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Create a Microsoft Failover Cluster on Nutanix

This simple blog post will show you how to create a Microsoft Failover Cluster on Nutanix. (Focussing only on the witness disk). There are some blogposts available already: https://next.nutanix.com/installation-configuration-23/microsoft-failover-cluster-msft-on-nutanix-38573 https://www.vmwaremine.com/2015/09/04/deploy-microsoft-failover-cluster-on-nutanix/ But not one is showing the real steps for the witness disk. So I decided to share this with you. Read more…

By Jeroen Tielen, 1 year ago

Citrix

PowerShell script to detect CWA version and notify end user

Update 10-05-2021: Updated the script to include XenApp sessions as well. And removed some typo’s. If you are running Microsoft Teams in a Citrix environment you know you need to have the correct version of the Citrix Workspace App (CWA). If the version is to old users don’t have an Read more…

By Jeroen Tielen, 2 yearsMarch 8, 2021 ago

Microsoft User Profile Disks

Add username textfile to Microsoft User Profile Disks fileshare

When using Microsoft User Profile Disks you also know the tool Sidder: https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Sidder-Quickly-see-which-fa6360b3 This tool will show the username who belongs the the User Profile Disk. I’ve found this not so conveniant as you must run it every time you want to know the username. So I dusted off my powershell Read more…

By Jeroen Tielen, 5 yearsMarch 4, 2018 ago

Microsoft User Profile Disks

Microsoft User Profile Disks Policy Template

When using Microsoft User Profile Disks within XenApp/XenDesktop environment you always ending up creating some scripts to enable this. Trond created a nice article howto configure this: https://xenappblog.com/2016/user-profile-disk-citrix/ But I want a bit more flexiblity to the configuation without changing the startup script every time. I’ve created a Group Policy Template Read more…

By Jeroen Tielen, 5 yearsMarch 2, 2018 ago

Windows 8

Howto create a Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8 Mandatory Profile

In this blog post I’m trying to explain how-to create a mandatory profile for Server 2012 and Windows 8. This is only for a clean windows installation. The Microsoft best practices are saying that you need to update the Mandatory profile after each software installation/update on the system.

The Test User

First we create a user named: Manny. This user is used to create the profile. You can name it any way you want. Don’t give it any profile. You can create a local user, but my test machine is also a domain controller, so I only can create an AD user.

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By Jeroen Tielen, 11 yearsJuly 10, 2012 ago