Posted September 2nd, 2010 by Wim Van Balen
Dear reader,
Citrix nominated our customer Chemtura Corporation for their Innovation Award, which will be presented at Citrix Synergy in Berlin. Twelve (12) companies are nominated, and Citrix customers can vote on the following website.
http://buzz.citrixsynergy.com/vote/innovationaward
Citrix customers are some of the most innovative organizations in the world. Since 2006, the Citrix Innovation Award has recognized the achievements of these remarkable customers. The award program seeks to showcase compelling, real-life examples of industry-leading customers who exemplify business innovation and IT simplicity.
Read on, get inspired by our finalists and vote for your favorite stories of innovation. Voting closes 10 September, with the winner to be announced at Citrix Synergy Berlin, 6-8 October, 2010.
It would be great for Chemtura Corporation if they would win!
You have to vote for three (3) companies, just make sure Chemtura Corporation is one of them 
Thanks!
Raido
Posted July 26th, 2010 by Bob Deleeck
This summer we want to spoil our existing customers as well as new customers giving them the opportunity to meet us and our services while their existing Citrix or Terminal Services environment is analyzed.
The Raido Audit provides an in-depth analysis on the existing Citrix or Terminal Services environment. It will create a clear view on the existing environment and will address the risks and recommendations on several areas such as:
- Virtualization Services
- Deployment Services
- Windows Services
- User Environment
- Client Environment
- Network Services
- Monitoring and Control
- Business Continuity
For every area, the strengths and weaknesses on the existing environment will be addressed as well as recommendations that will improve the quality of the Citrix or Terminal Services environment.
Please download the full Raido Audit Promo – Summer 2010 flyer here
Posted July 22nd, 2010 by Bob Deleeck
Over the coming months, you will notice some positive changes in the Raido branding which we employ to help further define and enhance our unique customer relationship.
Posted June 4th, 2010 by Frank Vandebergh
Windows 2008 R2 features the same new taskbar as Windows 7. This includes the ability to ‘pin’ items to the taskbar.
For some reason? Microsoft decided to pin “Server Manager” and “PowerShell” for all users, also on a 2008 R2 terminal server.
Note: this post was updated on 03-Aug-2010. See below.
How can you change this behaviour ? You would think:
- Change it by removing / adding icons to a directory in a default user profile NOT
- Change it by modifying a mandatory profile.. NOT
- Group Policies or Group Policy Preferences NOT
The only way according to Microsoft is to use group policy to disable pinned taskbar items alltogether. This means there are no items visible and users can’t add them themselves.
Maybe the most suitable workaround found by the community is by modifying the permissions on 2 start menu shortcuts in the all users profile. This will prevent them from being pinned. You can find more information here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/976333ab-cac0-417b-b477-64f4fad9d413#1fb3139e-2c3e-4cb7-9887-ea35901ef062
UPDATE:
Raido now has a solution to:
- Remove the default pinned items or set other items as default
- Saving and restoring users pinned items and refreshing them during logon, called RaidoRefresh
Contact us for more information!
Tags: 2008 R2, Pin, powershell, Server Manager, Taskbar
Posted May 30th, 2010 by Wim Van Balen
Posted May 26th, 2010 by Frank Vandebergh
Symptons: Some MMC based consoles are slow to start. For example the Citrix Access Management Console takes almost 30 seconds before it starts loading.
Cause: .Net framework is trying to validate authenticode signatures in the mmc plugin files.
Resolution:
-Make sure .Net Framework 2.0 is fully updated or install the following hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936707/en-us
-Create a file called mmc.exe.config in the system32 directory with these contents:
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<configuration>
<runtime>
<generatePublisherEvidence enabled=”false” />
</runtime>
</configuration>
Tags: access management console, delay, MMC, Slow
Posted March 11th, 2010 by Frank Vandebergh
The Raido Workflow Activity Library is now available from within Citrix Workflow Studio itself! (Community tab).
Furthermore, the library was updated to include the following workflow activities:
- Microsoft App-V: Check if the App-V client is installed and return installed version
- Microsoft App-V: Pre-Load all applications into the client cache
- Networking: Check a TCP port if a service is listening (for example check a web server on port 80)
- Windows: Create a Share
- Windows: Set NTFS security (folder or file level)
- Windows: Remove NTFS security (folder or file level)
- Windows: Get Environment variable
- Windows: Set Environment variable
- Windows: Install MSI / MST: Unattended installation of .MSI files.
- Windows: Read INI File: Read specified parameter from an INI file
More information on this page: http://community.citrix.com/display/wf/Raido+Activity+Library
Tags: activity, App-V, Citrix, library
Posted March 2nd, 2010 by Frank Vandebergh
When deploying Citrix Branch Repeater appliances to optimize the WAN infrastructure, the user experience for the remote site users will increase a lot. However, it is also important to optimize your clients to make more efficient use of the available bandwidth. We found out that setting some registry settings on the client pc’s has a big impact on the performance when browsing central file shares. Also this can prevent some bugs. In the case of one of our customers, without these tweaks sometimes not all folders where shown when browsing a network share.
There is a good summary of these settings, and an ADM template 
, available at the Sepago Blog here.
Posted February 14th, 2010 by Bob Deleeck
Need access to the Repeater CLI ? I did and could not get in …
Well REMEMBER that you need to login with the User “cli” first .. (Case Sensitive !), password is NULL,Nothing, zipp … Then you can login with the Web Interface defined administrator users…
This “Good To Know” just to save you time, time it took me to figure out here was something wrong, and find the solution in chapter 8.1 on page 271 of the User Guide.
UPDATE ! Need Command Line Interface access on a Branch Repeater with Windows ? Well us the exact same trick !
Tags: Branch Repeater, Citrix, CLI, raido, Repeater, SSH, WANScaler
Posted February 10th, 2010 by Bob Deleeck
AppV_DeployApp and AppV_PublishApp
Problem:
You want to deploy apps to a Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Session Host, but don’t want to install the full infrastructure and need per-user publishing and “Active Upgrade” capabilities.
Or you want to deploy apps once in a VDI master image (shared link clone) without a full infrastrucure and with those capabilities.
Answer:
AppV_DeployApp and AppV_PublishApp are FREE tools that allow the features you need without the extra back-end servers. All you need is a file share and an Active Directory OU for your Virtual Applications.
The FREE version of these tools are great for a “greenfield” deployments of App-V that can follow the expected naming conventions. Enterprises wishing to convert their existing deployment may want to request a customized version of these tools so that existing OU or Content Shares may be used without modification.
These tools are also great for quick-testing of your sequenced packages.
Check out http://bit.ly/cX6jE4
Tags: App-V, raido, Tim Mangan
