This is a listing of all articles on this blog grouped alphabetically by topic. Below each listed article you find the tags assigned to it and the date when it was first published.
64-Bit Windows (x64)
.NET Applications on Windows x64 – Easy? Yes and No
.NET, Assembly, Managed, Unmanaged, x64, x86
February 2010
x64 Divided by Two is NOT x32!
CPU, History of Computing, x64, x86
July 2009
Where is the Hosts File on Windows x64?
hosts, Redirection, system32, SysWOW64, x64
June 2009
Registry Reflection in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 x64? Gone for Good!
Redirection, Reflection, x64
March 2009
x64? My Terminal Servers Run Just Fine With 32 Bits and 8/12/16 GB RAM!
AWE, PAE, Terminal Services, Virtual Memory
May 2008
Windows x64 – All the Same Yet Very Different, Part 7: File System and Registry Redirection, Registry Reflection
Registry, x64
April 2008
Windows x64 – All the Same Yet Very Different, Part 6: COM, DLLs and Processes
COM, DLLs, Process, x64
April 2008
Windows x64 – All the Same Yet Very Different, Part 5: NTVDM, Services, WoW64
NTVDM, WoW64, x64
March 2008
Windows x64 – All the Same Yet Very Different, Part 4: Code Trees, Drivers
Code Trees, Drivers, x64
February 2008
Windows x64 – All the Same Yet Very Different, Part 3: CPUs, AMD64, Intel 64, EM64T, Itanium
AMD64, EM64T, Intel 64, Itanium, Terminal Services, x64
February 2008
Windows x64 – All the Same Yet Very Different, Part 2: Kernel Memory, /3GB, PTEs, (Non-) Paged Pool
/3GB, Blue Screen, BSOD, Kernel, Non-Paged Pool, Paged Pool, System PTE, Terminal Services, x64
January 2008
Windows x64 – All the Same Yet Very Different, Part 1: Virtual Memory
Terminal Services, Virtual Memory, Virtualization, x64
January 2008
Citrix / Terminal Services / Remote Desktop Services
Citrix Products 2010: A Wish List
Citrix, Provisioning Server, SCCM, XenApp, XenClient, XenDesktop
November 2009
What is a CTP Meeting all about?
Citrix, CTP
November 2009
New XenDesktop 4 Licensing Model: Flexibility? Yes, but at what Cost?
Citrix, Licensing, XenDesktop
October 2009
Four Ways to Increase the Capacity of Your Citrix XenApp Farm
Capacity, Citrix, Kernel, Memory, Scale Out, Scale Up, Terminal Services, Virt
June 2009
How to Configure Font Smoothing on Presentation Server and XenApp
Citrix, ClearType, Font Smoothing
July 2008
Finally! Font Smoothing Over RDP/ICA on Server 2003
Citrix, ClearType, Font Smoothing, Terminal Services
July 2008
The Most Interesting New Feature of Server 2008 Terminal Services / XenApp 5.0? Why, Font Smoothing!
