A couple of weeks ago Microsoft came to Inter Access to give a Windows 8 Demo Mania event, they mentioned the Scenario-based RDS deployment so that triggered me to look into it and the result is this video. I hope this clarifies how scenario based deployment works:
Archive for RDS
MDOP: Microsoft UE-V, first look
After installation you can browse to the installation directory and start the Microsoft UE-V Generator, this provides a couple of options:
- Create a settings location template
- Edit a settings location template
- Validate a settings location template
RES: User Settings – adding extra settings (good website tip)
I was helping out on a project with XA.65 and RES WM 2011 in combination with mandatory profiles. The customer wanted to pre-define some settings in Office using the Run-Once option but after some tests we noticed that these User settings weren’t preserved, obviously the files and registry settings modified to make these changes weren’t in the Global Settings Template for the Office installation we’re using.
Category: Microsoft, RDS, TS, Workspace Manager |
Tags: Add, Mandatory Profiles, RES Software, User Settings
Citrix: Remove Favorites from the Explorer in Windows 7/ Windows 2008 R2
I often publish a desktop in my projects and most of the times the new favorites folder in the explorer has to be removed because it’s not easily managed. I found the following method is pretty straightforward and works too.
Yuri Haak and a couple of other smart guys figured this out on the RESUG forum so I took their tips and made some automation possible. To change the reg keys that can remove the favorites from the explorer you first have to change the rights on the registry key, I did this by using Helge Klein’s SetACL which is an easy tool for such small (but tricky) adjustments.
Microsoft: Maximum number of groupmemberships for users (MaxTokenSize)
Today on of my colleagues was telling me about a Windows 7 deployment that was configured trough GPP but he noticed that not all the GPP settings where set somehow. He found a quick fix by removing the user from all the groups he was nested in, log the user in and add the user to all the groups again. When I heard this problem I knew I had seen this before in an environment with users in +200 nested groups in Windows 2008 R2. So I told him it could be the MaxTokenSize that has to be set to a proper value, Microsoft has an KB article to do so.
Category: Microsoft, RDS, TS, Workspace Manager, XenApp, XenDesktop |
Tags: Groups, MaxTokenSize, Microsoft
RES Automation Manager: Add fonts on Windows Server 2008 R2
Today while working on an unattended installation for a Citrix XenApp 6 on Windows Server 2008 R2 installation the customer asked me to add some fonts to the default installation. After some searching I found a VBS script that could do this, I had to change the script a bit because it gave some errors:
Category: Automation Manager, Citrix, Microsoft, RDS, TS, XenApp, XenDesktop |
Tags: Automation Manager, Fonts, RES Software, Scirpts, Windows Server 2008
