Active Directory

Naming Active Directory Forest Root Domain and Sub Domains in Windows Server 2008 R2

When you are designing or re-structuring your Active Directory Infrastructure, you’ll have to decide upon choosing appropriate naming so as to span your Active Directory Infrastructure for your future. Naming Active Directory Forest Root Domain and Sub Domains Minimum number of characters length for naming a AD Forest Root Domain is 1 characters and it should be an alpha numeric.  Say 1.lan, a.lan, etc., but you should have at least one alphabet in the top domain name say xyw.a001, abc.01a,etc., ————————— Deployment Configuration Verification of forest name failed. The domain DNS name “.lan” has an invalid format. DNS names can […]

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Citrix, Networking

Compreshensive list of Citrix Ports and Utility to test their status

Its very often requirement, while configuring or troubleshooting Citrix technologies w.r.t network access and issues, to know the ports that are being used by respective Citrix technology.  Here is a Compreshensive list of Citrix Ports and Utility to test their status. Compreshensive list of Citrix Ports 1.       ICA#1494< ?xml:namespace prefix = "o" /> 2.       RDP#3389 3.       CGP#2598 4.       IMA#2512 5.       AMC#2513 6.       XML#8080 7.       License Manager Daemon#27000 8.       Citrix Vendor Daemon#7279 9.       License Management Console#8082 10.   Citrix Receiver#80 11.   Citrix Receiver#443 12.   Offline Plug-in-SMB#445 13.   Power & Capacity Management Agent#11161 14.   SQL#1433 15.   Hyper-V#8100 16.   SSH#22 17.   VNC#5900 18.   NTP#123 […]

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