Citrix, ClearType, Font Smoothing, Terminal Services
May 2008
Undocumented Program Neighborhood Command Line Switches
Citrix, PNA, Program Neighborhood
October 2007
Taming Black Holes: Parallel Session Creation
Black Hole Effect, Citrix, Logon, Session, Terminal Services
October 2007
ClearType Bandwidth Revisited – Testing 32 Bit Color Depth
Bandwidth, ClearType, Font Smoothing, RDP, Terminal Services
September 2007
Programmatically Determining Terminal Server Mode on Windows Server 2008
Application Server Mode, Remote Administration Mode, Script, Terminal Services
September 2007
Bandwidth Requirements for ClearType over RDP
Bandwidth, ClearType, Font Smoothing, RDP, Terminal Services
August 2007
Windows Server 2008: Architectural Changes Relevant to Terminal Services #2
Citrix, ClearType, Font Smoothing, Terminal Services
August 2007
Windows Server 2008: Architectural Changes Relevant to Terminal Services #1
Kernel, Non-Paged Pool, Paged Pool, System PTE, Terminal Services
July 2007
Miscellaneous
VXI: How a Customer With Real Scalability Problems Uses Virtualization
Christmas, sepago, Virtualization
December 2009
My Take on ChromeOS? It will be Successful when End Users can Manage their Photos and Music in the Cloud
ChromeOS, Cloud
November 2009
Which Image File Format (GIF/PNG/JPG) to Choose – a Consultant’s Answer
Consulting, GIF, JPG, Photography, PNG
August 2009
Programming Sins Regarding the Registry (Using the Example of Microsoft Excel)
Absolute Path, Excel, Localization, Programming, Registry, Short Path
August 2009
I Was Interviewed – Twice
About Helge, Interview, sepago
August 2009
Hear Me Speak and Talk to Me
Citrix, Speaking Engagement, x64
June 2009
Tales from the Crypt – EFS and the Upgrade to Windows 7 RC
Certificate, EFS, Encryption, Security, Upgrade
May 2009
You’ll Know Me by My Shirt at Citrix iForum / Synergy / Summit 2009
Citrix, iForum, Summit, Synergy
April 2009
New sepago blog on SCCM (German!)
KMS, SCCM, sepago
March 2009
Itanium (IA-64), an Obituary
AMD64, CPU, EM64T, History of Computing, Intel 64, Itanium, x64
March 2009
How to Build a State of the Art Backup System for Your Personal Data
Backup, Restore
February 2009
Choosing a Future-Proof Internal DNS Domain Name: Mission Impossible?
DNS
September 2008
My New Book is Out: Windows Server 2008 Command Line Reference
Command line, Tool
September 2008
New Blog in Town
sepago
November 2007
My Free Tools
How to Easily Monitor System Performance with the new DiskLED 1.1
Free Tool, Hard Drive, Monitoring, Performance, Performance Counter
November 2009
DiskLED – A Flexible Hard Disk and General System Activity Indicator System Tray Applet
Free Tool, Hard Drive, Monitoring, Performance, Performance Counter
October 2009
ParseCitrixLicense Now Supports XenDesktop Licenses, Too
Citrix, Free Tool, Licensing
August 2008
Free Tool to Help You Better Understand What is Inside a Citrix License File
Citrix, Free Tool, Licensing
June 2008
Free Tool – List Registry Links (REG_LINK)
Free Tool, Link, Redirection, Registry, x64
May 2008
Free Tool: Refresh the Desktop Programmatically
Desktop, Free Tool, SHChangeNotify
November 2007
Performance / Sizing
How to Analyze Kernel Performance Bottlenecks (and Find that ATI’s Catalyst Drivers Cause 50% CPU Utilization)
ATI, CPU, Drivers, Kernel, Performance
January 2010
How Much Memory Does a Database/File/Print/Terminal/Web Server Need?
Memory, Performance, Server, Terminal Services
July 2009
Soup Up Your Terminal Server: Optimizing Explorer’s Network Performance
ADM, Explorer, Group Policy, Optimization, Terminal Services
November 2007
Scripting
Syntax Highlighting PowerShell Code in HTML – With a PowerShell Script
PowerShell, Script, Syntax Highlighting
January 2010
How to List All Installed Applications From the Command Line
Applications, Script, WMI, WMIC
January 2010
PowerShell Script Lists App-V Package Dependencies (Dynamic Suite Composition, DSC)
App-V, PowerShell, Script
January 2010
How to Determine the Windows Installation Date with and without PowerShell
Date/Time, PowerShell, Systeminfo, WMI
September 2009
Useful PowerShell Scriptlets for Files and Folders
EFS, PowerShell, Script
September 2009
Puzzle: Delete Directory Content Without Deleting the Directory Itself (on the Command Line)
Batch file, Command line, Puzzle
August 2009
How to Find and List Unsigned Executable Files
Digital Signature, Script, Security, Signtool
May 2009
How to Run Console Programs Without a Console Window
Batch file, Console, Free Tool
August 2008
Security
How Forcing Password Changes Actually Weakens Security
Password, Security
June 2009
Do You Still Hide Your Share$?
