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Feb

182013

Profile Optimization and

“How do I speed up login

times?” generally go

hand-in-hand. These have

to be two of the most

important and most talked

about items when it comes

to delivering XenApp

desktops. There are lot of

different philosophies and

strategies with regards to

this, and in this article I’ll

simply talk about what I

have implemented in my

environment. I have gone

through extensive testing,

tracing, logging, and

analyzing of my settings

and will show you what

has worked for me. You

can use some of these

techniques to troubleshoot

your own environment and

see if you can get some

gain in yours.

To start, I have leveraged

many whitepapers, blogs,

and Citrix KBs to generate

my settings. I’d like to give

credit where credit is due.

Web IRC Client Getting Started IRC WebLog IRC Stats

http://www.citrixirc.com/

http://www.citrixirc.com/?cat=12


http://www.citrixirc.com/?p=99

http://join.citrixirc.com/

http://unnetwork.blogspot.com/2012/09/citrix-aka-citrixirc.html

http://echelog.com/logs/browse/citrix

http://stats.citrixirc.com/



First the Citrix XenApp and

XenDesktop Policy

Planning Guide was a

good resource and

baseline for everything.

Second, this Citrix blog

about Citrix Profile

Management had a lot of

great information. Also,

CitrixIRC, of course, has

been a great reference to

talk things through with a

bunch of great Citrix

Admins. Join our chat at

http://join.citrixirc.com. I

have also read many

other things on these

topics, but I don’t recall

them well enough to cite

them.

Let’s get the framework in

perspective here. I work

for a Citrix CSP (Citrix

Service Provider) and we

currently have a couple

dozen farms mostly in the

SMB space (<250 users) I

don’t do any enterprise

work, so my tools and

tricks are built around an

SMB mindset. I use Citrix

Profile Manager and

GPOs, exclusively. I do not

use any other third party

tools to manage my

profiles. I try to keep my

environments simple

enough for our other

admins to be able to

manage them. I think that

if you can configure and

test these tools properly

they can do the job well

enough to not need

additional cost factors in

our environments.

That being said lets start

with Folder Redirection!

Simply put, I redirect

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX134081

http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/02/11/citrix-profile-management-and-vdi-doing-it-right/




everything, except for

AppData, utilizing GPOs. I

manipulate AppData with

UPM and we will talk about

that later. Redirecting

everything keeps it out of

the profile and keeps the

profile small. Simple

enough.

Folder redirection isn’t the

only culprit for large

profiles. There are other

commonly used programs

that keep crap in the

profile. I use GPOs to

redirect these items as

well. Outlook PST and

OST files. Download the

Office admx templates and

USE THEM. “Microsoft

Outlook

2010/Miscellaneous/PST

Settings”. I set “Default

location for PST/OST files”

to a network drive. Well,

I’m not using cached mode

you say? Other things are

stored in PST files as well,

such as SharePoint Lists,

so keep this in mind.

AutoArchive? This will

create a PST also, so if

you are using this, you will

want to make sure

PST/OST files are moved.

AutoRecover files are also

stored in the profile. You

can redirect Excel and

Word Autorecover using

the same admx templates.

How about Evernote? A lot

of my users use Evernote,

and by default the

database is stored in

AppData\Roaming. I

redirect this to a network

drive with a GPP Registry

key.

“HCU\Software\Evernote\Evernote”



REG_SZ “DatabasePath”.

I have seen very large

databases and this is a

good tweak to keep the

profiles small.

Let’s talk AppData. First, I

use UPM to exclude

AppData\Local and

AppData\LocalLow at the

root. I keep

AppData\Roaming in the

users profile mainly for the

performance implications

of this being redirected on

a large scale. However, I

use the UPM to exclude a

bunch of directories to

keep it as small as

possible. I will attach my

UPM GPO for you to look

at these settings in more

depth. I exclude about 12

directories from

AppData\Roaming that

were gathered from the

various best practices

documents. Using

Chrome? Chrome keeps

all of its settings in

AppData\Local. Shame on

you, Google! With UPM,

this is no problem. I do 2

things with Chrome. First, I

include

AppData\Local\Google in

Synchronization. Second, I

exclude

AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User

Data\Default\Cache,

Cached Theme Images,

and JumpListIcons. This

allows my users’ Chrome

settings to save, but

excludes the not-needed

bloat directories.

Don’t forget the cookies! I

have written another blog

here on that. Read it!




How about the rest of the

UPM settings? Again, I’m

going to attach my UPM

policy in here somewhere,

but we can run through

the basic settings. I delete

cached copies of local

profiles. We always want

to load a fresh profile

each time. This will lower

profile corruptions. How

about profile streaming

and active writeback?

