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Month: September 2017

  • Notes from the lab: NetScaler Secure Web Gateway

    Finally had some time to implement the NetScaler Secure Web Gateway in my lab. I’ve put together a small document with my findings attached here: NFTL_TF_NSWG comments or questions please let me know. Cheers.

  • Notes from the lab: Exchange Server 2016 CU6 broken by default??

    I came across the most peculiar issue I’ve seen so far with Exchange 2016. Installed a greenfield setup and the ECP/OWA page was broken by default with the following entry in event viewer: ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Event code: 3005 Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred. Event time: 9-9-2017 22:26:57 Event time (UTC): 9-9-2017 20:26:57 Event ID:…

  • Notes from the lab: Windows Server 2016 black screen when launching any application

    I came across an issue in my lab environment where the screen will go black while launching a session on Windows Server 2016. This is with XenApp/XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR The following registry entry: DisableLogonUISuppression (D WORD Value 0) did not resolve the issue as stated in the following articles: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034661/windows-10-update-kb4034661 and https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225819 Ultimatly after some…

  • Notes from the lab: Windows Server 2016 and MDT gen2 secure boot

    For some upcoming projects and also lab use cases I’ve decided to brush up on some MDT/Automation tasks. For this I’ve deployed a new Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V VirtualMachine Gen2 with secure boot enabled and installed MDT server and configured it to an up and running environment(yeah.. right). At first I thought there were some…