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That's a fact, XenApp is ALSO mainly use to deploy Rich Web Applications and not only for rich client one.

When you deploy such applications, you may not want users to be able to use the published Internet Explorer to surf the web or be able to access other informations.

To do so, many policies exists, but there are also some "hidden" settings, not present in standard policies but only within specific KB.

Having to deal with such cases, I've created a little custom ADM that is managing ...

Another experience from the field ...

Deploying applications on XenApp, You may have faced this kind of issue : an application is working fine within a published Desktop, but is not launching when published seamless.

In many cases (although it can also be related to a seamless issue), this is because the Application needs "explorer.exe" running (which is the case in a published desktop but not within a published application).

To deal with this problem, you can ...

Working in SBC environments for some years now I've used some best practices documents like the well known Methodology In a Box (MIAB) from Douglas Brown or the MF Tuning Tips from Rick Delingher.

These documents, although really pertinent, are now quite outdated and do not include the latest OS and XenApp releases.

The purpose of this article is an attempt to summarize all Tuning Tips I've found (and also that I'm using) and describe the target operating system / XenApp version(s) they're working for.

Do not hesitate to give us your comments for this Article to be updated with your experience and feedback.

Please note that these informations are provided "as is" and that using these tips is at your own risks.

I was recently working on a large migration project in which we had to clean the users profiles.

To ease Users experience, we had to develop a way to avoid the eternal first run Microsoft Office Popup asking for Username, Company and Initials.

As these settings relies on reg values, this could be easy to define them by logon script.

However, as they are hardcoded within reg binaries values, scripting these settings is not as simple as it could have been ...

This Article is based on another nice article written initially in French by Laurent Falguiere.

Windows 2008 Terminal Services introduce a new functionnality called "Drain Mode".

This new functionnality allows Admins to connect to a Terminal Server while Users can not (Only disconnected sessions will be able to reconnect, while new sessions won't be allowed).

Actually, when a server is configured in this mode ...