Well, I turn these off. Most

people will say that’s

dumb, and those are great

features, and you should

keep those on. Well, I can

see how these are great

features, but again, I’m

tuning these settings for

my environments. With the

tweaks I am implementing I

have an average profile

size of 30meg. The profile

itself can load in less than

1 second on a gigabit

network, so I’m not too

concerned about this.

These settings are nice

for larger setups, but in

my environment I’ll keep it

as simple as possible.

Did you use the 2008 R2

Optimization Guide for

XenApp 6/6.5? Well, don’t

forget this blog post about

one of the settings you

need to change if you are

using the UPM. Without

changing it, UPM times out

a lot and slows

logon/logoff processing.

Don’t forget to exclude all

of the un-needed folders

inside of the profile as

well. This is done with a

GPO.





When all is said and done,

here is what my profile

looks like. Of course, this

is a test user, but this is a

great foundation to build

user profiles on. Notice

there are not any folders

in there except for

Windows and AppData.

Do you already have an

environment built and

would like to tweak these

settings? I certainly did. I

actually wrote a script that

would go through the

Profile Store and delete

out all of the bloat from

the users’ existing profiles.

You can check that out

script here. Its powershell,

so have fun. I had users

with 1gig profiles and was

able to lower then to 30-

60meg in our internal

environment. Note, this

must be run from the

Profile Store directory.

One setting that works for

me, but will require testing,

is the GPO to wait for

network at computer

startup and logon. I was

able to gain about 13

seconds on my logon

times when I disabled this

setting. Your mileage may

vary.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vlez1itwlx5jtjk/DeleteProfileCrap.txt



Are you using GPPs for

shortcuts and printers and

such? I did a lot of GPP

tracing to analyze these

mappings and found this

to be true inside my

environments. If you

create GPP Shortcuts

using “update” it takes

about 200ms for each item

at each logon to parse. If

you have 60 shortcuts

between the start menu

and desktop, that’s 12

seconds right there.

That’s not a short amount

of time. Setting these to

“create” will speed this up

to about 5ms per item at

each login. You can

change it to “update” if

you actually want to

change something in the

future. I gained another 15

seconds on my logins

when I changed all of my

GPP shortcuts to “create”.

The same basic numbers

apply for printers too,

however, I have not traced

them to get exact numbers

yet.

Login times have a lot to

do with how many GPOs

that you have in your

environment. Remember

these tips. Always prefer

fewer larger GPOs

opposed to many smaller

ones. Each GPO has a set

base processing time that

can be avoided by

consolidating GPOs into

one larger one. Make sure

you disable

Computer/User settings in

a GPO if you aren’t using

them. This lowers login

time a second or so per

GPO.



So, what did I use to

troubleshoot all of these

things? I do curse

Microsoft for getting rid of

the userenv.log detailed

logging. Nothing works

quite as good. UPM

logging is a really good

place to start, however.

You can turn it on in the

UPM Policy GPO, and

parse the logs with the

UPM Log Parser. You

should also be using the

GPSvc.log. You can set

that up using this blog.

Don’t forget to create the

“usermode” directory if it

doesn’t exist, or the logs

won’t work. You can also

turn on GPP Tracing in a

GPO under “Computer

Configuration\Policies\Administrative

Templates\System\Group

Policy\Logging and

Tracing”. You can turn all

of these on, and enable

tracing, to get detailed

information of your GPPs.

Some people like to use

Policy Reporter to go

through the logs. This is a

nice tool, but I just read

the logs manually.

Using all of these tips and

tricks above, I was able to

get my test user in my test

environment to log in after

about 9 seconds on the

3 login. Obviously the

first 2 logins are a tad

slower as it builds the

profile from scratch and

runs some other scripts

that I have in my

environment. Now, keep in

mind that’s a bare

environment and your

mileage will vary here as

well. In my internal

rd


http://blogs.technet.com/b/mempson/archive/2010/01/10/userenvlog-for-windows-vista-2008-win7.aspx

http://www.sysprosoft.com/policyreporter.shtml



Posted by Ryan Gallier at

5:40 pm

72 Responsesto “XenApp

6/6.5 ProfileOptimization”

1. AnthonyIde says:

April 8,

2013 at 8:32 am

Hello Ryan,

this is a great blog

post. But one

question: you are

excluding folders like

citrix,contact,desktop,

downloads ,favorites

already in the UPM

policy. Why are you

also excluding those

folders by mean of a

windows gpo under

system/profiles ?

Cheers

Anthony

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

environment I was able to

speed my logins up from

around 75 seconds to 23

seconds. This is keeping

in mind that our internal

environment has about

847 GPOs and isn’t

optimized at all. In my

customer facing CSP

environments I have

gotten about a 75%

improvement time in the

environments that I have

implemented these

changes.

