Screen Saver appears in Published applications

The screen saver appears if the applications are not launched as seamless from the citrix client. “By design, Citrix disables screen savers for published applications. Active screen savers can contribute towards a performance hit to bandwidth and server resources in general.” Citrix does not prevent screen savers from appearing in a seamless session; it disables screen…

Backing up & Restoring exchange certificates

There are two ways to backup your OWA certificates. 1. Thru certificates MMC Snapin Open mmc & add certificates snapin as Local machine. Click on the certificate that you want to backup & export it follow the wizard select export private key  & enter the password. 2. Thru IIS go to directory security tab click…

Clustering Best Practice

Clustering best practice Network: Private Network: Atleast 150 ms ping response time Use TCPIP Only No DNS, No default gateway,No wins Static ip address Disable Netbios No NIC Teaming Public Network: Use atleast two DNS servers Teaming is not rrecommended If teaming is used confugure it after configuring clustering Windows Level: No password policies for cluster…

Windows Clustering

There are four types of Clustering topologies:- 1.  Single instance One node in cluster owns all the resources 2.  Multi-instance (some times called as active-active) One Virtual server in a cluster owns some of the resource groups and another virtual server owns other resource groups. At any one time, the virtual servers themselves can be…

FSMO thru Command line

For those geeks that want to know everything from command line, DSQUERY is of great help. For example: Finding the PDC in the domain:- dsquery server -hasfsmo pdc Finding the RID in the domain:- dsquery server -hasfsmo pdc Finding the Infrastructure master in the domain:- dsquery server -hasfsmo infr For schema & domain naming roles keywords are schema…