Microsoft have released a website called http://gps.cloudapp.net/ which is powered by Windows Azure.

Group Policy Search is one of many new services that Microsoft is attend to provide free, yes free information…

I would like to give credits to my collegue “Thomas Storgaaard” who gave me hint about this website, so why not share it out in the public.

What is Group Policy Search
The Group Policy Search is a online  Group Policy search tool for Microsoft Active Directory Group Policy Settings.

Filter your Group Policy Search to following products:

• Internet Explorer 5/6
• Internet Explorer 7
• Internet Explorer 8
• Internet Explorer 9
• Machine Policy Settings Only
• Miscellaneous
• Office 2007
• Office 2010
• User Policy Settings Only
• Windows 2000
• Windows 7/2008R2
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Vista/2008
• Windows XP

This tool is great, when you work with Microsoft, Citrix and special combined with AppSense.

/Enjoy

I noticed that lots of resellers and end customers with Citrix XenApp 6 is having an issue when the server shutdown initialization is progressed, the server hangs.

Citrix have been working over 60days on a hotfix, they are about to release. Usual i dont talk much about hotfix for the Citrix products, but i think this is a major issue with Citrix XenApp6, and specially if you use XenApp6 in a Provisioned environment. Then its important that you can rely on your Citrix servers, when they are “normal” booted each day to get their cache/memory/data cleaned.

The shutdown issue have been verified by Citrix, and the issue is fixed in the upcoming hotfix XA600W2K8R2X64003 for Citrix XenApp 6.
ETA is set to 7th Sep 2010.

New Fixes in This Release

1. Terminal Service RemoteApps fail to launch from XenApp servers.[From XA600W2K8R2X64001][#231386]
2. Attempts to log on to a server with a user name that exceeds 19 characters in length fail and can cause the Winlogon.exe process on the server to exit unexpectedly. This fix adds support for user names up to 255 characters long.[From XA600W2K8R2X64001][#233858]

   download here (require mycitrix credentials)

With the excitement and promise of desktop virtualization, many organizations are trying to quickly implement a VDI-type solution to realize the expected benefits. Unfortunately, this exuberance has resulted in some implementation issues due to improper planning and design.

This white paper focuses on the top 10 mistakes made, identified by Citrix Consulting, when implementing a desktop virtualization solution.

download whitepaper from here

Bugs Fixed

This is an agent only release which contains the following fixes:

• Initialize Unicode logging earlier so that all output is present in the debug logs
• Incorrect Unicode string format specifiers in logs.
• Temporary files for downloaded personalization config are not being deleted after a config poll.

Download from www.myappsense.com