In October Dennis (my colleague) and I visited the App-DNA Partner Training in Frankfurt. At sepago, we did some AppTitude Launchpads in the past but at the training I wrote down 7 pages (real paper) with information already known but also new to me – I only wrote some specific information about AppTitude and not all (so my notes are not a replacement for the manuals). I think it’s a good idea to write it down in a blog for interested readers.
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App-DNA Partnertraining–My NotesPublished by Marcel Meurer on 11/03/2011 | 0 Comments | 1,561 Views read more |
Is sepago’s Profile Migrator a Cloud Bridge for User Settings?Published by Marcel Meurer on 02/18/2011 | 1 Comments | 797 Views sepago’s Profile Migrator is well-known for collecting personal profile settings and user data in a migration scenario. PM enables the IT-Department to migrate the client, server or application versions without losing personal settings or data. But what happens if a company decides to use cloud services? “Normally” the cloud provider gives the employees access to applications or desktops (like Citrix XenDesktop). In both cases the applications or the desktops are not configured like their old, local ones. |
Migrating Windows: What data contains your roaming profiles? – Use Powershell to analyze Profile SharesPublished by Marcel Meurer on 02/10/2011 | 1 Comments | 7,284 Views A lot of companies use Windows Roaming Profiles to share user data across client systems and server systems. The technology of roaming profile makes sure that your desktop settings, Internet Explorer favorites and passwords “move”, that your Word, Excel, Outlook, etc. is configured correctly and more. If a company uses roaming profiles in a fat client infrastructure, administrators are able to change the client device in case of a failure without the losing of hundreds or thousands settings and documents. |
How to access a SQL-Server with Pass-through, SQL-Server and given domain credentialsPublished by Marcel Meurer on 01/05/2011 | 3 Comments | 1,461 Views This week I tried to write a simple PowerShell script to connect and create a new database on a Microsoft SQL-Server. The script’s purpose is to create the new database in an automated Citrix XenApp 6 installation with a given domain-user account. The script will be started as a task in a task sequence. Because of a malfunction in SCCM vNext I can't start the task with a given domain service account. After some research I found out that there are three different ways to access a SQL Server with PowerShell. Especially the access with given domain credentials doesn’t work as I expected! |
Backup to Microsoft SkyDrive – But Encrypted!Published by Marcel Meurer on 12/23/2010 | 4 Comments | 5,468 Views
The Challenge:
I'm using a notebook for my work and mostly save my data to the local disc. For security reasons, this drive is encrypted using EFS technology which is build-in in Windows 7. When I'm in the office in Cologne, I'm able to sync my business related data against the file server. But I also carry some personal files on the disk. For these files (like banking data) I searched for a simple solution to save them.
Microsoft SkyDrive
I found Microsoft's service SkyDrive (http://skydrive.live.com), which offers a capacity of 25 GByte for files, photos, videos and documents for free. There is also a tool from Microsoft called Mesh, which can synchronize local folders from different computers with SkyDrive.
Improve Security – But how?
This works well, but I'm not sure if it is a good idea to copy sensitive personal data to the cloud. But what could I do? My first idea was to use an encryption software which can map a virtual drive to an encrypted container.
But there are two disadvantages for this simple solution:
The Challenge:I'm using a notebook for my work and mostly save my data to the local disc. For security reasons, this drive is encrypted using EFS technology which is build-in in Windows 7. When I'm in the office in Cologne, I'm able to sync my business related data against the file server. But I also carry some personal files on the disk. For these files (like banking data) I searched for a simple solution to save them. |
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