Syndicated Industry Blogs from around the Web - Helge Klein

Script Deletes Orphaned Printer Ports

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'...

Published Jul 05 2011 by Helge Klein , 673 views, 0 comments

PowerShell Script Switches Printer Configurations Between Sites

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...

Published Jun 22 2011 by Helge Klein , 629 views, 0 comments

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

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...

Published Jun 15 2011 by Helge Klein , 742 views, 0 comments

Profile Migrator is Part of Project Morpheus

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...

Published May 20 2011 by Helge Klein , 843 views, 0 comments

FastCopy - Free File Copy Tool Runs Circles Around Explorer

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...

Published May 17 2011 by Helge Klein , 657 views, 0 comments

New and Free: Helge's Profile Toolkit

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...

Published May 16 2011 by Helge Klein , 640 views, 0 comments

The Unmanageable File Server

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...

Published May 05 2011 by Helge Klein , 736 views, 0 comments

New & free: Delprof2 - User Profile Deletion Tool

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...

Published May 01 2011 by Helge Klein , 1,223 views, 0 comments

Differences Between Citrix Profile Management and Immidio Flex Profiles

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...

Published Apr 25 2011 by Helge Klein , 1,327 views, 0 comments

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

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...

Published Feb 28 2011 by Helge Klein , 493 views, 0 comments

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