Sharing 32 and 64-bit User Profiles

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
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Windows cannot print due to a problem with the current printer setup.

** 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
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Screen flickers when starting WPF applications on Windows Server 2003 TS with ICA

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
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FLTMC.exe: Filter Manager Control Program

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
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Roaming profile users experience slow logons on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 client computers

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
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HOWTO Configure a Network File Share without Anonymous Authentication on Windows Server 2008 R2 for XenServer

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
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HOWTO Recover Windows Kernel Level Dump Files from Provisioned Target

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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Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 with XenApp 6 Known 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 have an event entry every time the server reboots stating that the filter driver ctxaltstr cannot start. It displays the following error message:

“File no found”

Without Service Pack 1, this filter driver starts
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Poor Session Performance with Windows 7 Clients connecting to Windows Server 2003 based XenApp

This cool article from Citrix Support shows an issue regarding Poor Session-Performance with Windows 7 Client connects to Windows Server 2003 Terminalserver. The introduction of Windows 7 clients is the only environment change noted since the beginning of the issue.

Client Operating System Windows 7 and Windows XP SP2, XenApp 5 HRP06 Farm on
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Deploying Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V with MDT

This video from Microsoft Technet, shows howto use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) to simplify the deployment of Windows Server 2008 R2.

Click here to show the video in WMV format.