Filtered articles: "Robocopy"

Filtered articles: "Robocopy"
New and Free: Helge's Profile Toolkit

The past weekend I presented my user profile toolkit at PubForum the E2E Conference. The toolkit is a collection of free tools, tips and scripts that help you create/maintain/delete user profiles. Some of the tools I have written myself (Delprof2), others are from sepago (Profile Nurse) and other companies.
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New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Windows, Hyper-V, Citrix, PowerShell and Application Streaming / App-V

Windows

Beginning with Vista, when formatting a drive the entire disk is overwritten with zeroes. While this is good for end users who like to wipe all data prior to selling or throwing away a disk drive, SAN-based volumes should not be formatted like this. Perform a quick format instead. But if you want to make sure the data is really gone - no need for "secure erase" programs any more! The need for multiple overwrites is a myth.
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New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Bugs, Annoyances, PowerShell and some other Stuff

Bugs and Annoyances

ICA connections initiated over the ICA client object (ICO) SDK fail because 128-bit encryption cannot be enabled. Apparently, setting EncryptionLevelSession does not work. Annoyingly, this bug is more than a year old, was fixed in the ICA client 10.2 and reappeared in the current version 11.0. Bugs like this one are bad for the entire Citrix ecosystem, because they break cool tools like Citrix Quick Launch, xConnect and others I may not even know about. [Update 2009-09-30: this bug has been fixed in ICA client 11.2.]

Windows 7's version of Robocopy does not copy EFS-encrypted files to an unencrypted location on another computer. Even Explorer can do that. Vista's version of Robocopy was not so narrow-minded.
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Eating Microsoft's Dog Food - A Self-Experiment With Windows 7, Part 1: Preparation
Published by Helge Klein on 03/19/2009 | 6 Comments | 5,867 Views

After reading a lot about the speed and stability of Windows 7 (beta 1), I decided it was time for me not only to use it for real work, but also to move from 32-bit Windows to a 64-bit installation. This mini-series serves as a documentation of the steps I took and the lessons I learned.

You may call me reckless for using a beta, and an early one at that, on my production system, and you may even be right - time will tell. But at least I am trying not to be negligent: I chose not to replace my Vista installation with Windows 7, but install Win7 into a virtual hard disk (VHD) file that can be located anywhere on an existing NTFS volume.
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