Richard Parmiter

Citrix Recevier for iPad shows “Error” but Reciever for Android works

RP — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:20:45 +0000

Came across this interesting problem today. Users connecting to a XenApp deployment via a Netscaler 9.3 & CAG Enterprise Edition using the Citrix receiver for iPad and Android. Web Interface for Netscaler was used to provide the XenApp services site. The Android receiver worked as expected but the iPhone/iPad receiver did not enumerate the apps. [...]

Impersonate other browsers with Chrome

RP — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:39:49 +0000

When testing access scenarios it is useful to impersonate other browers such as Safari or Mobile Safari from a Windows PC. This can be done with Chrome using the following syntax when launching the app. This example impersonates the mobile safari browser on an iPhone. chrome.exe --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3" There are many "user-agent" strings that can be added to this syntax and a google search should discover the correct one required.

Dell DRAC – Reset

RP — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:24:07 +0000

The Dell DRAC remote management capability often breaks in my experience, and the following can be done to reset it. SSH to the DRAC address using Putty (or a similar SSH app) Login using DRAC credentials Run the following command: racadm racreset The DRAC component will be reset and should remove any issues with it..

Move VM from Hyper-V to XenServer

RP — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:22:46 +0000

There is a way to move a virtual machine from Hyper-V to XenServer without the need for XenConvert. On Hyper-V do the following: Power off the VM Backup or migrate to a CIFS share The backup or CIFS share will include the VHD files for the hard disks (one VHD per virtual hard disk) On [...]

Wyse Xenith Configuration file

RP — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:06:42 +0000

The Wyse Xenith thin client device can be automatically configured. A DHCP entry can be configured to point the device to a url where is picks up an .ini file with the options set. Here is a sample xen.ini file: ;************************************************************************* ;* Sample INI file (rename to xen.ini) * ;* (Refer to Admin Guide for [...]