Implementing Desktop Theme Look and Feel for XenApp 6.5 Applications on Windows Server 2008 R2

Its is very common requirement for Application Service Providers who host customer applications on their XenApp infrastructure as a cloud solution. It’s very often your customers request you to enable a Windows desktop (in particular Windows 7) theme (look and feel for Window frames). Here are quick steps to achieve this requirement using Citrix Enhanced Desktop Component: Enable Citrix Enhanced Desktop: Citrix Enhanced Desktop is a component which is installed by default with the XenApp Server role installation.  To enable Citrix Enhanced Desktop component for your users manually in case of restricted environments by temporarily disabling the restrictions: login to […]

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A Step-By-Step Screencast of Upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free

As most of you know that Microsoft offering a Free upgrade to Windows for all Windows 7 users, if they upgrade within 1 years of Windows 10 release.  Here is a step-by-step screencast procedure to be followed for successfully upgrading to Windows 10. Pre-requisites: In order for you to receive Windows 10 upgrade, your system has to meet below minimum requirements Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1): You need to have Service Pack 1 installed for Windows 7.  You can check the Windows version using “Winver” command. Your Windows 7 is NOT of Enterprise edition. You can check the Windows […]

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FIX: The request does not contain a certificate template extension or the CertificateTemplate request attribute

Scenario: You require to generate a SSL Certificate from your enterprise CA to implement SSL communication for a web site on your Web Server.  You are running your web site under IIS on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Web server.  You have your enterprise CA hosted on Windows Server 2012 within your domain.  You create a Certificate request .Req file using “Create Certificate Request…” from IIS and use that .Req file on your CA console to submit the request using “Submit new request…” option, then your CA console reports the below mentioned error message and doesn’t generate you a certificate […]

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