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Windows Machine Unknown state on ESX

February 11, 2019, 9:25 pm technology

Today I will share a small tip if your Windows VM get an Unknown state in your ESX.

The problem can be easily fixed by first removing the machine from the inventory, without deleting the files.

After that you will have to go back into your datastore to re-add the machine back to the inventory, by right-clicking the .VMX file, and select the Add to Inventory option.

After that the state will be green :)

RDS: Published App + Dell / Wyse ThinOS + Juniper DHCP relay option

February 1, 2019, 9:28 pm technology

Hi everyone

Today I wanted to share a bug I had with some Juniper SRX-100 model and newer, when with the SSG5 it was ok.

The bug appear on the terminal when they boot on a remote subnet (DHCP relay), the DHCP take time to deliever them an IP from the DHCP relay. The problem does not appear in the local subnet where the DHCP server is. The problem appear only on newer tunnel with the Juniper.

After a *lot* of research I found out that the newest JunosOS does not handle correctly custom DHCP's option when the relay happen...

For reference all the possible option. The important's one in my case is the 161

The terminal were getting the IP of the server where the root configuration is, where the root configuration to pre-configure the terminal with all my RDS's option.

The problem found was the Juniper don't handle correctly an IP into that field, like if the ftp server is named CENTRAL_FTP with the IP 192.168.1.50, then you must use the short DNS's name, not the full FQDN.

In my case I changed the DHCP option from 192.168.1.50 to CENTRAL_FTP and maked sure the DNS option was set correctly, and voila, the DHCP's option started to work flawlessly via my VPN tunnel with the Juniper !

Strange bug it's, but kinda why I share it, took time to find that culprit !

My first github contribution on docs.microsoft.com !

January 24, 2019, 4:10 pm technology

Hi everyone

Now that doc.microsoft.com is linked with github, everyone can help. Today I wanted to share a small thing I did, really a small thing, but it was really easy to do and it add visibility.

I did my first github contribution and it get commited to be visible on microsoft directly there ! :) (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot-core/windows-iot-core)

The github repository is there https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-iotcore-docs

The beautiful into that is that it's easy to do.

First you setup a GitHub's account.

After your account is created, you read the document and check where your skill can help. In my case I selected the iot subset. There I found a typo and I corrected it.

The github repository;

The next step is to contribute, in my case I edited that file;

After that you edit your file, and in the end you click to commit your change to the master branch, and voila it's done, it just need a verification from a staff to approve the edit. As easy as that !!

The result :)

Saving PerfMon Counter selection

January 5, 2019, 9:42 pm technology

Hi today, my first post of 2019 :D

I will give a small tip today, if for debugging you need to select custom perfmon counter, and you always have to redo the same selection over and over again, the tip is for you.

It's a way to simply save the perfmon selection, as such you will need to make launch manually mmc.

Launch the Microsoft Management Console (mmc.exe)
File -> Add/Remove Snap-ins
Performance Monitor, Select Add, Select OK.
Add your Counters
File -> Save As

After that if you launch that saved applet, you will always have by default the wanted counter.

A small tip, but handy :D

Windows Remote Desktop / XenApp 7.X + Session Time Limits

December 10, 2018, 5:21 pm technology

Hi

Today I will share a small tip if you are new to the XenApp 7.15 LTSR but are an old timer of the old XenApp.

Now the session limit is no longer in the ICA-RDP configuration panel, but it now use a standard GPO to set. The XenApp service listen to that settings now;

Computer Configuration, Admin Templates, Windows Components, Remote Desktop Services, Remote Desktop Session Host, Session Time Limits

Set time limit for disconnect sessions