There are a variety of devices that have a multitude of ways to backup their configuration, although often you find yourself needing to purchase additional tools from a vendor to do so, or be forever stuck with copying that pesky switch, router, proxy or other configuration to some TFTP server […]
Yesterday afternoon we were struck by a bug that left us unable to enumerate applications, effectively resulting in a near 100% system-down condition. We’ve been working with Citrix on an intermittent inability to log in with little visible error other than ‘All the Citrix XML Services configured for farm Farm1 […]
My 6 year old Son excitedly told me today at lunch time that today was, in fact, Bring Your Child to Work Day. Last year he found out too late and didn’t get to come, so this year he was quite excited to join me for my afternoon. After informing my […]
In late February and early March we experienced “All the Citrix XML Services configured for farm failed to respond to this XML Service transaction.” As virtual desktops have grown increasingly important in our organization, this failure was critical to resolve quickly. Unfortunately, the first time it happened, reboots of the delivery […]
Sometimes little things slip through, especially when you’re in a rush. We recently discovered excessive CPU latency was affecting performance on a number of SQL servers on what should have been otherwise sufficient hosts. The cause wasn’t immediately clear, but since we began monitoring the servers with Veeam Management Pack […]
Unfortunately I won’t be able to go to Synergy this year. It’s a bit disappointing as I rather looked forward to it, but at least I have confirmation now so I can proceed with getting my XD 7 certification tests in order.
