Helge Klein

Script Deletes Orphaned Printer Ports

2011-07-05T15:32:38Z

The script published in this article was kindly contributed by Bo Riis, a sysadmin working at Danish hosting company dandomain . Here is what he writes about it: Recently I had some issues with MS Office getting really slow on some of our customers' Read More......(read more)

PowerShell Script Switches Printer Configurations Between Sites

2011-06-22T14:28:14Z

Attending the community conference PubForum E2E Conference has many benefits, the biggest is in my opinion getting to know many very talented and very nice people. One of them, Ton de Vreede, recently sent me a PowerShell script he had written which I Read More......(read more)

Announcing SetACL Studio - The Power of SetACL in a Great UI

2011-06-15T21:22:53Z

SetACL is well-known as a powerful and versatile tool for managing permissions in nearly all corners of the Windows operating system. In fact it is so powerful that the command-line options may be overwhelming at first. But, hey, power comes at a price Read More......(read more)

Profile Migrator is Part of Project Morpheus

2011-05-20T09:08:55Z

Have you heard of Project Morpheus? Searching for it, one could get the idea that it is rocket science: Well, Citrix's Project Morpheus isn't. It is a demo environment at Synergy San Francisco. Every attendee can connect and, as Citrix calls it Read More......(read more)

FastCopy - Free File Copy Tool Runs Circles Around Explorer

2011-05-17T11:06:31Z

When it comes to copying files, Windows Explorer may probably be called reliable, but fast it is not. After the rewrite of the copy routines in Vista had caused much customer dissatisfaction, Microsoft rewrote the copy dialog again for Windows 7. But Read More......(read more)

New and Free: Helge's Profile Toolkit

2011-05-16T19:45:29Z

The past weekend I presented my user profile toolkit at PubForum the E2E Conference. The toolkit is a collection of free tools, tips and scripts that help you create/maintain/delete user profiles. Some of the tools I have written myself (Delprof2), others Read More......(read more)

The Unmanageable File Server

2011-05-05T19:30:23Z

I had an interesting little case to solve at home recently when my headless file server suddenly would not accept RDP connections any more. It still worked flawlessly as a file server, so I ignored the problem for a while. The issue became urgent when Read More......(read more)

New & free: Delprof2 - User Profile Deletion Tool

2011-05-01T19:10:02Z

Delprof2 is the inofficial successor to Microsoft's Delprof which does not work with operating systems newer than Windows XP. Here are the main facts: Delprof2 is free to use, commercially or otherwise Delprof2 is syntax compatible to the original Read More......(read more)

Differences Between Citrix Profile Management and Immidio Flex Profiles

2011-04-25T20:53:27Z

From time to time I get asked about the differences between Citrix's and Immidio's profile management products. Here are some common questions along with my answers. Can the product be used to provide a single profile on multiple platforms? Citrix Read More......(read more)

I Did Not Expect the Wilderness to be so ... Wild

2011-02-28T20:34:12Z

I was reminded of this movie quote when I stumbled across the following cry for help in a developer's forum: Whenever I connect to customer site with Citrix Xenapp it takes me around 15-20 minutes for the Remote Desktop Prompt to come up, while for Read More......(read more)

Mandatory Profiles – Insecure by Default?

2010-12-13T11:20:38Z

Mandatory profiles are generally considered fast and secure because they usually are small in size and cannot be modified by the user. While that is true – mandatory profiles stay pristine indefinitely – there is more to security than read-only access Read More......(read more)

Q&A: How to Modify Permissions on Administrative Shares

2010-12-07T20:10:05Z

Question by reader Kendra: I stumbled upon your blog/profile while I was looking for options to lockdown my administrative shares. Maybe you can help me. I'm a Network Administrator for an aerospace / engineering firm where users need administrative Read More......(read more)

How to Migrate User State and Data from XP to Windows 7 - Automatically

2010-09-29T15:20:23Z

Life could be so easy for technicians tasked with rolling out Windows 7. Build an automatic installation system, flip the switch, done. That is, if the users did not have PCs before. If they did, which they very probably had, there is a thing called "user Read More......(read more)

How to Modify Default Share Permissions and Other Tweaks

2010-07-23T20:48:39Z

NTFS permissions are stored in the file system, that is well known. But where are share permissions stored? As so often with Windows: in the registry. Network shares are defined by only a handful of relatively simple registry entries stored in the server Read More......(read more)

Registry Tricks

2010-06-21T09:43:51Z

Here are some pretty cool ways to work with the Windows registry. Regedit Start multiple instances of Regedit by appending the command-line parameter -m, e.g.: regedit -m. REG Files While there is no API function to create .REG files , Windows includes Read More......(read more)