A recent discussion with a colleague brought this topic to my attention which I have not discussed in detail in my series on Windows x64:
Memory scalability of 32-bit Terminal Servers
Many people seem to think that on 32-bit Windows only specially adapted applications can access memory above 4 GB. Since such applications are rare that would effectively mean that putting more than 4 GB RAM into a terminal server is a waste of resources. Continue reading ‘x64? My Terminal Servers Run Just Fine With 32 Bits and 8/12/16 GB RAM!’
Much has been written about the many new features of Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services. Now, with the upcoming release of Citrix XenApp 5.0 (Project Delaware), Citrix updates its best-selling product and ports it to the new platform. Brian Madden analyzes whether it is still worth buying Citrix XenApp / Presentation Server on top of pure Windows Terminal Services. Continue reading ‘The Most Interesting New Feature of Server 2008 Terminal Services / XenApp 5.0? Why, Font Smoothing!’
Recently I got into a very interesting discussion with my colleague Nicholas Dille on various aspects of Windows x64. One question he brought up was especially intriguing: Knowing about registry redirection, it is not astonishing to find that the 32-bit version of the registry key HKLM\Software\Classes (aka HKCR) gets to be HKLM\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node. But there is also HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Classes!? How can there be two different Wow6432Node 32-bit keys for one 64-bit key? Continue reading ‘Free Tool – List Registry Links (REG_LINK)’
