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Published by
Helge Klein on
February 25, 2009.
The documentation of Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM, for short) recommends excluding the following registry keys from processing:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
The net effect of this is that the Citrix profiles managed by UPM do not contain any policy settings. The reasoning behind this being: Policies are reapplied anyway during the next logon, so there is no reason to waste CPU cycles on synchronizing such “redundant” information.
Unfortunately, nobody had taken the group policy engine’s own optimizations into account. Continue reading ‘Citrix User Profile Manager: How Registry Exclusion Lists Can Mess Up Group Policy Processing’
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Published by
Helge Klein on
February 23, 2009.
Like most people, I have been accumulating personal data over the decades. While some of it is not too important, other pieces are priceless, especially my pictures and videos. Losing those files would be a nightmare. That kept me searching for the ideal backup mechanism for several years. Although I would not dare say I have found the perfect solution, I have learned a lot in the process and can give solid recommendations. Hence this article. Continue reading ‘How to Build a State of the Art Backup System for Your Personal Data’
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Published by
Helge Klein on
February 17, 2009.
A mandatory profile is a special type of roaming profile. As with a roaming profile, a mandatory profile is copied from its network location to the local machine during logon. But during logoff, changes are not copied back. Instead, the local copy of the mandatory profile is reset to its initial state at the next logon. In essence, mandatory profiles are read-only roaming profiles. This has advantages, but also severe drawbacks. Continue reading ‘Mandatory Profiles – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’
