It has been said that you can avoid this by making sure to use the ASCII mode when you transfer files to Linux. If you are unable to avoid it, you can use the following to get rid of the ^M at the end of each line:
Open the file using “VI”
Now do the following:
:%s/.$// <enter> this will remove the last character at the end of each line!
:wq! to write and exit the editor!
All set..!
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TAGS: remove, ^M, Linux, VI,

In a future blogpost I’ll show an easy way to remove an application from a Terminal Server when running the Lightweight version of App-v. The first thing I wanted to know was, what are the exact names of the App-v applications listed on a computer or a server? 
So I created a small powershell script that lists the Applications that the App-V client knows of. Besides having Powershell installed on your machine, you need permissions to access the registry of the computer you are querying.
So go-ahead,give it a try in your test environment(use at your own risk!) and visit the Virtualistic Download section to download the script.
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TAGS App-V, Application List, Script, Powershell

The Yammer desktop application is an Adobe Air application. So after you downloaded the Yammer.air package, download Adobe Air.
As I always say when doing a How-To: By no means, is this THE way to sequence this application, just the way I did it. Your mileage may vary. Use at your own risk etc. etc. etc. (BTW I think you can also use this tutorial for the most part if you are running a Terminal Server environment)
Fasten your seatbelts, here we go:
1) Make sure your App-V sequencer machine has a direct connection to the Internet (this will speed up the installation process somewhat). Place the Adobe Air installer and Yammer package on the sequencer machine before you start.
2) Create a new App-V package, when in Monitoring mode, start the Adobe Air Installer. You can’t tell it where to install. Just let it do its thing.

3) Now double-click the Yammer.air package and select the “Adobe Air Application Installer”

4) Install the package to your asset drive. (NOTE: The installer dumps a folder called “Yammer” behind the installation path so you don’t have to)
5) Now comes the tricky part: Yammer needs to authorize itself for each user. If I would start Yammer during the monitoring phase, the authorization process would take place inside the package which would..well uh, not be a good thing.
6) So stop the monitoring phase and finish the rest of the wizards as you would (ab)normally do. (Don’t start the Yammer Application after you’ve created the shortcut)
7) After you’ve completed the wizards, make sure to delete the following folders from your Files and the VFS Tab: (Basically the whole APPDATA Folder)
 
8 ) Now when you run the App-v package and start the Yammer application for the first time, you need to authorize it.
 
Yammer places some files in your
%appdata%\Adobe\Air\ELS\Yammer.bla\ folder

It then opens IE and takes you to the Yammer website where you have to authorize the application. Copy-paste the code in the box under step 2 to complete the authorization process.
9) The files in your %appdata%\..\yammer folder are now signed. If you have redirected your users’ %appdata% to their home directory, you are done for the most part. 
If you haven’t, you need to make sure that these signature files are saved for that user and the files need to be in place the next time you start the desktop application or else the authorization process will restart. (so start scripting!)
EULA AND DISABLE ADOBE AIR UPDATES
If you don’t want to your users to see the Adobe EULA screen or Adobe Air Updates do the following:
Place 2 empty files called: eulaAccepted and updateDisabled in the
%appdata%\Adobe\Air folder of your users.

DISABLE YAMMER UPDATES
To disable Yammer.air updates you need to edit and distribute a file called: config.xml which should be located in the
My Documents\Yammer\YammerDesktop folder of your users.
Open the config.xml and change <updates>true</updates> to <updates>false</updates>
That’s all for now guys. I hope you found this How-To useful..!
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TAGS: App-V, How-to, Sequence, Yammer, Adobe AIR

A few years back, Patrick Rouse wrote an excellent 2-part article on How To Install and Configure Citrix Web Interface 4.6 and Citrix Secure Gateway on the same server:
part 1
part 2
If you follow these articles to a tee, you will end up with a working CSG/WI environment.
But one day, your brilliant co-worker needs port 443 to test another application from the outside and has already put his hand on the "off" switch of your CSG server. Instead of following your first instinct:

Let’s try to get the CSG to relocate to another port:
First start the CSG configuration tool and go trough the options and pause here:

Pick a port number that you know will work for you!
Then finish all the follow-up screens which will restart the CSG services at the end.

Next up is to alter the 443 port forward settings in your firewall and change them to your newly appointed port.

One may think that was all she wrote…
But if you try to login to your WI, everything will look fine at first. You login, see a list of your apps but when you try to start an application you’ll probably get the following error:

There is no Citrix SSL server configured on the specified address

Ok, now what?
Go to the folder where you installed the Web Interface (C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Citrix\XenApp\conf or similar)
and open the WebInterface.conf file with notepad and start a search for: CSG_ServerPort
Heyyyyy, that’s not the correct port! Change the portnumber to your newly chosen port, save the file, do a iisreset and you should be good to go!
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TAGS: How to, Run, CSG on different port, no Citrix SSL server configured on the specified address, 443

I was pretty stoked after the first day. the helpdesk hadn’t been swarmed on, the App-V Streaming server did not crash and there were no flames coming out of the Terminal Servers. (As an sysadmin you quickly learn to be happy with the small things in life)

The second day, the weather changed and so did my luck.

