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By Martin, on July 19th, 2011
(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
By Martin, on July 18th, 2011
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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By Fred, on July 13th, 2011
Recently Citrix released a new tool KeepMeLoggedIn on their blog http://blogs.citrix.com/2011/06/02/keepmeloggedin/.
This tool will be added to the next version op XenApp as a feature, see for more information http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128579.
I investigated the new Citrix tool KeepMeLoggedIn in an environment where also RES Workspace Manager is active.
First a little explanation about the tool without
By Roland, on July 8th, 2011
Microsoft Windows operates on multiple processor architectures, most notably x86 and x64. User data and configuration settings are stored in a user profile. This user profile includes COM registration, file and registry virtualization information, application settings, and well-known folder locations which may differ from 32-bt and 64-bit versions of Windows. The differences can create
By Roland, on June 22nd, 2011
** Proudly presenting: I’ve reported this issue together with Citrix Support to Microsoft, now there is a fix available, cool! **
Consider the following scenario:
You create a Terminal Services session to a terminal server that is running Windows Server 2008. You connect to more than 100 print queues in the Terminal Services session. You try
By Martin, on June 17th, 2011
When starting a session with a non-administrator account on a Windows 2003 XenApp Server, a screen flicker occurs when a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application is launched in the terminal server session. Microsoft Office applications (like PowerPoint) are using the WPF for example.
When using RES Workspace Manager, the screen flicker results in a session refresh due
By Martin, on June 9th, 2011
FLTMC.exe is a Filter Management Control Program. It is a command-line utility that is used for common minifilter driver management operations. Normally it is used by developers to load and unload minifilter drivers, attach or detach these filters to volumes and enumerate instances, minifilter drivers and volumes.
BSOD’s are often caused by one or
By Martin, on June 8th, 2011
Microsoft has just released a new hotfix to address an issue with slow logon performance when you use AppData folder redirection.
Consider the following scenario in a network environment:
You configure users to use roaming profiles to log on to a client computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. You
By Martin, on May 20th, 2011
There are several ways to configure a Network File Share (NFS) on a Windows Server 2008 R2 so that a Unix system (such as XenServer) can connect to it.
CTX128116 – How to Use a Windows 2008 Network File Share as a Storage Repository for XenServer describes how to use anonymous access to the
By Martin, on May 12th, 2011
This article describes how to capture a Windows Kernel dump from a Provisioned virtual disk using a local hard drive.
In previous versions of Microsoft Windows (XP/2003/2000), the paging file was required to be on the same partition of the operating system. Because of this restriction, kernel level dump files could not be redirected
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