Tag Archive for Profiles

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

Citrix: Mandatory Profiles and Microsoft Online Services Sign In client (User Certificates)

I’ve been working on project where we’re building a XenApp/XenDesktop environment based on Windows 7/Windows 2008R2 with RES Workspace Manager and Automation Manager. One of the design decisions was to use mandatory profiles, which worked pretty great until we had to test the Microsoft Online Services Sign In client. This uses User Certificates which are stored in the user profile.. wait.. Mandatory profiles, stored in the user profile.. That’s not the best combination so I did a search on the (excellent!) RES Software knowledge base and found the following article:

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Citrix Profile Management Cross-platform Settings Beta

Citrix just released Citrix Profile Management Cross-platform Settings Beta available for download at MyCitrix:

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Sepago User Profiles white paper

Sepago released a white paper on Sepago User Profiles, this document describes the concepts behind Windows user profiles and explains common pitfalls and how to avoid them – both with and without the profile optimization solution Citrix User Profile Manager.

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Create mandatory profile and use this in RES Workspace Manager

After my last post I got some feedback about the use of mandatory profiles and how to implement them using RES Workspace Manager. First of all you have to create a mandatory profile for the OS you want to use. Let’s say you want to create a mandatory profile for Windows 7.  Microsoft published a great how-to on their website containing the following steps:

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