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Some of you might have already read on Twitter that I’m currently doing a little ‚experiment‘.
About a month ago I got me a Surface Pro and said to myself, „Now that you got it, you have to use it!“ and started to think about how to do that. I came to the conclusion that all the stuff I do on my laptop (Mail, browsing, Word, Powerpoint, Excel) can easily be transfered to the Surface,

Did you know that there are subtle differences how Wi-Fi works depending on the geographical region you are in? For example, you may have issues operating a US device in Europe. The device will not be able to see or connect to some wireless networks.

US Surface Pro

I was affected by this issue and it took me three weeks to nail this issue with the help of my colleague Marcel Meurer.

In a recent deployment of Remote Desktop Services with Windows Server 2012, I experienced a second prompt for credentials. It occurred after successfully authenticating with Remote Desktop WebAccess  and launching a RemoteApp from the browser. This blog explains why the second prompt is shown and how to get rid of it.

What the user is experiencing

Launching a RemoteApp from WebAccess is usually a very simple thing to do. After logging on (see first screenshot below),

In my lab environment I tried to install and use Citrix WebInterface 5.4 on Windows Server 2012. This blog will guide you through the installation and configuration process.

Prepare your Windows Server 2012

Install the following roles and features:

• .NET Framework 3.5 Features (you need access to the Windows installation source – because of the Feature on Demand setup option)
• Web Server (IIS) with sub-components
  • Application Development
    • ASP
    • ASP.NET 3.5
• Management Tools with sub-components
  • IIS 6 Management Compatibility
  • IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility

With the release of Windows Server 2012, I wanted to upgrade my test and demo environment as quickly as possible. As with many hosting offerings, I do not have physical access to my dedicated server but do get two hours of remote console access for free. Therefore, I needed a way to deploy Windows Server 2012. This article documents how I successfully installed Windows Server 2012 on the second hard disk from a running Windows Server 2008 R2.

In a centralized environment such as a XenApp farm, users share resources with one another. A thoroughly designed platform will be able to handle all prospected users as well as provide contingencies for failures and maintenance tasks. When sizing a XenApp farm, resources as well as licenses need to be calculated for the concurrently connected users (CCU) which may well be only a small fraction of the total number of users. From an architectural point of view,

Windows Recovery Environment (RE) is based on the Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) and can be extended to be a minimalistic system to recover a somehow broken systen. Windows RE is configured in the boot configuration data to be the failover system for the primary boot entry. If the boot loader fails on the default entry, it will automatically try to boot into the recovery environment.

Windows RE offers the following features:

•  System Repair attempts to correct typical issues rendering the system unbootable,

The most prominent reason for thinking about booting through UEFI instead of BIOS is the availability of large drives. BIOS requires a MBR (Master Boot Record) formatted drive which is inherently limited to 2 TiB. But there are more very good reasons for making the switch. In this article I will provide a brief comparison of BIOS and UEFI before explaining how to create bootable devices for UEFI and install Windows on an UEFI system.

Just wanted to keep you up-to-date regarding my task to automatically build a folder-collection structure in a customer’s Configuration Manager 2012 environment. (see also article https://www.sepago.de/e/david/2012/02/24/create-folders-in-microsoft-system-center-configuration-manager-with-powershell )

Create Configuration Manager device collections

We already know how to create folders underneath the collections node. Now we need to create the collections our clients will one day be members of.
This isn’t too hard a task, so here’s my script:

You all know that we’ve got “Limiting collections” now in Configuration Manager 2012,

Just a short article today…

I’m in the middle of a Configuration Manager implementation at a customer’s site and facing the problem of creating lots of folders and collections in those folders.

As you all might know Microsoft got rid of the “subcollections” and gave us collection folders to arrange our collections.

My customer needs round about 150 folders and I am a lazy admin. What does a lazy admin do?