This "Tech Tip" article is focused on a very useful Security Setting You might want to enable on your Terminal Servers Farms.

By default, Windows allows Users to store their Network and Messaging (Exchange, .Net Passport) Passwords.

The first problem is that these settings are not stored in the User Profile but locally on the Server in an encrypted base.

The Second problem is that you may want Users to be able to save such informations (When Defining Several Outlook Profiles for User convenience for example) ...

You may have encountered this issue while running a Terminal Server or Citrix XenApp Project.

The Symtoms are quite simple to illustrate : Users are facing (random) significant Logon Delays and the logon process is hanging on "Applying Registry Settings".

According to Microsoft, this can occur if most of the following conditions are met ...

When troubleshooting an EdgeSight 5.0 SP1 Issue on XenApp 4.5 HRP03, I got the Following workaround from Citrix (as originally this is a DotNet Framework Issue) to deal with the "Citrix End User Experiencing Monitoring Service" not starting correctly and Generating DCOM errors event ID 10005 and Event ID 7000 : "The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

To solve this issue ...

When troubleshooting an EdgeSight 5.0 SP1 Issue on XenApp 4.5 HRP03, I got the Following workaround from Citrix (as originally this is a DotNet Framework Issue) to deal with the "Citrix End User Experiencing Monitoring Service" not starting correctly :

Create a SemsService.exe.config file within the %ProgramFiles%\Citrix\EUEM\Service\ folder with the following content

You would say what's the matter with the Article Title "CitrixTools.Net Tools are Slow to Launch" ?

Actually I've been trying to find for weeks why in some cases All the Tools published on this Site were so Slow to Launch in some cases (Not Always).

And Guess What ? ...