RES Software User Group » Utility http://www.resug.com automators & workspacers unite! Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:58:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Deploying utilities with RES Custom Ressources http://www.resug.com/deploying-utilities-with-res-custom-ressources http://www.resug.com/deploying-utilities-with-res-custom-ressources#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:28:29 +0000 Yuri Haak http://www.resug.com/?p=1598 lightbulbEven though some of us have all the fun of working on a daily basis with PowerFuse, we must not forget the folks who are new to this technology. This artice will show how to take ordinary utilities and use them within the PowerFuse environment. Using utilities is always a necessity, as eventhough PowerFuse does alot, there will always be specific conditions which may warrant extra tools…

hstartFor our example I have chosen a free utility called Hstart, which is quite usefull as the built-in notify box in PowerFuse  has a few shortcommings which can be annoying.  For example, the PowerFuse app will not be launched until the attached notification has timed out or the user has clicked Ok. So until we get that fixed, this neat’o little tool can help you with that and much more. For example, if you need to run a something hidden, it can help you do just that. Here to the right is a screenshot of the utility’s options (click all graphics to enlarge).

To deploy and use it, here’s a suggestion.  Put the hstart.exe into your Custom Resources in the PowerFuse console. That way the utility will be distributed to all your PowerFuse enabled computers. This is done in the background by the RES Service running on all the PowerFuse computers, so this will happen no matter if a user is logged in or not. This is where you would do it:

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Once uploaded, you can refer anywhere in the PowerFuse environment to the utility’s commandline as %rescustomresources%\folder path in the console\yourfile. In my case above it would look like this:

%rescustomresources%\RESutils\hstart.exe (note: Hstart is not made by RES, it’s just me being lazy not creating a dedicated folder :-) Anyway, the cool thing is that you this way don’t have to worry about distributing the utility, nor the absolute target path to where it’s located.

You can download the Hstart utility here

]]> http://www.resug.com/deploying-utilities-with-res-custom-ressources/feed 0 ESearch! A new PowerFuse shell search utility http://www.resug.com/esearch-a-new-powerfuse-shell-search-utility http://www.resug.com/esearch-a-new-powerfuse-shell-search-utility#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:43:20 +0000 Yuri Haak http://www.resug.com/?p=1535 As of yesterday, RES Software launched a new software utility called ESearch. ESearch is a utility to make search capabilities available in the RES PowerFuse shell. It’s a very small executable that can be downloaded from the RES Software Portal site here.

]]> http://www.resug.com/esearch-a-new-powerfuse-shell-search-utility/feed 4 Secret Tools of the Common Crow… http://www.resug.com/secret-tools-of-the-common-crow http://www.resug.com/secret-tools-of-the-common-crow#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:42:22 +0000 Yuri Haak http://resguru.com/?p=835 Swiss Knife In case you wondered where this article went a couple of weeks ago, it had to be pulled and revised at the request of RES, as we incorrectly stated that you could get the tools at RES support. This is not currently the case.  Anyway, this posting was really supposed to have be called Secret tools of the RES Engineer, but then all of a sudden, an old Gary Larson cartoon came to mind, and ruined everything… Damn you Mr. Larson!! ;-)

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Okay… so maybe a spatula isn’t gonna make the 10 o’clock news, but perhaps some other tools which are little known, which are really nice to know about would peak your interest. There is just one catch to this. You’ll have to ask around for the utilities in this article as they were really only written for internal use, but several customers and integrators got copies of them. Please do NOT contact RES Support for these tools.

Nevertheless, you ought to know about them as they can help you speed up a troubleshooting session by having the information available. Perhaps RES will make these things downloadable in the future. If this happens, stick around, RESguru will let you know.

Click here to read the article.

]]> http://www.resug.com/secret-tools-of-the-common-crow/feed 0 Migration Tool for Citrix XenApp http://www.resug.com/migration-tool-for-citrix-xenapp http://www.resug.com/migration-tool-for-citrix-xenapp#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:23:18 +0000 Yuri Haak http://resguru.com/?p=220 Swiss Knife Today RES released a cool utility which will help existing XenApp customers implement PowerFuse way more swiftly. What the tool does is read existing published applications from a serverfarm, create the applications inside PowerFuse and create new PowerFuse managed published applications. It even reads any existing file associations configured in the Xenapp environment – Übercool!

There is a nice PDF which describes things well here: Icon, PDF file  The Migration tool can be downloaded from RES here.

Remember, you saw it first on RESguru.com! ;-)

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