It came to my attention today that there is a seemingly new issue with XenServer that is causing the time in Windows VMs to become offset by one day. My first thought was that this could be related to 2012 being a leap year, so I pulled up the source code for the Xen 4.1 hypervisor that handles leap years from …

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A lot of users who upgraded to the recently released Adobe Reader X 10.1.2 are finding that it crashes when trying to print a PDF.

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If you have two Netapp filers and want to use Snapmirror to replicate volumes or qtrees between the two, but want to force the replication traffic to traverse a specific network, there is a quick and easy way to do it. You’ll need a few things to get started: – SSH access to both filers – Network configuration on and …

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1. Disable unused Group Policy sections

In each of the GPOs that are applied to your servers and users, both User and Computer processing is enabled by default. Disabling unused parts of a GPO can shave some time off both logons and server booting. You can do this in the GPO properties. Just bring up the GPO in Group …

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Do you have a workstation that intermittently boots up with both the black Citrix Receiver icon and the old blue Program Neighborhood Agent/Online Plugin icon? And does it fail to launch published applications? This is a very common problem that affects both Windows XP and Windows 7 machines. Sometimes when the …

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