Leee Jeffries

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Creating a custom Parallels RAS connection in LoginVSI

I was doing some load testing and needed to also connect to a Parallels RAS hosted desktop. This can be ahieved by installing the RAS client on your LoginVSI Launcher and editing the connection string as follows in the Management console: C:\Program Files\Parallels\Client\TSClient.exe s!='{Server}' t!='443' m!='2' r! u!='{Username}@{Domain}' q!='{Password...

I was doing some load testing and needed to also connect to a Parallels RAS hosted desktop. This can be ahieved by installing the RAS client on your LoginVSI Launcher and editing the connection string as follows in the Management console: C:\Program Files\Parallels\Client\TSClient.exe s!='...

Request an SSL Certificate from a Windows CA without Web Enrolment

I was in a situation with a client where we did not have access directly to the certificate authority and web enrolment was not available. I used this process to request a wildcard certificate that I could use for the duration of my project. I’m covering here, how to use certreq and certutil to request, generate and accept the certificate from the CA. This is done using a custom .ini file th...

I was in a situation with a client where we did not have access directly to the certificate authority and web enrolment was not available. I used this process to request a wildcard certificate that I could use for the duration of my project. I’m covering here, how to use certreq and certutil t...

The New LoginPI – What’s New?

So today the new version of LoginPI is released, personally I loved LoginPI2 and thought that the proactive monitoring aspect had a lot of scope for businesses running Virtual Desktops, helping to ensure up-time, performance and availability was maintained. We all know, you build your nice new desktop image; its quick and fast and you’re proud. After a good few months of updates and changes i...

So today the new version of LoginPI is released, personally I loved LoginPI2 and thought that the proactive monitoring aspect had a lot of scope for businesses running Virtual Desktops, helping to ensure up-time, performance and availability was maintained. We all know, you build your nice new ...

Migrating AD Integrated DNS Zones between DNS Servers

So you’ve got some DNS Zones on your Domain Controllers and you’re building a test lab or another domain that you want to copy these to. Easy right – not so easy if they are AD integrated zones. This means the files for these zones are not stored in C:\Windows\System32\dns an normal, they are actually stored and replicated to all DCs inside AD. I had a requirement to move an integrated forwa...

So you’ve got some DNS Zones on your Domain Controllers and you’re building a test lab or another domain that you want to copy these to. Easy right – not so easy if they are AD integrated zones. This means the files for these zones are not stored in C:\Windows\System32\dns an normal, they are a...

Script for Generating Random Email Content for Testing

I’m working on a project at the moment where I need to generate alot of email content for a test users mailbox. I’ve written a script for this and thought it might be useful to others. I’ve uploaded it to Github and embedded it here. This script takes publicly available open license content in the form of an ebook, a bunch of audio files, a bunch of video files and a bunch of images and rand...

I’m working on a project at the moment where I need to generate alot of email content for a test users mailbox. I’ve written a script for this and thought it might be useful to others. I’ve uploaded it to Github and embedded it here. This script takes publicly available open license content in...