Archive for the ‘terminal services’ Category

Using Group Policy to hide and map specified drives

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 ...

XenApp 6 Tuning Group Policy for Windows 2008 R2

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 ...

The Best Remote Desktop Manager Applications

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Microsoft recently released a new free tool called Remote Desktop Connection Manager. I'm not going to cover this here, but you should take a look at this post and I highly recommend this article Dynamic Remote Desktop Connection Manager connection list. This is a super cool PowerShell script that makes ...

Get the news from Citrix Synergy 2010

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

Once again I'm on my way to Citrix Synergy for the first time in San Francisco. I have been going to Citrix Synergy (Summit) for the last 10 years and 8 of those have been in Orlando. This year's event have already set a new record in number of Nordic ...

Why Internet Explorer will kill your memory – Part I

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Most customers have delayed the upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8 as long as possible. The reason is memory / CPU usage especially on Terminal Servers, but this applies to personal computers and VDI as well. Some of the biggest web pages in Norway have been promoting upgrades similar ...

How To Fix problem with SAP Gui 710 and Citrix Universal Printer

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

I have been working on many Citrix / SAP implementation, but never printing via Citrix Universal Printer (CUP). If you use SAPLPD because your environment is not at the necessary patch level to use the recommended control printing the printer name has a limitation of 40 characters. This becomes a problem ...

Technology Preview of Citrix XenApp for W2K8 R2

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

The Technology Preview of Citrix XenApp for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is now available for download. New features : More users, faster logons - Get up to 20% more users per server with XenApp on the R2 platform and faster logons with new Profile management streaming technology that improves user profile ...

Thin Client PC the old school way with ICA DOS

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Way back we converted old computers to Thin Client PCs using ICA DOS. We created this funny Jackass style video for promotion and I thought it would be fun sharing it. For the new school way of converting take a look at this post : Turn old PC into Thin Client ...

Citrix XenDesktop 3.0 FP1 POC hosted on VMware ESX 3.5

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

I am working on a new Citrix XenDesktop Proof of Concept (POC) hosted on VMware ESX. During the setup I discovered some error messages I would like to share with you. Error : "The hosting infrastructure could not be reached at the specified address" Solution : Create a host file entry that resolves ...

Unattended : Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1.2 working with AppData

Friday, July 17th, 2009

Adobe recently released the Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1.2 Update. Finally it fixes the problems people are experiencing with Roaming of Application Data on Terminal Servers. Download Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1 English / UK and extract the files with this command : C:\AdbeRdr910_en_US_Std.exe -nos_ne All my scripts are based on the ScriptFrameWork developed ...