Take a look at my detailed

UPM policy is here

http://www.citrixirc.com/?author=2

http://www.citrixirc.com/?p=99#comment-442

http://www.citrixirc.com/?p=99&replytocom=442#respond

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pc1rjc3oxs916vj/Template%20-%20XenApp%20Profile%20Policy.htm



April 8,

2013 at

1:33 pm

If you only

exclude

them in

the UPM

policy it

will create

blank

folders

inside the

profile.

When you

also

exclude

them in

the GPO

the

folders

are never

created in

the first

place.

This

makes for

a nice

neat

empty

profile

directory.

Reply

2. Anthonysays:

April 9,

2013 at 8:26 pm

Thanks Ryan,

Very informative!

Regards

Reply

3. Fredsays:

May 1,2013 at 8:10 pm

I love this article, very

clear and so true !

Thank you for

sharing this !

Fred

Reply









4. Osniltonsays:

May 2,2013 at 2:08 pm

Excellent post!

Thanks

Reply

5. tonysays:

May 4,2013 at 8:20 pm

can you explain why

you are excluding

those folders/files

from

synchronization? I

noticed that there are

files in My

documents and

Desktop in the user

profile. why are you

excluding sync there

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

May 8,

2013 at1:20 pm

If I

understand

your

question

properly, I

am not

excluding

any

files/folders

that are

part of

folder

redirection

in the

UPM

policy, but

I am

excluding

them as

part of the

profile so

the

folders








don’t exist

in the

user’s

profile

directory.

Reply

6. Joshsays:

May 7,

2013 at 2:50 pm

Thanks for posting

this. I had no idea

that changing

shortcuts from

update to create

could potentially

save me 150+ ms.

Reply

7. Jariansays:

May 10,

2013 at 4:33 pm

Don’t forget this tool


Reply

8. Tim says:

May 19,2013 at

4:10 am

Excellent article! I

would love to check

out your UPM policy,

but the link is broken.

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

May 21,

2013 at3:32 pm

Sorry

about

that!

Fixed!

Reply




http://www.jariangibson.com/










Timsays:

May30,2013

at9:42pm

Thanks!

Reply

9. Loz says:

May 31,

2013 at8:03 am

Hi, thanks for the

great article. Do your

users use fat clients

and citrix? Are you

redirecting folders for

both situations or

just against your

Citrix servers OU?

Would it be possible

to show a

screenshot of your

folder redirection

policies for

redirecting all your

content? Thanks

again

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

June 3,

2013 at3:40 pm

I have

only tried

this on

the

XenApp

Server’s

OU. I have

not tested

any of

these

settings

for fat

clients. I

would

imagine it








could

have a lot

of

settings

that would

work well,

and some

settings

that don’t.

I know the

“Do not

wait for

network at

start-up”

can have

problems

for fat

clients

when

trying to

apply

GPOs

and such.

If you

would like

to do this,

it would

certainly

need

tested.

Reply

Lozsays:

June4,2013

at5:46pm

Thanks

Ryan,

I

have

set

this

up

for

TS

servers

only

for

the

time

being.

I

am

having

a

problem

with





the

UPM

settings

I

think.

Basically

I

am

trying

to

redirect

all

possible

folders

and

then

for

the

settings

that

I

want

to

persist

I

want

to

synchronize

these

back

to

the

profile

with

UPM.

These

folders

include

Favorites,

some

things

under

appdata.

I

am

removing

cached

copies

of

the

profile

but

because

there

is

a

farm

in

2

separate

regional

locations,



I

don’t

want

the

users

accessing

folders

they

use

a

lot

in

their

redirected

folders

which

could

be

in

a

different

location

to

the

xenapp

farm.

I

would

rather

this

was

copied

back

to

the

local

profile

once

at

logon,

then

the

changes

synched

back

to

the

redirected

folder

when

they

log

off

and

the

local

profile

is

wiped.

I

don’t

want



to

replicate

the

redirected

data

to

the

2

different

locations

yet

as

it

isn’t

large

so

I

don’t

forsee

the

copying

over

the

WAN

is

going

to

cause

an

issue

with

logon

speed.

I

can’t

seem

to

get

the

UPM

settings

correct

for

this

scenario

–

the

favorites

remain

in

the

redirected

folder

and

are

not

copied

back

to

the

favorites

in



the

local

profile.

Any

ideas

on

the

best

way

to

achieve

this?

Reply

10. Christiaan says:

June 12, 2013 at4:40 pm

I see that link to the

powershell script to

clean up your profile

is no longer working,

do you perhaps have

the updated link?

Great post!

Reply

RyanGalliersays:






June 12,

2013 at7:14 pm

Thanks. I

have fixed

the link.

Reply

11. Tobiassays:

July 18,

2013 at 1:40 pm

Firstly, thanks for that

great ppost.

Secondly the link to

your detailed UPM

policy is no longer

working.

Do you have an

update on this?

Many Thanks!

