Friday, December 30, 2011

AppSense Upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1

Recently I have to upgrade AppSense from version 8.0 to 8.1

Our 8.1 environment was messy, the Outlook profile (e.g. registry entries) was stored in both Managed application registry and Desktop Settings registry. This caused a lot of problems, like secondary mailbox not being retained, unable to use "Send To Email" from any other application, etc.

To fix this, I had to do the following:

After the upgrade was done to 8.1, before the users start using Outlook, I exported all the users from EM personalisation DB, using the SQL query bellow:


SELECT [Name]

FROM [AppSensePersonalizationDB].[dbo].[User]

WHERE [DomainName] = 'DOMAIN'


Please note, my DB name is AppSensePersonalizationDB, yours probably has different name

Then save the result as a txt file, e.g. users.txt, which has entry like the following:


user1

user2

user3


You have to install AppSense EM Manager Tools to be able to use the EMPRegUtil. Once installed, create a batch file:

@echo off

SET EMPRegUtilConnectionString=Data Source=EMDB;Initial Catalog=AppSensePersonalizationDB;Integrated Security=SSPI


for /f "tokens=*" %%i IN (users.txt) DO call:doit %%i

:doit

if "%~1" == "" goto end

@echo %~1

@echo exporting MS Office 2010 Outlook profiles...

EMPRegUtil EXPORT DOMAIN\%~1 "Production" "MS Office 2010" "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook" C:\temp\%~1.reg

@echo deleting MS Office 2010 Outlook profiles...

EMPRegUtil DELETE DOMAIN\%~1 "Production" "MS Office 2010" "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem"

@echo deleting Session Data Outlook profiles...

EMPRegUtil DELETE DOMAIN\%~1 "Production" "Session Data" "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem"

@echo importing to Session Data Outlook profiles...

EMPRegUtil IMPORT DOMAIN\%~1 "Production" "Session Data" C:\temp\%~1.reg

:end

Please note:

my database server name is: EMDB

Run the batch script, it will export the Outlook profile from Managed application, delete the registry from managed application, delete the registry from session data and import the registry back to session data



Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Exchange 2007 Restore

Had to restore someone else mailbox today - using NetBackup 7.

Steps involved:
  • Create the Recovery Storage Group
  • Restore the Storage Group that has the database of the mailbox to be restored to the Recovery Storage Group
  • Mount the database in that Recovery Storage Group
  • Create an empty mailbox (AD User + Mailbox)
  • Restore the mailbox to the new mailbox

Restore-Mailbox -RSGMailbox 'Doe, John' -RSGDatabase 'Recovery Storage Group\Mailbox Database 01' -id 'new mailbox' -TargetFolder 'myFolder'


Saturday, October 08, 2011

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Active Directory DNS Waiting for Initial Replication

When you boot the 1st domain controller within the environment which has more than 1 DC, by default the DC is waiting for initial inbound replication from the other DC. But because this is the first DC you boot, this is going to take a while

To avoid this, add the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NTDS\Parameters
Value name: Repl Perform Initial Synchronizations
Value type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 0

Add Reboot!
Do not use this method in the producation environment

Monday, August 22, 2011

MOSS 2007 Shared Service Provider - ACCESS DENIED

I have just done a clean MOSS 2007 installation and tried to open the Shared Service Provider Link and got a BIG ACCESS DENIED ERROR!!

Here is the fix

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861


Monday, July 04, 2011

PowerShell AD Group Membership Listing

To get the member of a particular group in Active Directory:

Get-ADGroup -filter 'name -eq "Group Name" | Get-ADGroupMember -Recursive | fl name

Replace the "Group Name" with the group name from which you want to get the member of

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

PS3 Media Server + Samsung TV

Just got my Samsung TV, connected to the network WiFi.
Got the PS3 Media Server installed on my OSX, with a little bit tweak:

PS3 Media Server\renderers\Samsung.conf:

MimeTypesChanges=audio/wav=audio/L16|video/x-matroska=video/avi
StreamExtensions=mkv,mp3,mp4,avi

The movies are streamed awesomely to the TV!

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Citrix XenApp Management Console Bug

Citrix XenApp 5 or 4.5FP2 has got a bug - when you launch CMC and run the discovery, it does not find the XenApp farm, only the Web Interface module.

To fix it, run the following:

cd %CommonProgramFiles%\Citrix\*Present*
%windir%\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\regasm /codebase pse.core.dll
cd %CommonProgramFiles%\Citrix\*Framew*
CmiLaunch.exe

Run the discovery again and it should find it now

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Upgrade IOS on 877W ISR Wireless Module

It is a bit tricky to update the AP module inside the Cisco ISR 877 Series.

1st, assign an IP address to the VLAN of the router

interface vlan 1
ip address x.x.x.x y.y.y.y
no shut

2nd, assign the wlan-ap 0 interface with IP unnumbered

interface wlan-ap 0
ip unnumbered vlan 1

3nd, access the wlan-ap 0 module console

service-module wlan-ap 0 session

4th, assign an IP address to BVI0/BVI1 interface

interface BVI0
ip address z.z.z.z y.y.y.y
no shut

5th, get the IOS image from the tftp

archive download-sw tftp://x.x.x.x/ios.version.tar

6th, write mem and reload

wr mem
reload

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

HP Blade E-Fuse

To reset one of the blades on the HP enclosure, telnet to the OA, then issue the following command:

reset server [bay no]

[bay no] is the bay number of the blade that you want to reset

Monday, February 21, 2011

Remote Assistant with Mandatory Profile

By default, you cannot launch Remote Assistant to help a user who is running on Mandatory Profile. For example, running XenDesktop + AppSense + Mandatory Profile is a good mix of technologies - however when a user having problem, you won't be able to start Remote Assistant session to their XenDesktop session.

To fix this, use the following VBScript to modify the registry:

Option Explicit
Const HKLM = &H80000002

Dim objReg, strRegKey, strRegValue, strRegData, objAdInfo, objUser, username, objWMIService, objAccount, strComputer, wmipath, oShell, usersid, domain
strComputer = "."

Set oShell = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )

username = oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%UserName%")
domain = oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%UserDomain%")

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
wmipath = "Win32_UserAccount.Name='" & username & "',Domain='" & domain & "'"

Set objAccount = objWMIService.Get(wmipath)
usersid = objAccount.SID

Set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & ".\root\default:StdRegProv")
strRegKey = "Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\" & usersid & "\"

strRegValue = "State"
strRegData = "0"

objReg.SetStringValue HKLM, strRegKey, strRegValue, strRegData

WScript.Quit 0 'Return success

They way we do it, we attach this VBScript everytime the msra.exe process starts - this makes sure the "State" is set to 0 before the msra.exe process started

Monday, January 24, 2011