Monthly Archive for June, 2008

Free Tool to Help You Better Understand What is Inside a Citrix License File


Update: Version 1.1 supports XenDesktop Licenses in Addition to XenApp Licenses

Most Citrix products rely heavily on license files. While the basic format of a license file is somewhat documented, most fields used in license files are not. This makes understanding their contents difficult. It does not help that the license files can hardly be called readable with most of the relevant data in one long line. Continue reading ‘Free Tool to Help You Better Understand What is Inside a Citrix License File’


Undocumented Changes to the Cluster.exe Command Line Tool in Server 2008

While working on the next edition of my book I found several documentation errors on Microsoft’s Technet pages describing the command line tools of Windows Server 2008. One of the graver errors relates to clustering.

Windows Server 2008 brings many improvements with regards to clustering. However, the new syntax of the command line-based cluster management tool cluster.exe does not seem to be documented yet. Continue reading ‘Undocumented Changes to the Cluster.exe Command Line Tool in Server 2008′