Windows 7 IPv6 in Enterprise Environments

A very clear article form Helge Klein, about Windows 7 IPv6 in Enterprise environments. Enable or disable, that’s the question!

Profile Update Utility (PuU) by VirtualEngine

A short demonstration of the very cool ”Profile Update Utility” (PuU) included in the Virtual Engine Toolkit (VET) injecting registry files into a Windows 7 mandatory profile quickly and easily.

More information can be found at: http://virtualengine.co.uk/

Unable to Reconnect to a Disconnected Desktop Session in Windows 2008

You launch a published desktop and wait for the idle timeout to disconnect the current session. If you launch the published desktop, then instead of reconnecting to the disconnected desktop session a new session is created on a different server.

There is more than one XenApp 5.0 server with load balanced published desktop. There
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HOWTO Lock Windows with commandline

Well, that’s pretty easy and can be very usefull: rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation

HOWTO Customize Microsoft Office 2010 for Streaming Environments

This Citrix article (CTX124565) provides step-by-step instructions for the successful deployment of Microsoft Office 2010 using the Citrix application streaming feature. 

Office 2010 SP1 is not supported at this time.

More Information regarding Application Streaming in general can be found at the resource section.

Citrix Datastore Backup and Recovery

A cool article on XenAppBlog.com, where is shown how to automatically backup and restore your Citrix DataStore Database on SQL Server Express. Click here to read the full article.

Office 2010 Deployment Kit Transform Files for Citrix Application Streaming

To ensure successful product activation when delivering Microsoft Office 2010 applications with the Citrix Application Streaming feature, the Office 2010 Deployment Kit must be installed on either the client computer or server where the applications are streamed. The transform files found in the zip archive are also required and change the Startup option from
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Windows Sysinternals: Process Explorer 15 & Sysinternals Live

(Windows) Sysinternals is a great collection of tools for troubleshooting purposes. On a regular basis new versions of tools are released. This “What’s new” (July 2011) includes a new version of Process Explorer and an easy link (Sysinternals Live) to a list view of all the available tools.

Process Explorer 15.0

This major update to Process
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Windows 2008 R2 SP1 with XenApp 6 Issue with CtxAltStr Filter Driver

If you install XenApp 6 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1, after successful configuration, you might receive an event entry every time the server reboots that indicates that the filter driver ctxaltstr cannot start “File no found”. Without Service Pack 1, this filter driver is starting!

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