Create ICA files with Citrix Quick Launch Tool

Creating ICA files is usually pretty easy, but not all the time. I had an instance where I couldn’t create an ICA file with the access management console. So I used the ICA file creator from citrix, however it kept throwing up errors, and generic errors at that. I was fed up trying to find a solution. Then I found this Citrix Quick Launch tool, which allows you to directly connect to a...

How to backup WSS 3.0 automatically

So how do you backup WSS 3.0 automatically? Well you know you can go into the operations center and backup manually, by setting the destination. However this will not automatically backup your sharepoint farm on a daily basis. There is a simple command to backup your sharepoint farm via command line. Once you have a command line then you can create a batch file and backup however your...

How to start a full crawl on sharepoint

If you trying to get sharepoint to start a full crawl of your site, or you need to diagnose a problem you have to wait for sharepoint to start it’s full crawl interval. However with the below command you have it start immediately. Stsadm -o spsearch -action...

How to access embedded SQL on WSS 3.0

I wanted to access the SQL databases on my WSS 3.0 server, however I was using the embedded edition of SQL. So I downloaded SQL Management Server studio, but I couldn’t still access the databases. It kept saying it can’t make a remote connection to the server though I was trying to access it via local to the machine. Then I found this.  Type it in as the server name, and...

iPhone Jailbreak for 3.1.3 is here!

The iPhone spirit Jailbreak for 3.1.3 is here. Much thanks goes to the Dev Team and @comex for this release. Works on iPhone 3G, 3GS, and the iPad. Jailbreak is very easy, attach your iphone or ipad and click jailbreak that’s it. Below are the screenshots for the mac version of spirit. The download links for Windows and Mac are below. 1. Download link for iPhone Spirit...

iPhone Jailbreak 3.1.3 spirit is coming

The iPhone Jailbreak 3.1.3 is coming soon here from the Dev Team possibly in a few days, or maybe a couple of weeks. If you have a iPhone 3GS 3.1.2 you probably have jailbroken, but have to constantly tether it back to a computer and run blackra1n again everytime the iPhone resets. The new Spirit jailbreak from the Dev Team will allow you to jailbreak your iPhone without tethering everytime you...

Apply Citrix Password Manager per application or per AD group only

Most people like me don’t see the benefits of running Citrix password manager on the whole farm. I want only have it run based on a published application, or based on a AD group. Citrix password manager it’s a love hate relationship for me. I hate it most of the time, except for like one application in our whole Citrix farm. I have like 50 out of 3000 users that could only benefit...

Backup your iPhone SHSH Blobs, before the spirit jailbreak

The Dev Team will soon be releasing an iPhone 3.1.3 jailbreak without tethering. I’ll update this post as soon as the update is released. However this jailbreak is a userland jailbreak called Spirit. This is a jailbreak not an unlock (unlock means you can use the iPhone on tmobile also). A userland jailbreak is a security hole that was found and being used to jailbreak a phone. Apple will...

Reboot your server remotely with IPMI using Dell’s BMC

I bought a new poweredge T110 server, it came with BMC (Baseboard management controller) already installed. I needed to reboot the system, because it was unresponsive (Windows 2008 server crashed). However I can’t RDP into it, and I’m not at the site where the physical machine is located. All I needed was someone to power cycle it, but no one was available. That’s when I did...

Turning webpages into applications on a mac

There are some web applications out there, that you wish were actually applications instead of firing up a web browser and navigating to the web application. Well you can if you have a mac, with a program called Fluid. It’s simple and easy. I recently converted a weather web app into a full blown application. If you live in Houston, you know the weather changes drastically from one day to...