Pushing the Limits of Windows articles

Mark Russinovich (one of the creators of sysinternals) posted on is blog 5 articles on different aspect of Windows performance.

They really technical and very detailed. Definately a MUST READ !

Pushing the Limits of Windows: Physical Memory
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Paged and Nonpaged Pool
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Processes and Threads
Pushing the Limits of Windows: Handles

Slax Module Citrix Receiver 11.000 added

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Hello,

I just created/added a new module to Slax for the 11.000 Citrix Receiver.

With Slax and this module, you will have a bootable USB Disk with access to your XenApp/XenDesktop in 15 minutes !

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Citrix Receiver for iPhone available on AppStore !!!

Just search on “Citrix Receiver” on the AppStore and there you go :)

More info : http://community.citrix.com/display/xa/Citrix+Receiver

Activate NFS Support on QNAP TS-209 II

 

Not difficult but even more easy with the nice post of George Zhu

You can find his tutorial here : George Zhu’s Blog

Citrix plugin (client :) ) for iPhone !!

The iPhone Plugin becomes really concrete now with even a ship schedule !

Right now the ship schedule is first half of ‘09 , but keep those votes and use cases coming and help us increase the priority further !

You can see here a video on the copy/paste feature and the file browser :

Source : Citrix Blog

And HERE you can find the iPhone plugin blog aka Project Braeburn!

Qnap, Windows, DeltaCopy, Rsync and Unicode/UTF-8 : it’s working !

I was used to use robocopy to backup my XP machine to the Qnap NAS and I was really missing rsync’s speed …

Now I finally have a working solution based on rsync with a really nice GUI provided by DeltaCopy and, most important for me, special character support (accents and so on) !!!

Steps are :

  1. Allow remote Rsync server to back up data to NAS on the Qnap’s Remote Replication menu
  2. Install DeltaCopy on your Windows Machine and configure your backup task (plus you can receive a log by mail, schedule the task, add rsync parameters, …)
  3. Replace the cygwin.dll located in the DeltaCopy folder with the one found on Okisoft’s website (with UTF-8 support)
  4. It’s done :)

Enjoy fast and easy backup ;-)

How-to Install the Citrix Client (plugin ;-) ) on Ubuntu

The most downloaded and best rated Citrix tools

Dmitry Vostokov, the famous webmaster of http://www.dumpanalysis.org/, has just posted a summary of the most downnloaded and best rated Citrix Tools !

You can find this list HERE

Process Monitor v2.0 availabe !

From the author :

This major update to Process Monitor adds real-time TCP and UDP monitoring to its existing process, thread, DLL, file system and registry monitoring. You can now see the TCP and UDP activity processes performed, including the operation (e.g. connect, send, receive), local and remote IP addresses and DNS names, and operation transfer lengths. On Windows Vista, Process Monitor also collects thread stacks for network operations.

Very good tool when you need to troubleshoot file/registry access and now some netwoking issues !

Download it from http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/ProcessMonitor.zip

Or use it directly from http://live.sysinternals.com/Procmon.exe

Public Citrix Symbol Server

The Citrix Escalation team is pleased to announce the new Citrix Symbol Server. The Citrix Symbol Server provides on-demand access to public Citrix symbol files from any machine connected to the Internet. Prior to the symbol server, public symbol packages had to be downloaded over the Internet and copied to the local computer before debugging could be performed.  Additionally, customers routinely had to upload large dump files to Citrix’s FTP site before analysis could begin. We are excited to leverage this new resource to decrease problem resolution time and drive seamless cross-vendor collaboration.

Usage

To access debug symbols for the Citrix XenApp products – simply add the Citrix Symbol Server to the symbol path in your debugging tool of choice:

example: SRV*<your local symbol folder>*http://ctxsym.citrix.com/symbols

Reference article CTX118622 – How to Use the Citrix Symbol Server to Obtain Debug Symbols

Introducing Citrix Video Tips

Citrix has created a community site which is dedicated to hosting Citrix related technical tips/demo videos.

Please take a look at the site at http://citrix.utipu.com

  • Larger resolution than YouTube
  • Designed for computer screen captures (you can see the text clearly for example)
  • Display notes
  • User rating, comments, etc.

http://citrix.utipu.com/app/

Disable autoplay of USB drive and put icon on the dekstop

I just used those two tips to :

  1. Disable the scanning of any usb disk inserted asking what do you want to do :
    via policy or the TweakUi Powertoys for XP
  2. Put and remove a shortcut of the drive automatically on the desktop (freeware) : Desk Drive

XenApp Web Interface and Health Monitoring and Recovery Feature

This is a great video from Ashish (Principal Design Engineer at Citrix Systems) explaining how does XenApp application delivery process work through Web Interface. Ashish explains different servers involved in the process and then he dives into health recovery and monitoring feature.

Really interesting to watch, especially to remember every server involved in Web Interface.

Source

Google Talk on the iPhone !

We already had Fring to use Gtalk and other faimilliar IM services but Google just launch an official version of their Google Talk Gadget for the iPhone. Here is the info from the Google Talk Blog :

Attention iPhone owners! You can now chat with all your Google Talk buddies while on the go. Our new version of Google Talk is designed specifically for the iPhone and runs in the iPhone’s browser, so you don’t need to download or install anything. Just visit www.google.com/talk on your iPhone, sign in, and start chatting. And because it is built for the browser, it will work on today’s iPhones as well as on tomorrow’s 3G iPhones.

IIS 6 Resource Kit Tools : SelfSSL

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This is probably not new for a lot of you but I just found it :)

It was always a pain for me to remember the steps to create, request and assign a self signed certificate to a test iis server :)

I just found SelfSSL from the IIS6 toolkit which do everything in a secon with a simple command line.

It even adds the self-signed certificate to the local browser trusted certificates :)

You can find the IIS 6 Ressource Kit Tools : HERE