When setting up a split scope DNS solution you may want to delay the offer of IP addresses from the 20% scope so that it acts as a true standby. To do this, just click on the advanced tab on the scope and set the subnt delay value.
Category: Tips
Opening an Explorer session from within Powershell
If you want to make the move to replacing a command prompt with t he powershell prompt you may at times want to open an explorer session from the powershell command line.
To do this just type ii.
If you want to open explorer at a specific location just enter that location e.g.
ii c:MyFolder
SSL Security Check
Nice little wizard at https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html if you want to check how secure you’re SSL protected web site is
Let Me Get That For You
Ever wanted to send someone a search term ? Well, here’s a fun way to do it. Simply use http://lmgtfy.com/?q= followed by your search term. For example:
Quick Access to System Properties
Tired of having to go around the houses to look at the system properties on a server or workstation ? The quickest way to gain access is to use the built-in shortcuts. Just enter the below at the start menu search box to gain fast access:
Advanced Tab – systempropertiesadvanced
Remote Tab – systempropertiesremote
Hardware Tab – systempropertieshardware
Computer Name Tab – systempropertiescomputername
System Protection Tab – systempropertiesprotection
Data Execution Prevention – systempropertiesdataexecutionprevention
Performance Options – systempropertiesperformance
Of course, you don’t have to remember all of the above, just using systempropertiesadvanced will get you straight to a single tab so that you can navigate from there.
List Users who have logged on to XenApp
Want to know who has logged on to your Citrix server ?
You can just look in the security log in event viewer and filter down but it’s so much easier using the command line. Just open up a cmd prompt and enter
auditlog (all one word)
This will let you list all the sessions from the event log and even pipe them out to a text file for later analysis or reporting.
Changing the icon used for folders
When building a desktop image you may want to have some corporate folders which you want to “stand out” from the others and also let users know what the folder should be used for. For example, you may place folders in the “All Users” menu folder or within the users “My Documents” folder.
This can be accomplished by changing the folders icon and adding a tool tip so that a hint appears if a user hovers their mouse over the folder. This is relatively simple to achieve.
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Create the folder. I have create done called “RegistryTemplates”
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Mark the folder as a system folder. Open a command prompt and mark the folder as a system folder using attrib +s PathFolderName
- Create a text file and name it Desktop.ini. Use Notepad to create this file and ensure it is saved in Unicode format. Also, enclose the file name in quotation marks to ensure that the.txt extension isn’t applied.
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Edit the Desktop.ini file created (by double clicking on it). Add a section header
[.ShellClassInfo]
- Then enter values to inform the file system how to display the folder.
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Entry |
Value |
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ConfirmFileOp |
Set this entry to 0 to avoid a “You Are Deleting a System Folder” warning when deleting or moving the folder. |
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NoSharing |
Not supported under Windows Vista or later. Set this entry to 1 to prevent the folder from being shared. |
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IconFile |
If you want to specify a custom icon for the folder, set this entry to the icon’s file name. The .ico file name extension is preferred, but it is also possible to specify .bmp files, or .exe and .dll files that contain icons. If you use a relative path, the icon is available to people who view the folder over the network. You must also set the IconIndex entry. |
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IconIndex |
Set this entry to specify the index for a custom icon. If the file assigned to IconFile only contains a single icon, set IconIndex to 0. |
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InfoTip |
Set this entry to an informational text string. It is displayed as an infotip when the cursor hovers over the folder. If the user clicks the folder, the information text is displayed in the folder’s information block, below the standard information. |
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A typical set of entries would look like the below.
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=C:WindowsRegedit.exe
IconIndex=0
InfoTip=”Registry templates for updating standard settings within the operating system”
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The above will set the icon to be that used by Regedit. The icon index is the index number of the icon within the icon file. If a bespoke icon is to be used, this can be placed within a hidden folder underneath the folder being displayed (use attrib +h FolderName to hide the folder).
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Save the file.
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Now open a command prompt and set the desktop.ini file to be a hidden system file using the command attrib +s +h PathFileName.
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The folder will now display with the regedit icon to provide a visual queue that the folder contains items relating to the registry.
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Hovering the mouse over the folder displays the tooltip.
