in the integration packs are: Azure Certificates- the Azure Certificates activity is used in a runbook to add, delete, and list management and service certificates Azure Deployments- the Azure Deployments activity is used in a runbook …
Automating Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 with PowerShell
First part of this series, I showed how you could run and install all the necessary prerequisites silent and automated, this time I will write a bit more instead of just adding the commands.In Service Pack 1, Configuration Manager will finally include cmdlets for PowerShell this allows for a scripted and automated setup process. Therefore …
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Configuration Manager 2012 silent install
To run the Setup Downloader from command promt setupdl \MyServerMyShareConfigMgrUpdates /VERIFY: Use this option to verify the files in the download folder, which include language files. Review the ConfigMgrSetup.log file in the root of the C drive for a list of files that are outdated. No files are downloaded when you use this option. /VERIFYLANG: …
Windows Server 2012 deployment via PowerShell
Now with the release of Windows Server 2012, Microsoft has added a huge huge huge improvement in PowerShell, there are about 2400 cmdlets available, and Microsoft have said that there are more to tome.Just to display how easy it is, I thought Id give a walkthrough deployment of a simple Server 2012 farm.Including 1x AD …
GSM monitoring with SCOM 2012 SP1
As a part of Service pack 1 for SCOM 2012, Microsoft has added a new feature called GSM (Global Service Monitoring) It allows you to monitor your services from Microsoft’s datacenters.Lets say for instance that you have a large web-shop in Europe. You can use GSM to monitor your web-shop from various location in Europe, …
What was new at Citrix Synergy Barcelona
Wow! The last couple of days there has been a storm of Twitter activity around the Synergy conference in Barcelona (and for those that weren’t able to attend, including myself) There is a lot of new stuff happening around Citrix these days, so therefore I thought it would be a good idea to try to …