Citrix Application Isolation Environment launch delays

in Citrix on Presentation-server

In a previous topic, I used the Application Isolation Environment feature in Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 to solve an issue where sites require different versions on the Java VM. A side effect of this was, however, that the application would take around 60 seconds to launch. Turns out the issue pops up on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and has to do with certificate autoenrollment. Essentially a 60 second delay is implemented to speed things up… Hmm, let ponder that for a second, accept it and move on. To relieve my application launch delay issue, I created the following registry key, the planets aligned, and all worked well.

IIS and Site Identifiers

in Microsoft on Iis

Having previously having issues installing an applications on IIS where the Default Web Site (i.e. the site with an identifier of 1) no longer exists, I was hesitant to edit the METABASE.XML. So I bit the bullet, stopped IIS, opened METABASE.XML in Notepad and changed all instances of the existing identifier to 1, saved and restarted IIS, and away she went. Bowl me over with a feather, by jove she works!

Lessons from the field - Virtual PC

in Microsoft on Virtual-pc

Today’s lesson is: Virtual PC and shared folders are slow. I mean really, really slow. Try install Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 1 into a VM with the source files in a shared folder (Virtual PC shared folders), I almost slit my wrists waiting for that to install. It ended up taking well over an hour. My work around: ROBOCOPY the sources files onto the VM’s hard drive and install from there.

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