Project Imagineering ← Experiences in IT Infrastructure

Citrix Storefront – Slow Startup

May

2013

After implementing StoreFront as a POC, we had issues with the first logon of the day taking forever. The StoreFront web app would take forever to load and to receiver clients this came through as failed logons or hangs. Found the following: http://blog.whatwoulddando.com/tag/citrix-receiver-storefront-slow/ which shows how to edit aspnet.config and add: <runtime> <generatePublisherEvidence enabled=”false”/> ...

Citrix Sharefile Sync: invalid username or password

May

2013

Consider the following: You install and configure Sharefile Sync You uninstall the app You reinstall the app, then try to reconfigure You receive an error “invalid username or password” when configuring. It appears this issue is due to missing proxy settings. Unfortunately you cannot access preferences to change them until you have configured sharefile ...

Retro City Rampage – Final Boss

Apr

2013

I have just finished Retro City Rampage – available on a number of devices and services (including Steam). The difficulty on the last 3 stages went from normal to bananas and was immensely frustrating, but none so much as the final boss. You are in a car driving towards the horizon, Buttnick is a giant ...

CloudGateway – Packaging iOS Apps – @WorkMail, @WorkWeb

Mar

2013

We are currently installing CloudGateway – one part of Citrix’s new XenMobile stack. Essentially it is a combination of Access Gateway + AppController + Storefront to deliver iOS and Android applications to devices in a secure, managed way. There is a significant amount of configuring required at an infrastructure level. AppController is the easiest as ...

Photos in Outlook 2010/Exchange 2010

Mar

2013

One of the cool new features in Outlook 2010 is the use of contact photos. These show up either at the top of bottom of messages and when viewing contacts. These pictures can be populated from a number of sources: 1. Manually adding photos to your contacts 2. Outlook Social Connector (pulls from facebook etc) ...

iPhone/iPad – incorrect unread email count

Mar

2013

Had an issue with a user’s iPhone today – their Exchange account showed 9 unread messages, when in fact there were only 2 in there (confirmed when you open the inbox on the device and by checking their Outlook client). Issue was confined to that user, so we did some googling. Turns out it’s a ...

Setting Out of Office for another User using Exchange Control Panel

Mar

2013

A handy feature in Exchange 2010 is the Exchange Control Panel – a web app located at https://yourexchange/ecp. Logging in as a standard user allows you to configure things like your Out of Office, ActiveSync settings etc. Very Handy. A very cool thing for helpdesks is with the correct permissions, it can be used to ...

Your next PC upgrade should be…. an SSD!

Mar

2013

Having a career in IT (and doing at as a hobby) you become very familiar with the PC upgrade Cycle: 1. New PC – WOOO this is amazing, super fast! 2. A few months later – Ok, this is fine, I’m happy 3. A few months later – My PC SUCKS, this is slow, time ...

Cannot directly book a resource for this meeting.

Feb

2013

We are currently in the tail end of an Exchange 2003->2010 migration. All has gone incredibly well so far, so I was a bit surprised when the CIO’s PA was suddenly unable to book a meeting, instead receiving a pop up box with the incredibly helpful error: “Cannot directly book a resource for this meeting”. ...