Archive for the ‘group policy’ Category
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Do you remember the old days when we used the hide drives.adm template to hide specified drives along with some kind of hide drives calculator to get the proper value ? So if we wanted to hide drives for Domain Users but not the Domain Admins, we had to create ...
Posted in group policy, provisioning services, terminal services, xenapp, xendesktop | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
I have posted a new Tuning Policy for Citrix XenApp 6 available in the Download section of this blog. Most of the registry keys have been imported from the previous Terminal Server & XenApp Tuning Tips Group Policy v1.1. There are some Group Policy Best Practices templates around, but the power ...
Posted in group policy, terminal services, xenapp | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Managing printer drivers in Citrix environments have been a pain for a long time. Luckily the Citrix Universal Printer (CUP) solves all these problems. I have big customers relaying only on this one printer.
To configure CUP open XenApp Advanced Configuration and right click Policies to create a new policy
HDX Plug-n-Play ...
Posted in group policy, xenapp, xendesktop | 2 Comments »
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Information from Microsoft KB976002 :
A Browser Choice application is available to users who are located in member countries of the European Economic Area. The application is available to download through Windows Update.
This application creates a shortcut on your desktop. This shortcut lets you visit a Web page in which you ...
Posted in group policy, windows | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
By now you have probably Created a Central Store for Group Policy Administrative Templates and imported the Terminal Server & XenApp Tuning Group Policy, but what about backup? Did you know that Microsoft have created Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) scripting samples that makes it extremely fast and easy to ...
Posted in group policy, windows | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
In earlier versions of Windows, all the default Administrative Template files are added to the ADM folder of a Group Policy object (GPO) on a domain controller. The GPOs are stored in the SYSVOL folder. You can see this part in your own domain by navigating to \\FQDN\SYSVOL\FQDN\Policies. In that ...
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Installation of Citrix XenApp 5.0 Feature Pack 2 have a lot of prerequisites and they all have to be installed in the right order. The easiest way is to download the XenApp 5.0 Feature Pack 2 ISO from Citrix and run the wizard. This will install all the other prerequisites ...
Posted in group policy, provisioning services, xenapp, xendesktop | 4 Comments »
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
All credits go to Pierre Marmignon for his excellent post listing up all the XenDesktop Tuning Tips and Helge Klein for Additional Windows Explorer Tuning. I have created a Group Policy based on these tips. The following is included in the policy :
Operations System Tuning for XenDesktop
Additional Windows ...
Posted in group policy, xendesktop | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
All credits go to Pierre Marmignon for his excellent post this weekend listing up all the Terminal Server & XenApp Tuning Tips. I have created a Group Policy based on these tips with OS W2K3/W2K8 and XenApp 4.x/5.x. The following is included in the policy :
Operations System Tuning & XenApp ...
Posted in group policy, terminal services, xenapp | 29 Comments »
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Adobe recently released the Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1 which fixes critical vulnerability that would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Hopefully it also fixes the problems people are experiencing with Roaming of Application Data on Terminal Servers. I ...
Posted in appdeploy, group policy, terminal services, windows, xenapp | 2 Comments »
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