Microsoft Rollup printing core components in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft has released an update rollup for the printing core components that are included in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2.

Check the article at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2647753 Issues that the update rollup resolves

This update rollup resolves the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles:

Picture Manager may
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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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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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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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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.

XenApp and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP1)

This article outlines some information from Citrix regarding the support and known issues of XenApp and Windows 2008 R2 (SP1). Citrix supports Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with XenApp 6. XenApp 5.0 and Fundamentals 3.0 are not supported on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and XenApp 6

Check CTX122601 to get an overview of known issues
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Create VMs automatically on Hyper-V 2008 R2 with the PVS Streamed VM Setup Wizard

This blog (by Andreas Skuban on The Citrix Blog) describes how to create VMs automatically on Hyper-V 2008 R2 / SCVMM 2008 R2 with the Provisioning Services 5.6 SP1 “Streamed VM Setup Wizard”. «Continue Reading»

Terminal Server (Citrix) freeze or hang

A nice collection of articles regarding hanging or unresponsive servers.
Very difficult to troubleshoot and to pinpoint the root cause. Most heard: users cannot connect anymore, Remote Desktop is not working anymore, remote control not possible, server sometimes doesn’t even respond to a PING request, switching off/on is the only way out. «Continue Reading»