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Yes I copied the annoying spelling error.  Anyways this is to do with the other wise superb AD management pack for Operations Manager 2007. You may get the warning alert on a DC (as I did) saying that the AD Op Master Roles monitor has failed.  This is my case resulted in the afore mentioned, AD Op Master Respone monitor to be set as warning within the health explorer of my DC. Upon a quick investigation it turns out the OomADs.msi hadn't been installed, yes this happens more often than not!  A quick check of the HelperObject folder within C:\Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2007\ showed no sign of the OomADs.msi at all.  I copied this from a working DC and ran it. No reboot but a restart of the System Center Manager service and you are back and running.  You don't even need to clear the health status of the affected DC.  Now things are green across the board!

There are quite a few web pages out there detailing how to get Office 2010 to stream using Citrix Profiler.  I know.  I think I found most of them :) However try as I might I couldn't get Office to consistently work from a streamed profile.  Until I just installed the thing throwing all config and extra installs out.  It just works.  I ran the setup.exe from the profiler and didn't run anything.  I have a KMS server issusing out Office licenses and now my streamed Office 2010 is activated and working. *phew* Edit: One thing I didn't mention was that this was all completed on a bare Windows 7 machine, absolutely nothing was installed - bar the Citrix Profiler. Edit: Also I had to run the installer on a second Windows 7 machine, again clean but this time 64Bit so that I could stream the resulting profile from the XenApp Server if needed.

Morning, I am currently looking into getting AppV working on our XenApp 6 farm.  We use both Citrix and XenApp to deliver applications to our users, this works brilliant for our Windows desktops and laptops however this fails to deliver the same seamless experience for those users without the required client software. This user base of non-Microsoft clients is increasing and the demand for accessing applications irrelevant of which device a user has is also increasing.  So trying to "cut them off at the pass" I'm loking at providing all applications on a platform agnostic delivery mechanism.  XenApp. Sounds pretty simple when I first looked into this, however, as with most things it turns out that it is not.  First I had to get my NetScaler working, weirdly this broke when I put on the SharePoint AppWizard template.  Once working my BB Torch showed my XenApp delivered applications just fine thank you. I followed various websites on delivering AppV applications v