On a Microsoft MDT 2012 Update 1 installation that had worked during a test period we needed to deploy a new batch of laptops with a different product number as this batch was different from our tests because the fingerprint readers were removed from the device.
Tag Archive for Microsoft
Hypervisors and the features discussions, will this become obsolete?
With the upcoming release of Hyper-V 3.0 we see a lot of movement from both VMware and Microsoft on marketing level so all features are promoted, recently this type of marketing became a bit more ugly as VMware launched a ‘Get the facts‘ and older blogs from Microsoft on ‘Windows Server 8: Hyper-V 3.0 Evens the Odds with vSphere‘. Dan Brinkmann posted a very useful overview (from a Microsoft perspective) on his blog.
Citrix: Microsoft Lync stopping machine shutdown/log off
During the last couple of projects I did I noticed that Microsoft Lync would prevent my session to log off normally, either on a Citrix XenApp/XenDestop or normal fat client deployment. Somehow running Lync stopped the logoff process and I would the error ”This program is preventing Windows from logging off”:
RDS: Windows 8 Scenario-based RDS deployment (movie included)
A couple of weeks ago Microsoft came to Inter Access to give a Windows 8 Demo Mania event, they mentioned the Scenario based RDS deployment so that triggered me to look into it and the result is this video. I hope this clarifies how scenario based deployment works:
Microsoft: App-V and RES Workspace Manager: Error 46075A9-1B401F6C-0000005
I was creating an unattended installation of the App-V 4.6 x64 for RDS using RES Automation Manager, I used an installation script from somebody else as source for this installation and the installation went without any problems. I accessed the server via a published desktop managed by RES Workspace Manager to test an application that was delivered via App-V but I couldn’t launch the application and it came up with the following errors in the eventviewer:
Category: APP-V, Citrix, Microsoft, RES Software, Workspace Manager, XenApp, XenDesktop |
Tags: App-V, Citrix, Error, Microsoft, RES Software, Workspace Manager
