michaelcolson.com » windows server http://www.michaelcolson.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:54:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Older Citrix Clients with Windows Server 2008 http://www.michaelcolson.com/2008/12/16/older-citrix-clients-with-windows-server-2008/ http://www.michaelcolson.com/2008/12/16/older-citrix-clients-with-windows-server-2008/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:54:32 +0000 michael http://www.michaelcolson.com/?p=161 In order to get Citrix clients prior to version 11 to function with Citrix XenApp running on Windows Server 2008 you will need to install a hotfix from Microsoft. 

Basically this has to do with the encryption that is used for terminal services licensing having changed its key size from 512 bytes to 2048 bytes.

Here is the link to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949914.  Unfortunately this is one of those hotfixes that you have to request from Microsoft.  The good news is that they aren’t making you jump through a lot of hoops to get it.  Mine came right away in an email!

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  1. Logon to the server core console
  2. Enter the product key:  cscript C:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -ipk PRODUCT-KEY-HERE
  3. Activate:  cscript C:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs -ato
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You can read the full article here, but I’ve listed the top ten causes of slow replication below:

  1. Missing Windows Server 2003 Network QFE Hotfixes or Service Pack 2
  2. Missing DFSR Service’s latest binary
  3. Out-of-date Network Card and Storage drivers
  4. DFSR Staging directory is too small for the amount of data being modified
  5. Bandwidth Throttling or Schedule windows are too aggressive
  6. Large amounts of sharing violations
  7. RDC has been disabled over a WAN link
  8. Incompatible Anti-Virus software or other file system filter drivers
  9. File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) configured with quotas/screens that block replication
  10. Un-staged or improperly pre-staged data leading to slow initial replication
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