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Windows 2008 Partitioning Alignment

The partitioning alignment “bug” in Windows 2003 and earlier has been fixed in Windows 2008.
You no longer have to use diskpart.exe to align new partitions in Windows 2008.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738145.aspx
http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2008/03/07/Exchange-2007-Disk-Performance-Partition-Alignment-.aspx
Posted in EMC, Microsoft, windows2008 Tagged: EMC, Microsoft, windows2008

User Profiles Best Practices White Paper

Check out my updated User Profiles Best Practices White Paper.
http://www.varrow.com/index.php?id=98

Posted in Citrix, Microsoft, windows2008, xenapp, xendesktop Tagged: Citrix, Microsoft, xenapp

Mandatory User Profiles in Windows 2008 Terminal Server and XenApp 5

Some of you may have already known about the mandatory profile change in Windows 2008 but I had no idea. I recently did my first Citrix XenApp 5 - Windows 2008 project and had a hard time getting the mandatory profile working.
After some searching I found that the mandatory profile folder name has to have [...]