Monthly Archive for April, 2009

You’ll Know Helge By His Shirt At Synergy … Maybe, Maybe Not

… because I will be wearing a shirt with the same design on it at Summit/Synergy in Las Vegas starting next Sunday. One way or another I recommend you remember our faces (see below) to catch up with us ;-) I am really looking forward to technical discussions about almost anything.

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Fixing Folder Views on Vista/Server 2008 using Citrix UPM

In a previous article, I described how Windows XP and Server 2003 handle folder views, why those configured for network drives are lost upon logoff and how to correct this behaviour. The last article explained the new design for storing folder views introduced by Windows Vista and Server 2008. But it only hints at a solution using a profile management product and lacks a proper description how to achieve this. Fortunately, Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM) can be configured to resolve this issue which I will expand on in this article.

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How Vista/Server 2008 Handle Folder Views

In one of my previous articles I explained how Windows handles folder views and how to preserve these settings for network shares when using roaming profiles across multiple machine. A reader has pointed me to the fact that the described behaviour seems to have changed beginning with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

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