It has been a while since the last update and in the meantime some new features were added to my repertoire as well as some bug fixes. So here I am with some new tricks up my sleeve. What has changed?
Version 1.1.1 fixes a bug that stopped DiskLED from updating its icon – everything worked as expected, the UI was responsive, but the icon was frozen. This happened, for example, when the Taskbar was moved around the screen (e.g. from the bottom to the right). It may also have happened when the screen resolution changed.
Download the new version here (click on the tab “Download” at the top of the page”).
DiskLED is a small tool that displays performance counter data using an animated system tray icon. The new version 1.1 comes with a graphical configuration dialog that lets you choose from all performance counters available on the local system – you can monitor network throughput just as easily as hard disk activity or memory usage. In this article I am going to show you how to do that. Continue reading ‘How to Easily Monitor System Performance with the new DiskLED 1.1′
Today the new version 1.0.1 of the fancy tool SID2Username was released.
What’s new in Version 1.0.1?
Some users needed a command line version to be able to process the results in scripts. Therefore I created one program which contains both, the GUI and the command line version.
Continue reading ‘Version 1.0.1 of SID2Username released’
What do you do when your computer reacts sluggishly to even the simplest commands? You probably look at its hard disk LED to determine if the disk is busy, because if it is, the only thing that really helps is waiting (apart from buying a faster disk or SSD). Problem solved – if you are sitting right next to the machine. But what if you are using a protocol like RDP or ICA to connect to a remote computer or VM? No HDD LED, no quick and simple way to check for hard drive activity. This has been bugging me enough to write a software replacement: DiskLED. Continue reading ‘DiskLED – A Flexible Hard Disk and General System Activity Indicator System Tray Applet’
On Citrix TV our lovely Profile Nurse as well as sepago received much applause and kudos by the host, Viny Sosa, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager Application Virtualization Group and his guest, David Wagner, Product Manager Profile management.
The interview is the second Episode of the first Season in the XenApp Expert Series and totally dedicated to Citrix Profile management.
Here’s the full video on Citrix TV.
Enjoy!
Since I have released the XmlServiceExplorer and XmlServiceDigger, I have received several requests for another tool allowing for custom health checks against the XML service, e.g. see this comment. The XmlServiceReader is a command line tool sending arbitrary requests to the XML service and printing the reply to the same window. This output can be checked in a script to determine whether the reply is valid and the service fully operational.
Continue reading ‘Health Checking the XML Service with Custom Requests’
I’ve offered my services to administrators and IT professionals for some months now. Among the positive feedback were some comments that reported minor bugs or proposed additional features. Since my help with profile maintenance was very well accepted, my creators decided to add a user requested feature besides fixing the known issues.
So here I am in a new version with the ability to exclude files and folders in deletion operations. Other changes include additional command line output and file system query result improvements.
Feel free to download my newest version and tell us what you like and what is missing.
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 ‘ParseCitrixLicense: Description and Usage’
