Category: Desktop

Desktop, Windows Technologies

The Get Windows 10 App will not display on domain joined PCs

As Windows 10 is out, you may be anticipating an upgrade prompt on your Windows 7 or Windows 8 systems. As per Microsoft instructions you ensure that Windows Update is enabled and all latest updates are installed on your systems but you don’t see the Windows 10 upgrade prompt on your systems. When you run the Windows troubleshooter “Get Windows 10 App”, it does all the checking and reports below message if your systems is part of a domain, which is a usual case with any of the business system.    You can also follow the Microsoft manual solution steps, […]

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Citrix, Desktop, Virtualization

Troubleshooting XenDesktop Session connectivity error | The connection to "" failed with status (1030).

Error: —————————Desktop Viewer—————————The connection to “Windows7” failed with status (1030).—————————OK—————————   Environemnt: HTTPS web site serving external users. With Public cert from GoDaddy. NetScalar 10.1 Dedicated StoreFront server with HTML5 WebSockets support XenDesktop 7.6 XenServer 6.2 Provisioning Method: Machine Creation Services Windows 7 SP1 x64 bit Desktop VM Windows Activation using KMS Non-Persistent Static VMS   Troubleshooting: Whenever, user clicks on launch it results in 1030 error User attempts to reconnect to a already disconnected session For the same user it works fine from other system that is in different network It works for users from HTML5 or Receiver 14.1

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Desktop, Windows Technologies

Microsoft Outlook Application dependency on OWA URL

Scenario: You are moving Exchange mailboxes of users from one datacentre to another.  Post movement, your users will be able to access their mailboxes via OWA URL of the new datacentre.  However, until reconfigured, their Outlook application will still be connecting to user mailbox via their previous datacentre OWA URL only and thus email access via Outlook becomes flaky and slower.  If the previous datacentre OWA URL becomes unavailable, users will not be able to access their mailboxes until their OWA URL configured in Outlook is updated to point to the new datacentre OWA URL.   Resolution: Update user Outlook […]

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