When you're using Citrix and want your users to be able to roam smoothly from client PC to client PC, you need to use the Web Interface (WI). When connecting to the WI you can use either a webbrowser or the Program Neigbourhood Agent (PNA). When the only "application" you provide to your users is a full desktop, and you have Single Signon in place (e.g. a remote desktop with PowerFuse) it can be quiet annoying that users still have to start a full blown internet explorer and then click that one icon to connect to that one application. If you could auto launch the remote desktop and still roam smoothly from PC to PC, you could turn your Workstations ... READ MORE>>

Employees come, employees go, computers come, computers go... What (often) stays are their accounts. In my consulting days, I've checked many Active Directories for old and unused accounts. I've never ever seen one that didn't contain at least 10 accounts that were not used anymore.

This, in itself, is nobody's fault. When a new employee arrives, HR requests a new account, simply because the new user cannot work without a login and password. When the same user leaves, nobody thinks about the account that's left behind.

Same goes for computer accounts. The new computer is made a part of the AD, but when it dies nobody thinks of updating the AD.

To make an administrator's life a ... READ MORE>>