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Office 2007 Roaming QAT Quick Access Toolbar

Feb 18

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In our setup i am using roaming profiles in my Citrix XenApp setup since users are load balanced over multiple xenapp servers. And this time i really thought that i had done everything i could do for the end users (preserving their data,settings etc) but once again – i were wrong.

It seems that if you use the quick access toolbar in eg. Word, those settings will be appended to C:\Users\john\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\word.qat (etc)

which is local and not roaming – and therefore wont be updated on your UserProfiles network share.

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pleasing your mac mini to eject your dvd

Feb 16

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First off, theres a million ways to eject the dvd drive if its stuck, so go google if this article isnt enough for you.

ive been all the way around from pressing multiple keys at boot up, clicking the left mouse button, etc etc etc.

and since im using Windows 7 (go hate on me mac fanboys) i can´t use various os x ways.

anyway, when trying to eject your cd/dvd from windows, it pops up with a message i forgot all about (some weird error) and its just impossible to eject it.

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Enabling Citrix users to launch streamed applications from within published explorer.

Feb 2

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Scenario ->

1) Explorer.exe is published for your users to use (browsing shared folders, private folders, etc)

2) Main part of Office 2007 is installed locally on your golden XenApp image (win2k8)

3) A few applications like Visio, OneNote, Project are profiled and streamed to server

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Troubleshooting keyboard layout/language settings in a citrix environment.

Feb 2

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In this setup, i had a mix of normal pc’s and a bunch of new mac (airbooks) which ran both snow leopard and Windows 7.

It started out with the some users complaining about their danish published office applications switched to using US keyboard layout

and naturally i started testing (logged on with same user account) and found no issues at all. We tested a bit, playing around with the language bar

and the local region settings, and we found out that on the airbooks, on windows 7, it had 2 keyboard layouts installed (da-dk, and danish-apple)

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1406 Error – Could not write value InstallPath to key\Software…

Dec 9

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I recently tried to install vSphere PowerCLI from VMware on my Windows 7 64-bit installation.

and i was met with the error message above.

theres probably multiple answers to solving this problem. some say that you need to run it as administrator permissions (doh) and some want you to change permissions on the

registry vmware path.

what almost worked for me was deleting the reg entry “HKLM\Software\VMware Inc” and then just retrying with the installation. i however, had to delete the entry

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\VMware, Inc.” for it to work.

Google Apps – adding hosted e-mail to pidgin.

May 7

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This is pretty much simple for most people, however i tend to wipe the howto from my memory each time i reinstall pidgin.

so heres the basic setup (this does not include signing up your gtalk account)

Procotol: XMPP/Gtalk

Username: Dennis
Domain: annoying.dk
Resource: Empty
Password: mypassword (god,love,sex…)
Local alias (nickname)

Under Advance, keep it simple.

No checkmarks required in the first 3 boxes.

Connect port: 5222
Connect server: talk.google.com

bash script produces [cron] defunct

Mar 7

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Even through im a shitty scripter and my scripts can make people tear their eyes out, i usually make it stable and problem-free.

the funny thing was that it was actually working great, running it from the shell. but setting it up in crontab – it just didnt run the script fully.

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Cant boot system after installing mdadm

Mar 7

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So, a few weeks ago i had a system crash again. this time i finally got some decent errors that could turn it into a RMA case and get it replaces. since i couldnt wait for the new disk

i decided to use an old disk.

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mkinitrd missing when compiling Rocketraid 2340 drivers

Mar 7

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Its been a while since i last reinstalled my server, but my system disk took the decision for me (sounding my gf when she sings..) so i repaced it with a new disk.

after installing everything, i had to download the rocketraid drivers for my raid controller and compile it, which went like this..

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