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Change Location of User Profile Folders in Registry

I love to move my Windows profile folders from common, Microsoft-preset folders to my desired folders. And occasionally, out of stupidity, I mistakenly deleted the active folders, rather than the previous folders, which resulting to below error : <Path> refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer, or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network, and then try again. If it still cannot be located, the information might have been moved to a different location. As always, it is not hard to resolve this issue. However, it involves registry changes, therefore do it cautiously.  Open regedit  navigate to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer  There are 2 parts here :  Shell Folders User Shell Folders Shell Folders is designed to be used by Windows NT and earlier. It is necessary not to delete this folder.

Citrix Group Policy Management Console

It is a common practice to have a management server, with most (if not all) consoles installed on it. the purpose of this practice are to consolidate the management consoles into centralized servers, and reduce un-needed resources utilization on target servers (e.g : SQL, AppSense, Citrix Delivery Controller, VMware vCenter).  One component that I love to have in my management server is Citrix GPMC. I prefer to configure my Citrix policies via GPO, rather than Citrix Policies. One main reason is to consolidate all policies into a single, centralized location.  This is what you can see from AD server or normal servers/machines without Citrix GPMC installed / enabled. This is what you can see from Citrix servers with GPMC installed / enabled. Now, how to install Citrix GPMC :   Download the installers from here : x86 : http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX142463#download x64 : http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX142464#download  Right click at the installer, an

Configure HTTPS authentication to CA Server

In previous post , I demonstrated steps to install a Certificate Authority server as well as enabling Web enrollment. All good so far. However, when we tried to proceed with web enrollment, below message box appeared : In order to complete certificate enrollment, the Web site for the CA must be configured to use HTTPS authentication. To make it worst (not really), if we tried to access to the web page by using HTTPS, no page can be displayed.  Luckily, Microsoft has compiled all needed steps on how to get it resolved, as posted here . Implementing SSL on a Web site in the domain with an Enterprise CA The following example will assume that you have an Enterprise CA from which to issue certificates. Further, the assumption is that you have a Certification Authority Web Enrollment pages installed, either on that CA or on another computer in the domain. This example will walk through the steps necessary to do the following: Configure an appropriate certificate template for SSL

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Citrix Studio - Change Hypervisor Connection

In Citrix Studio, it is possible to create a new hypervisor connection, and move the VMs to that new connection. The reason new connection be created and we move VMs to that connection can be varies – from commissioning new vCentre server to changing to a new hypervisor platform (from Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware vSphere). This post will explain on how to change the connection from current to a new one. The connection needs to be already established prior to implementation of this steps.  RDP to Citrix Studio server, and launch PowerShell . Add Citrix snap-in by following below command. Command : asnp citrix* Identify current and to be used Broker Connection IDs by using below command. In this example, I want to change  from H ypervisor Connection UID 1 to Hypervisor Connection UID  3 Command : get-BrokerHypervisorConnection