sepago Spezialisten bloggen über Citrix und Microsoft

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Modern Workplace | 7. November 2007 | Helge Klein

Soup Up Your Terminal Server: Optimizing Explorer’s Network Performance

Update: The ADM file can now be downloaded here.

I recently came across a post in the Windows Server Performance Team’s blog that lists several registry values which can be used to tune Explorer’s SMB performance by modifying the following:

Searches for Desktop.ini files used for folder customization
Periodic refreshes of folder contents
Searches for supporting library (.dll) files
Individual file details and attributes pulled for each file
Thumbnail extraction

I found the tips very interesting,

Modern Workplace | 12. September 2007 | Helge Klein

Programmatically Determining Terminal Server Mode on Windows Server 2008

A question on the terminal services newsgroup brought this topic to my attention: how can be determined programmatically if a Windows Server 2008 system is a terminal server and whether it runs in application server or remote administration mode? With Windows Server 2008 „terminal server“ is a role that can be installed with the GUI tool Server Manager. If the role „terminal server“ is installed then the system runs in application server mode. If not,