Today I have received a call from one of our users saying that she can’t open an application published on our Citrix MetaFrame Server. I’ve connected to this user’s PC and noticed the following error:
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Cannot connect to the Citrix MetaFrame server.
An I/O (Input/Output) error occurred while your request was being processed.
Try to connect again. If you continue to receive this message, contact your Citrix administrator. |
The problem seems to be related to the old network card (NIC). I’ve opened the network connections window and “repaired†the network connection.
The error didn’t occur after that and I could open the published application without any problem.
We have upgraded our servers from Windows 2000 to Windows 2003 and decided to upgrade the virtual SCSI controller from BusLogic to LSI Logic since it guarantees the significant performance boost. So, this is the way I’ve replaced the BusLogic SCSI controller with LSI Logic.
So, here’s how my virtual machine did look like before an upgrade:
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This script detects and tries to fix the error related to start up of Automatic Updates and BITS services on network computers. Such error is related to security identifier (EventID 7023 and EventID 7024).  This problem is usually observed on network computers after applying changes to group policies. In such cases the script will reset a security identifier as per Microsoft KB 555336 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555336) and start Automatic Updates and BITS. Can be usefull for networks where Windows Server Update Services 3.0 (WSUS) is used.
Script is taken from: http://forum.vingrad.ru/forum/topic-154708/view-all.html
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Script for remote reboot/shutdown, power off, etc. You must have proper rights on a remote computer for this script to work.
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This script will check the size of the Event Log files and if any of these files will have the size greater than defined value it will back it up and then clean it.
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The script will query domain computers for logged on users on each computer
I’ve written this mini how-to as a simple reference to help non-advanced PC users to quickly download files from an FTP server. Let’s say, someone asked you to download several files from his/their FTP and gave you an access credentials. I will use the following credentials in this example:
Ftp host: ftp.example.com
User name: user1
Password: pass1
This information is a minimum that one must have to successfully connect and authenticate in some FTP site provided that on an FTP server no anonymous access is granted, or the data was made available to a specific user, user1 in our case.
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Today, I’ve encountered the following error when trying to open default.aspx page in SharePoint Designer 2007.
soap:ServerServer was unable to process request. —> A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Web Part Page cannot be displayed or imported because it is not registered as safe on this site. You may not be able to open this page in an HTML editor that is compatible with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. To fix this page, contact the site administrator to have the Web Part or Web Form Control configured as safe. You can also remove the Web Part or Web Form Control from the page by using the Web Parts Maintenance Page. If you have the necessary permissions, you can use this page to disable Web Parts temporarily or remove personal settings. For more information, contact your site administrator.
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Today Microsoft Released Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2008
Some of the changes include:
- SQL Server 2008 SP1 has made it easier and more efficient to deploy and manage service packs. By adding the ability to Slipstream, SQL Server 2008 and SP1 can be installed simultaneously. This decreases the total time for an installation, including a fewer number of reboots.
- Service Pack Uninstall allows administrators to uninstall the service pack separately from the database release.
- Report Builder 2.0 Click-Once deployment. Up till now, Report Builder 2.0 was only available as a separate install on the client machines. Now .NET’s Click-Once technology is used so that users can run Report Builder without having to install it first through a setup file locally.
- In addition to the a roll-up of previous cumulative updates, SP1 includes quick fix engineering updates and minor fixes in response to requests reported through the SQL Server community. There are no new feature updates in this service pack.
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Extrinsically many things seem to be absolutely simple and clear, any problem seems to be trifling and any task – easily solvable. However, whenever one decides to do some work himself then he inevitably faces the whole range of hidden agendas and miscellaneous problems. Let’s say we need to search for something in the Internet. Seems like there’s nothing easier than that! Anyone can open a web browser and navigate to www.google.com and enjoy all the benefits of the search engine, however, often it happens so that not everybody manage to always find exactly what they’re looking for! This happens because any tool must be mastered and in some cases the most simple tool turns out to be much more powerful than everybody might think it is. Even Google!
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