Thursday, February 9, 2012

Wrong Time/Date on files showing up on Citrix sessions ICA and local computer

Files created on a server via RDP show different time stamp when checked via ICA.

Time zone policy settings issue.

You need this  http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127926
and


• Disable - Windows Components
/Terminal Services/Client/Server data redirection/Allow Time Zone in a GPO
• Copy Hotfix tzuser.dll to C:\Program Files\Citrix\System32
• Created a Citrix Police to Enable "Do not estimate local time for legacy clients" and Enable "Do not use Clients local time"




http://forums.citrix.com/message.jspa?messageID=1362140

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Enabled SA account on SQL Express when access is denied

I was unable to enable SA account or enabled Mixed mode authentication. Keep getting access denied errors when trying to do so using a local admin account on the box. Win 7 pro. SQL Express 2008

The steps below helped.

First Attemp:
(NOTE: This didnt work, the mode did change to Mixed but still access denied on SQL to enable SA or add another sysadmin account)

Force SQL server to support mixed-mode authentication.
1. Run REGEDIT
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQLServer
NOTE: This key may vary slightly based on the installed version and instance name.
3. Set "LoginMode" to 2.
4. Restart SQL Server.
(Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285097 )

Second Attempt:
(note: Magic, worked fine.)
Force SQL server to let you in temporarily
1. Go to services.
2. Stop SQL Server.
3. Grab the SQL server command-line (right click the service - properties).  Mine is:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10.SQLEXPRESS\MSSQL\Binn\sqlservr.exe" -sSQLEXPRESS
4. Open an administrative command prompt.
5. Run the command-line from step 3, but add -m -c for single-user maintenance mode command-line.
6. Open another administrative command prompt.
7. Run "sqlcmd -S localhost\SQLEXPRESS" from that same directory (replace with your server and instance name)
8. Now you can do all the stuff everyone told you to do that didn't work.  For example, to create a hero user with administrative accss:

CREATE LOGIN TheBoss WITH PASSWORD='123', DEFAULT_DATABASE=[master], DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=[us_english], CHECK_EXPIRATION=OFF, CHECK_POLICY=OFF
EXEC sys.sp_addsrvrolemember 'theBoss','sysadmin'
GO
9. QUIT and close the command-prompt
10. Go to the SQL Server command-line window and hit ctrl+C.  It will prompt "Do you wish to shutdown SQL Server (Y/N)?" and enter Y.
11. Close the command-prompt
(Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd207004.aspx )

III. Finally, login using your hero:
1. Restart the SQL Server service
2. Login using SQL Server authentication as the user "theBoss" with password "123"
Yewheww...

thanks to MobyDisk on http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlsecurity/thread/60b888bf-30dc-4eaf-bea8-5fd55181f8e5