DFS, IT Legend, Security
March 2009
Tips and Tricks, New Articles and Tools
New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Windows (7 and 2008 R2), PowerShell and Citrix
Active Directory, Application Streaming, Defragmenting, DFS, Domain controller stickiness, EdgeSight, ETW, Features, Mandatory Profile, Microsoft Knowledge Base, Migration, PowerShell, Printing, PSExec, RDP, Resource Manager, SConfig, Security, SSD, System State Analyzer, UPHClean, User Profile Manager, User Profiles, WebInterface, Windows Features, x64, XenDesktop
January 2010
New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Windows, Hyper-V, Citrix, PowerShell and Application Streaming / App-V
App-V, Application Streaming, Citrix, Hyper-V, PowerShell, Robocopy, User Profiles
November 2009
New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Bugs, Annoyances, PowerShell and some other Stuff
Active Directory, Capacity, Cool Stuff, File Server, Group Policy, ICA Client, Notepad++, Office 2007, PowerShell, Registry, Robocopy, Security, Upgrade, Virtualization, WMI
September 2009
New Web Content Actually Worth Reading (August 2009)
AdminSDHolder, Capacity, Cool Stuff, DWM, File Screening, File Server, File Server Resource Manager, GUID, ICA Client, Migration, PowerShell, Quota, Registry.pol, SConfig, Server Core, User Profile Manager, User Profiles, WDDM
August 2009
New Web Content Actually Worth Reading (June 2009)
Citrix, Cool Stuff
June 2009
File Copy Performance to USB Drive Oscillating Between Fast and Slow
Cache, Hard Drive, Performance, USB
May 2009
Cleaning up the Mess Left Behind by Multiple EFS Certificates
Certificate, Cipher.exe, EFS, Encryption, Security
May 2009
How to Prevent Users from Changing Permissions on File Servers
ACE, DACL, Permission, SetACL, Share
January 2009
User Profiles
Poll: Do Companies Use Local or Roaming Profiles for Desktop PCs?
Desktop PCs, Local Profiles, Poll, Roaming Profiles, User Profiles
March 2010
Citrix User Profile Manager 5 Years Ago: Birth
Citrix, sepago, User Profile Manager, User Profiles
February 2010
Are Mandatory User Profiles Deleted at Logoff – or Cached?
Mandatory Profile, User Profiles
January 2010
Fixing Office 2007’s Quick Access Toolbars With Citrix User Profile Manager
Citrix, Terminal Services, User Profile Manager, User Profiles, XenApp
December 2009
Should Roaming User Profiles Be Backed Up?
Backup, Shadow Copies, User Profiles
December 2009
Profile Hell – The Reality of Windows User Profiles
User Profiles
October 2009
Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM) and the Broken Rootdrive
ACRegL.exe, Application Compatibility Scripts, AppSetup, Citrix, GetPaths.cmd, RootDrive, SetPaths.cmd, Terminal Services, User Profile Manager, User Profiles, UsrLogon.cmd
September 2009
Replicating User Profiles Between Sites (With or Without DFS) – Why it Should be Avoided
Atomicity, Data Center, DFS, DFS-R, Disaster Recovery, Latency, Multi-Master, Replication, TrueCopy, User Profiles
July 2009
New KB Articles on User Profiles (April to May 2009)
Citrix, MS KB, User Profile Manager, User Profiles
June 2009
Folder De-Localization with Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM)
Citrix, Localization, User Profile Manager
May 2009
User Profile and Home Directory Storage: Distributing the Load Across Multiple File Servers
DFS, File Server, Home Directory, User Profiles
April 2009
Microsoft Tackles the “Last Writer Wins” Problem of Roaming Profiles in Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2
Last Writer Wins, NTUser.dat, Terminal Services, User Profiles
April 2009
New Articles on User Profiles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (March 2009)
MS KB, User Profiles
April 2009
Citrix User Profile Manager: How Registry Exclusion Lists Can Mess Up Group Policy Processing
Citrix, Group Policy, User Profile Manager
February 2009
Mandatory Profiles – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Mandatory Profile, User Profile Manager, User Profiles
February 2009
Citrix User Profile Manager: User Store Design Recommendations
Citrix, User Profile Manager
January 2009
User Profile Design: A Primer
Folder Redirection, Terminal Services, User Profiles
January 2009
Enter ProfileNurse – Your Skilled Profile Care Professional
User Profiles
December 2008
Deleting User Profiles – Correctly
User Profiles
December 2008
How to Reduce the Size of Roaming Profiles
Folder Redirection, Quota, Terminal Services, User Profiles
November 2008
Troubleshooting User Profile Problems on Vista and Server 2008 – But How?
