Comments on: XenApp 6 Tuning Group Policy for Windows 2008 R2

By: Trond Eirik Haavarstein

Trond Eirik Haavarstein — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:25:58 +0000

Hi Ken. The GPO for XA6 also applies to XA65 and are ready to go.

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:19:37 +0000

I’m setting up a new XenApp 6.5 farm and using all server 2008 R2 64 bit policies. Will I be able to use this GPO out of the box?

By: Trond Eirik Haavarstein

Trond Eirik Haavarstein — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:14:12 +0000

No Mike, it’s the same. This happened when I moved the blog to a faster hosting company and I needed to re-enter all the downloads.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 07:17:45 +0000

Just noticed a new updated “date” for this Sep 2011. Version is the same. Doest it mean there were updates to it?

By: Trond Eirik Haavarstein

Trond Eirik Haavarstein — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:24:49 +0000

Thanks Haakon, that’s correct. This GPO template is provided as a starting point. Every environment are different, so some customization is always required. The blog article from Daniele are great for verifying the SMB stuff.

By: Haakon

Haakon — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 09:54:16 +0000

The registry settings from KB324446 are valid on a XenApp 6.x server if you are using a Windows Server 2003 as file server. This is because you will be using SMB 1.0.
If the file server is Windows Server 2008/2008R2, then the registry settings has no value.
2008R2 is using SMB 2.0 and doesn’t use the registry values from KB324446.

Read this great blog article: http://www.danieletosatto.com/2010/10/22/smb-tuning-for-xenapp-and-file-servers-on-windows-server-2008/

Haakon

By: Trond Eirik Haavarstein

Trond Eirik Haavarstein — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:11:39 +0000

Hi Michael,

The policy have not been updated since its release in July, so the content on Pierre’s site is more up to date (December 2010).
The best thing would be to sort the registry keys and check them one by one. Still my policy would save you a lot of time.

Please let me know if you find any new or modified registry keys that I should add to the policy. Currently I have no time to do this since I’m working hard on releasing my Citrix XenApp 6 Video Training Course.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:53:37 +0000

Hi, just curious as to how the importable settings you’ve facilitated compare to the following updated article based on the post you listed as a reference:

http://www.citrixtools.net/en/Articles/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/5610/Windows-2008-R2-Remote-Desktop-and-XenApp-6-Tuning-Tips-Update.aspx

By: Trond Eirik Haavarstein

Trond Eirik Haavarstein — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:22:51 +0000

Thanks Fredrik for this in-depth feedback.

By: Fredrik

Fredrik — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:00:42 +0000

@Mark B,
Nice to see someone doing their homework.
As you’ve found – TCP keepalives are hardcoded.
IOPageLockLimit does jack shit.

Lanmanserver settings are good in WS 2000/2003 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 2000/2003 end_of_the_skype_highlighting, solves freezes in TS (logon/off) MS KB 324446. But I bet that it is unnecessary in 2008, will look into deeper some time.

LargeSystemCache won’t give you unstable systems, this is the key for the Memory usage setting in System Options/Performance; enabled prioritizes System cache, disabled prioritizes Programs. In a multi user environment you’d rather set this to System cache as in the adm…