I work with a lot of network storage and video world stuff. While most in the editorial world prefer FinalCut, Avid, Adobe and other tools for video management, I do see the occasional task done in iMovie. By default, iMovie doesn’t support using assets stored on network volumes. However, you can make it. To do so, just use defaults to write com.apple.iMovieApp with a boolean allowNV key marked as true: defaults write com.apple.iMovieApp allowNV -bool TRUE
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Locate the Citrix Datastore
There are times in a Citrix environment where you might have servers pointing to different data stores. You then might get confused about what box is pointing to what datastore location. To find out, open Powershell on the Citrix server and run the following command: cat "c:\program files\citrix\independent mananagement architecture\nf20.dsn"
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Rock the Logging Facilities in Windows Server (aka More Syslog Crap)
The default logs in Windows Server can be tweaked to provide a little better information. This is really helpful, for example, if you’re dumping your logs to a syslog server. Here’s a script that can make it happen with a few little tweaks to how we interpret data (to be run per host, just paste into a Powershell interface as an administrator): auditpol /set /subcategory:"Security State Change" /success:enable /failure:enable auditpol /set /subcategory:"Security System Extension" /success:enable /failure:enable auditpol /set /subcategory:"System Integrity" /success:enable /failure:enable auditpol /set /subcategory:"IPsec Driver" /success:disable /failure:disable auditpol /set /subcategory:"Other System Events" /success:disable /failure:enable auditpol /set /subcategory:"Logon" /success:enable /failure:enable auditpol /set /subcategory:"Logoff" /success:enable /failure:enable auditpol /set /subcategory:"Account Lockout" /success:enable…
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Force Citrix XenApp Uninstalls
At some point in your Citrix experience, you may decide that you need to uninstall and reinstall Xen App or Presentation Server. If and when this happens you will likely need to force the uninstall. Luckily, the mps.msi comes with an operator to CTX_MF_FORCE_SUBSYSTEM_UNINSTALL which can be set to use, rather than hunting through the registry and manually removing entries there. You run the msi through msiexec, as follows: msiexec /x mps.msi /L*v c:\ctxuninstall.log CTX_MF_FORCE_SUBSYSTEM_UNINSTALL=Yes Once uninstalled, you can install anew.
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Ports to Open When Doing Citrix Deployments
When deploying XenApp, there are a few ports that typically need to be open for the solution to work properly. The most common of these are 1603 and 1604, but you may also need to open 1494 and 2598 as well. And of course, 443 and 80 if you’re doing web stuff. So here’s the list and what they do: Admin: 135 Access Gateway Deployment: 443 App Streaming: 445 Citrix ICA thin client protocol: 1494 Citrix ICAbrowser: 1604 Independent Management Architecture: 2512 Management Console: 2513 Citrix Session Reliability Service: 2598 There are also a number of ports that communicate back into your infrastructure, such as LDAP (can be a RODC),…
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Grep, Search, Loops and Basename for Powershell Hotness
Simple request: Search for all files in a directory and the child directories for a specific pattern and then return the filename without the path to the file. There are a few commandlets we end up needing to use: Get-ChildItem: Creates a recursive array of filenames and pipes that output into the For loop. ForEach-Object: Starts a for loop, looping through the output of the command that has been piped into the loop (much easier than an IFS array IMHO). If: This starts the if pattern that ends after the select-string in the below command, but only dumps the $_.PSPath if the pattern is true. Select-String: Searches for the content…
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Shell BUILTINs Available In Powershell
The following are Shell builtins from BSD/Mac that are available in Powershell (note the obvious lack of a builtin command): alias break cd chdir command continue do echo end exit fc for foreach history if kill popd pushd pwd return set switch trap type where while
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Use Syslog on Windows
There are a number of tools available for using Syslog in a Windows environment. I’ll look at Snare as it’s pretty flexible and easy to configure. First download the snare installation executable from http://sourceforge.net/projects/snare. Once downloaded run the installer and simply follow all of the default options, unless you’d like to password protect the admin page, at which point choose that. Note that the admin page is by default only available to localhost. Once installed, run the “Restore Remote Access to Snare for Windows” script. Then open http://127.0.0.1:6161 and click on Network Configuration in the red sidebar. There, we can define the name that will be used in syslog (or leave…
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Heartbleed in Comics
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Stashbox: Turning a Mac Mini Into A Logstash and Kibana Server
You have a lot of boxes. You would like to be able to parse through the logs of all those boxes at the same time, searching for a given timestamp across a set of machines for a specific string (like a filename or a port number). elasticsearch, logstash and kibana are one way to answer that kind of need. This will involve downloading three separate packages (which for this article, we’ll do in /usr/local) and creating a config file. First, install the latest Java JDK. This is available at jdk8-downloads-2133151.html. The following is going to download the latest version of logstash and untar the package into /usr/local/logstash (I like nesting…