Event Tracing for Windows, User Profiles
October 2008
Deleting a Local User Profile – Not as easy as one Might Assume
User Profiles
October 2008
Corrupt User Profiles – Do They Even Exist?
User Profiles
July 2008
Another IT Legend
All Users, Default User, Hive, IT Legend, NTUser.dat, Registry, User Profiles
December 2007
Why is (Almost) Everybody Wrong About HKU\.Default?
Desktop, IT Legend, Registry, User Profiles
November 2007
Virtualization
Virtualization – Old Hat?
Virtualization
October 2009
Virtualization? Nothing But Lies!
Virtualization
September 2009
Is VMware Clustering / VMotion Complex Compared to Microsoft Failover Clustering?
Cluster, VMotion, VMware
April 2009
VMotion Is Hyped by Consultants, But Do Admins Even Use It?
Cluster, Live Migration, Virtualization, VMotion
April 2009
VMware vs. Microsoft: Why Memory Overcommitment is Useful in Production and Why Microsoft Denies it
Hypervisor, Page Sharing
September 2008
Windows General
Eating Microsoft’s Dog Food – A Self-Experiment With Windows 7, Part 3: Usage
Applications, Drivers, Portable App
March 2009
Eating Microsoft’s Dog Food – A Self-Experiment With Windows 7, Part 2: Installation
Diskpart, Resmon, Setup, VHD
March 2009
Eating Microsoft’s Dog Food – A Self-Experiment With Windows 7, Part 1: Preparation
Junction, Mklink, Robocopy, Setup, VHD
March 2009
Undocumented Changes to the Cluster.exe Command Line Tool in Server 2008
Cluster
June 2008
Group Policy Preferences: Why Windows Server 2008 Will Change the Way You Work
Group Policy, Group Policy Preferences, User Profiles
November 2007
Dirquota – Automagically Manage File System Quotas
File Server Resource Manager, FSRM, Quota
October 2007
Windows Server 2008 Component Posters
Posters, Server 2008, Windows Components
August 2007
Windows Internals
Which Software Installed That Driver – And When?
Date/Time, Drivers, Free Tool, Registry, Setup
December 2009
The 30 Second File Copy Bug, or: EFS = Bad Performance?
Bug, EFS, Performance
December 2009
Registry Fun (Working With Hive Files)
.DAT, .REG, API, Hive, Privilege, Reg.exe, Regedit.exe, Registry, User Profiles
August 2009
Hard Links and Permissions / ACLs
Attribute, DACL, Hard Link, Owner, Permission, SACL
May 2009
Hard Links, Soft (Symbolic) Links and Junctions in NTFS: What Are They (For)?
Hard Link, Junction, Mklink, NTFS, Soft Link, Symbolic Link
April 2009
Printer Driver Isolation in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2
Isolation, Print Server, Printer Driver, PrintIsolationHost.exe, Spooler, Spoolsv.exe
April 2009
Permissions: A Primer, or: DACL, SACL, Owner, SID and ACE Explained
DACL, Owner, Permission, SACL, Security Descriptor, SetACL, SID
March 2009
Internet Explorer in Protected Mode – How the Low Integrity Environment Gets Created
Internet Explorer, Mandatory Integrity Control
January 2009
Why Disabling the Creation of 8.3 DOS File Names Will Not Improve Performance. Or Will It?
File System, NTFS, Performance
September 2008
Why Vista’s System Restore is Dangerous and What to do About it
Restore Point, System Restore
December 2007
