User Profile Manager Archives • Helge Klein

Citrix Profile Management Architecture – Why it is Not Based on a Mandatory Profile Any More

Ron Kuper asked in a comment why the architecture of Citrix Profile Management was changed from being based on mandatory profiles to capturing the entire profile content by default. This change happened between versions 1 and 2. A Bit of History Citrix Profile Management is based on the product sepagoPROFILE, which I architected and co-developed. […]

Helge’s Profile Toolkit

Helge’s Profile Toolkit is a collection of tips, tricks and tools for working with user profiles.

Differences Between Citrix Profile Management and Immidio Flex Profiles

From time to time I get asked about the differences between Citrix’s and Immidio’s profile management products. Here are some common questions along with my answers.

New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Office 2010, RDS/XenApp, Windows, Web

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Citrix User Profile Manager 5 Years Ago: Birth

Citrix User Profile Manager is pretty well-known in the SBC space today. Five years ago, things were quite different. Citrix did not have a user profile solution, and neither did sepago. But we had an idea spinning in our heads we soon came to call Smooth Profiles. Slowly that idea became code, then was renamed […]

New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Windows (7 and 2008 R2), PowerShell and Citrix

Windows General Good info for troubleshooting DFS-Namespaces in the MS KB: Storage locations, inconsistencies and how to deal with them. Complex passwords and security guidelines for end users? No, thank you, says MS researcher. I agree.

Fixing Office 2007’s Quick Access Toolbars With Citrix User Profile Manager

Not sure where user profile management might be useful? Here is an example that should apply to almost everyone.

Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM) and the Broken Rootdrive

Terminal server application compatibility scripts have been around for a long time – so long in fact, that I considered them a legacy and stowed away any knowledge of them in a very remote area of my brain. When a Citrix customer brought up a problem with the mapping of ROOTDRIVE in the User Profile […]

New Web Content Actually Worth Reading (August 2009)

Why does Windows 7 feel faster than Vista, although really it is not? Improvements to the graphics driver model (WDDM got upgraded to version 1.1) certainly add to this feeling and reduce the memory footprint of the desktop windows manager (DWM) process. Microsoft describes the changes in its Graphics Guide for Windows 7.

New KB Articles on User Profiles (April to May 2009)

This is a collection of new knowledge base articles related to Windows user profiles. As you can see, the last two months were pretty quiet. So quiet, that you may have missed the release of the first update to Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM). The new version comes as an MSI file that either installs […]

Folder De-Localization with Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM)

Windows user profiles prior to Vista / Server 2008 contain localized folder names. End users expect that, of course, but admins tend to hate it because automated management becomes much more difficult. How can this dilemma be resolved? End users only see the local copy of the profile, while admins mostly have to deal with […]

Citrix User Profile Manager: How Registry Exclusion Lists Can Mess Up Group Policy Processing

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 […]

Mandatory Profiles – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. 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 […]

Citrix User Profile Manager: User Store Design Recommendations

Citrix User Profile Manager, co-developed by sepago and Citrix, has been released. This is the first in a loose series of articles about UPM I intend to write. I will start by giving recommendations on how to set up the central profile storage called “user store”. Notes on the release: UPM is available on “My […]

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Citrix Profile Management Architecture – Why it is Not Based on a Mandatory Profile Any More

Helge’s Profile Toolkit

Differences Between Citrix Profile Management and Immidio Flex Profiles

New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Office 2010, RDS/XenApp, Windows, Web

Citrix User Profile Manager 5 Years Ago: Birth

New Articles, Tools, Tips and Tricks: Windows (7 and 2008 R2), PowerShell and Citrix

Fixing Office 2007’s Quick Access Toolbars With Citrix User Profile Manager

Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM) and the Broken Rootdrive

New Web Content Actually Worth Reading (August 2009)

New KB Articles on User Profiles (April to May 2009)

Folder De-Localization with Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM)

Citrix User Profile Manager: How Registry Exclusion Lists Can Mess Up Group Policy Processing

Mandatory Profiles – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Citrix User Profile Manager: User Store Design Recommendations