http://www.d-fens.net Network, system and application security en Copyright 2005-2009 d-fens GmbH & Co. KG. All rights reserved. http://www.d-fens.net/img/logo.gif http://www.d-fens.net Only loosely related to IT - at least it is about OSI Layer 1 and I heard Commodore used the DIN45326 connectors as well. This article tells you about how to make your custom coulour/size PowerLink cable that is much smaller than the original thick PowerLink cable. http://www.d-fens.net/kb/?id=200024 Servers Alive is a monitoring and alerting software from Woodstone. Though this software has a bunch of integrated test methods it allows for expansion and customization via an ActiveX COM interface. See this document on how to customize and get the most out of this software (including an easy way to write flexible WSC plugins). http://www.d-fens.net/?idMenu=3&idSub=10&idPage=2 When setting up Microsoft Outlook for use with RPC over HTTP(s) you cannot test its connectivity with a web browser like Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. The reason for this is because Microsoft Outlook uses some special HTTP verbs other than "GET", "HEAD" and "POST" for requesting data from the Microsoft Exchange server. However, you can use Microsoft WFetch 1.4 which is available for free download to simulate Outlook's requests. http://www.d-fens.net/?idMenu=2&idSub=6&idPage=3 [Unsupported] A way of changing the Outlook RPC over HTTPS port http://www.d-fens.net/?go=kb&id=200023 Some information about monitoring, logging, Microsoft LogParser, WCAT and others http://www.d-fens.net/?go=link&id=monitor I have compiled an updated PDF outlining the steps to configure the Citrix Secure Gateway 3.0 (currently available only in German). http://www.d-fens.net/?idMenu=2&idSub=5&idPage=2 There was a bug in AppShadow that could lead to AppShadow not redirecting the registry any more! When an application tried to close the well known root handles (HKLM, HKCR, ...) AppShadow closed the overloaded virtual handles as well. http://www.d-fens.net/?go=link&id=AppShadow Updated inconsistent documentation for referencing ini file. http://www.d-fens.net/?idMenu=3&idSub=6&idPage=3 CreateHardLink lets you create hard links and display information about them. http://www.d-fens.net/?idMenu=3&idSub=6&idPage=5 SessionInfo lets you display information about Terminal Server sessions from script. http://www.d-fens.net/?idMenu=3&idSub=6&idPage=4 AppShadow has been updated! In its current version you can additionally virtualize HKLM for every user (place a private HKLM into HKCU). http://www.d-fens.net/?go=link&id=AppShadow WaitUntil monitors a given process list and executes an action after all processes within the process list are terminated http://www.d-fens.net/?idMenu=3&idSub=6&idPage=3 With the new tool DbgViewRedir you can monitor OutputDebugString() messages from different terminal server and mirror them to your local session. Works with standard debuggers and tools like Sysinternals: DebugView. http://www.d-fens.net/?go=link&id=DbgViewRedir When trying to run the Microsoft Internet 6.0 Explorer as a published application on a server running Windows 2003 Server Group Policies are not applied (Microsoft and Citrix confirm this erratic behaviour). Apart from this observation there are other features that do not work as expected when running programm without the Windows Explorer shell. In order to avoid this I would like to present a small utility that detects and hides the Windows Explorer shell and thus allows programs to operate normally in Terminal Server environments (both RDP and ICA based). See my Knowledge Base article HOWTO: Detecting and Hiding Windows Explorer Shell for further details. http://www.d-fens.net/?go=kb&id=100188 By installing a hotfix for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 Q832894 (also known as MS04-004 security update) the Citrix feature Server-to-Client redirection does not work as expected on all servers any more. See article (german only) ERROR: Citrix Server-to-Client Umleitung funktioniert nicht wie erwartet for further details. http://www.d-fens.net/?go=kb&id=200020