Wednesday, July 30, 2008

CTX: Create a Null Printer

To create Null Printer with a unattended script:

start /wait rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "NULL PRINTER" /f "%systemroot%\inf\ntprint.inf" /r "lpt1:" /m "HP LaserJet 4" /z

>> Create a printer called "NULL PRINTER" using the HP Laserjet 4 driver and redirected to LPT1 port

----- optional steps -----

sleep 5

>> Wait 5 seconds

start /wait rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n "NULL PRINTER"

>> Set "NULL PRINTER" printer as default printer

Monday, July 28, 2008

CtxAdmTools: Dump Session Printers v1.0 Released!


This FREE tool list or dump all Session Printers in your Citrix policies.
Very useful to troubleshooting Citrix printing problems.
You can export the Session Printer information in each Citrix Policy to Text Files.

VMware: VMware released ESX 3i for free

VMware released the Update 2 for VMware Infrastructure 3.5 and that will give away the lightweight edition of the product, ESX 3i, for free.

VI 3.5 and ESX 3i will continue to share a the large majority of the code base.

ESX 3i will continue to have the same features that has today, without additional limitations

VMware will not require the purchase of any software & support subscription to access the product. Customer will be able to get the code without any restriction.

VMware ESXi has the same functionality and performance as VMware ESX but with a 32 MB disk footprint. With the ability to seamlessly upgrade to VMware Infrastructure 3, customers can add the benefits of server consolidation, automatic load balancing and business continuity to VMware ESXi.

Download VMware ESX 3i

Thursday, July 24, 2008

CtxAdmTools: PrintDriver v1.5 Released!

This tool change or replace a single or multiple Print Drivers installed in Windows servers.

PrintDriver v1.5 is FREE! You can use the Unregistered Version for as long as you would like.
Change the Print Driver of one single Printer.

Change the Print Driver of Multiples Printers

(Available only in the Registered Version)

This option is very useful is you replacing all HP Print Drivers for HP Universal Print Driver (UPD), for example.

You can use PrintCert to search for unsigned Print Drivers and use PrintDriver to replace these Print Drivers.

Friday, July 11, 2008

CtxAdmTools: PrintCert v1.2 Released!

This tool list Print Drivers installed in your Citrix farm or Windows servers List all Signed/Unsigned/Manufacturer Print Drivers installed on your farm or Windows server and export the results to Excel or Text files. Learn more...

The Print Spooler service terminates sporadically in your Citrix Server.
Event Logs shows "Print Spooler service terminated unexpectedly" Event ID 7031 is logged in Windows Event Logs.
The cause of this, almost of the times is Unsigned Print Drivers or Manufacturer Print Drivers.
PrintCert v1.2 is FREE!
You can use the Unregistered Version for as long as you would like.
The Registered Version provide the ability to load Multiple RegKey files and Save Report in Text or Excel files.

Using
Multiple RegKey you can query multiple servers or a Citrix Farm.
Using the Load Multiple Servers Print File option, you can generate a report of several servers.


Your can export the result of a single server or multiples servers to a Text File...or export the result of a single server or multiples servers to a Excel File and order it per Driver Model ...


Download PrintCert v1.2

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

CtxAdmTools: Multiple RegKey v1.0 Released!

This tool query the registry on single or multiple servers If you several servers in your environment, you must know how difficult is compare the registry values between servers.
Now with Multiple RegKey you can query the value of one registry key (and SubKeys, if you want) on a single or multiple servers to compare values.

Download Multiple RegKey v1.0

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

CtxAdmTools: Load Evaluator Info v1.0 Released!

This FREE tool show the Load Evaluator of every server in your Citrix farm.

With Load Evaluator Info v1.0, you can list the Load Evaluator of every server on your Citrix farm and export results to Excel or Text files.

Download Load Evaluator Info v1.0