Our Helpdesk started receiving reports from a few users that they were unable to start a certain application they got kicked from.  The App would throw a Dr Watson error and simply not start. Sometimes it would help if the user logged off and on and by chance landed on another server (which makes sense). 
The “getting kicked out” part, was something we had even before we ever worked with SoftGrid but unable to login to this App was new)

The first thing I did was make a complete new package with the newest sequencer out there. (the current Package worked without issue during testing but I wasn’t taking any chances).
The next day, the Helpdesk still reported similar issues with this app. I started turning over rocks in the App-V forums and the MS KB’s but no luck until I found this KB. YES!!! There were actual fixes for applications that all of a sudden would not start:

In some scenarios, an application may not start, and you receive a DLL error or a "File Not Found" error. This issue is most likely to occur on a multiprocessor computer.
or
A virtual application that calls the RegQueryMultipleValues function may experience unexpected errors or cannot start. For example, you receive error messages when you start or shutdown the Trapeze application. Then, the application does not work correctly

But OH NO….this is the hotfix 006 for App-V 4.5 CU1 where is the hotfix for 4.5 SP1 WTF? It’s not there, now what? Wow dude that means I’m stuck!

As some people really started to get annoyed, I deployed this “older/newer” App-V 4.5 CU1 with hotfix006 on a couple of servers and tested as much as I could. I then pointed the critical apps to these servers so see what would happen with this “older/newer” App-V Client.
Because the signs were good I then sat down with our IT manager and tried explaining this whole new Microsoft concept of a “older-client-with-a-newer-hotfix-which-turns-it into-a-newer-client-compared-to-what-we-have”.
Long story short: I decided to jump off what was left of my 4.5 SP1 ship and started swimming towards the 4.5 CU1 with hotfix006 shore.
It’s beyond me why Microsoft has chosen a path where customers are forced to choose between two clients within one product and then leave everybody in the dark about what the future holds for both clients. I thought installing the latest greatest version would be a safe bet..forget about it!

I made sure to leave my feedback on the Microsoft App-V forum hoping that someday, upgrading mission critical software doesn’t make you feel like when you were a little kid around Christmas.
You would get this (what you thought to be) awesome toy which in turn would die on you after a couple of days as a way of saying thanks for your enthusiasm…
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TAGS: App-V SP1, upgrade, App-V CU1 hotfix, Self-Referential Mapping found,

last friday at the Dutch VMUG 2009. Bouke has been kind enough to put his presentation online. You can find it here!

VMUG 2009 Opening video by Viktor vd Berg from Virtualistic.nl on Vimeo.

Following keynote of Richard Garsthagen..doing his missionary work…
explaining the vision of VMWare in all areas.
Shooting a small video of Richard

Richard Garsthagen During VMUG 2009 from Virtualistic.nl on Vimeo.

Richard shows us the introduction of VM KB TV:
http://blogs.vmware.com/kbtv
and as a last plug
http://vmware.xfl.nl for technical dutch vmware webinars

10:50 Following Eric Sloof during a excellent session about EcoShell..sorry no video for this one, visit the VMUG next year
Hoping that all of Eric’s EcoShell tips also work on 3.5
Battery is almost dead..signing off for now..

11:55 Went to the Project VRC, some very surprising results in their second phase of testing. Keep a close eye on the Project VRC site for the results and comparison between Hyper-V, XEN Server and VSphere.  Jeroen told the audience that their VSI tool will receive an update to version 2.1 in the next week or so.

13:00 Lunch

Lunch time at VMUG 2009 from Virtualistic.nl on Vimeo.

13:30 Currently following Viktor and his session about VMWare distributed Virtual Switches.

14: 15 Viktor is already wrapping up his session..I’m really looking forward to the next session from Bouke: Performance Troubleshooting HOWTO.  I was amazed to see that some employees from VMWare did not know who Bouke was.  In my opinion Bouke should have been a vExpert even before there ever was a vExpert title..! (so please take notice for the upcoming vExpert elections VMWare!)
14:56 Bouke’s session is kick-ass!

Final Minutes of Bouke’s session at VMUG 2009 from Virtualistic.nl on Vimeo.

16:00 Following Luc Dekens in session about PowerCLI and the SDK. 

16:18 Thanks to the guys at VMGuru for plugging my site

16:30 Luc’s demo video’s are not playing as planned..he’s kicking Firefox around without result so far..battery almost empty so saving a little juice in case I need it later on.
16:40 somebody downloaded videolan player through his phone..watching video’s now

I copied the 6.5.3 Workstation executable next to the 5.5.3 executable and my eye was drawn to the file size of both files:

Wow! 6.5.3 is about 5.5 times the size compared to Workstation 5.5.3!
But has Workstation become 5 times better when you compare it to the 5.5 days? In other words: has VMWare Workstation grown up to become a donut-eating-Oprah-watching-fat-lady over the years or is it just an 5.5 times increase of features..you decide!

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