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

July 18,2013 at6:10 pm

Thanks.

I’m glad

you liked

it. The link

should be

working.

Are you

still

having

problems?

Reply

12. Mahfujsays:

August 29,

2013 at 10:14 am

Thanks for the great

post.

My Outlook users

seem to face










slowness issue

every day that the

Outlook is simply

hung for ~10 mins

and can’t work at all.

Some more info:

outlook 2013.

Xenapp Citrix UPM

profile.

GPO deployed to

restrict Outlook “local

cache” OST file to

contain only mails

from the latest

month.

Please help on this..

Thanks

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

December

17, 2013at 4:34pm

Are you

storing

the OST

file on a

file server,

or in the

local

profile?

How big

are the

OST

files? Are

you using

Profile

Streaming?

Reply

13. Mangaladasansays:

September 4, 2013

at 5:31 am

This is the good

article about CITRIX-







UPM. I have recently

implement the

same. I was told to

create the User

Home Directory too,

in order to function

the Citrix-UPM. Is it

so?

Thanks,

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

December

17, 2013at 4:33

pm

In my

configuration

the Home

Directory

points to

the root of

the My

Documents

directory.

I’m not

sure if

this is

required,

but it’s

certainly a

good idea

to do so.

Reply

14. Lee says:

September 26, 2013

at 9:16 pm

What if your running

XenApp 6.5

advanced edition…

Upm doesn’t

support?

Reply

RyanGallier








says:

December17, 2013

at 4:32pm

Yes, this

assumes

that you

are

running a

version

that

supports

the UPM,

sorry.

Reply

AtleLundsays:

February7, 2014 at

12:27 pm

You can

use UPM

on adv.

edition as

well.

Though

you’re not

entitled to

through

licensing,

it still

works.

There is

no

license

check for

this.

Reply

15. Zak says:

October 8,2013 at7:43 pm

On the Evernote

portion, have you had

to change anything

recently? I ask

because I setup a

GPP registry item as

described pointing to

\\MyFileServer\evernotedatabase$\%logonuser%,








but evernote takes

that path and creates

it on the C drive of

the server. This is

using the latest

release of Evernote.

C:\MyFileServer\evernotedatabase$\Name

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Zak

Reply

16. Jamessays:

February25, 2014 at 6:59 pm

After seeing that you

are excluding

locations within your

GPO settings under

System\User

Profiles, it makes me

wonder what other

settings you have set

in that location.

Would you be able to

detail any other

settings

User/Computer

within the User

Profile sections

please?

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

March 7,2014 at3:41 pm

Actually,

that is the

only

setting I

use in

that GPO

section.

Everything

else

regarding

profiles is







part of the

UPM

policy and

the Folder

Redirection

settings.

Reply

17. Janesays:

March 4,

2014 at 1:43 pm

What does the

Folder Redirect GPO

look like if you

exclude all these

folders

Reply

RyanGalliersays:


You only

exclude

the

folders so

Windows

doesn’t

create

blank

folders

inside the

user

profile

directory.

The

Folder

Redirect

GPO has

the

normal

settings

to redirect

these

folders to

a network

drive.

Reply

18. Anthony says:








March 7,2014 at

6:40 am

Hello,

I have a configuration

where the

downloads are not

redirected and are in

the profile. What will

happen with the files

in the download

folder if I enable

redirection

afterwards. Will they

get copied, moved,

deleted?

Cheers

Anthony

Reply

RyanGalliersays:


You can

set the

GPO to

move the

contents

to the new

location.

Reply

19. Mattsays:

March 20,2014 at 11:42 pm

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for this post

it’s helped with

some of our UPM

config. I had the

same problem as

Zak posted with

Evernote and

we can’t get it move

to a UNC path. I’m

not sure if you could

shed any light on





http://www.zeara.com.au/




this.

Thanks

Matt

Reply

20. Marcosays:

April 3,2014 at 4:54 pm

You you tell us

something about this

folder? It takes about

4MB.

UPM_Profile\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Document

Building

Blocks\1031\14

Thank you!

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

April 11,2014 at2:42 pm

I do not

know

about that

folder,

sorry.

Reply

21. Dan says:

May 6,

2014 at9:30 pm

Great article, I

recently deployed

UPM and wanted to

make two quick

notes.

1) I thought I read

with the new version

of UPM that I

deployed (5.1.1) they

no longer required

you to exclude the

folders that are

redirected. Though


http://www.meinekleinefarm.net/





http://danstechnotes.blogspot.com/




when I check in a few

UPM profiles I have

the blank folders

there, so not sure

about that one.

2) Disabling an

unused computer or

user side of a

GPO/GPP has little

effect on

performance

according to this

article:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/magazine/2008.01.gpperf.aspx

So curious if you

have empirical

testing that states

otherwise?

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

May 12,2014 at12:44 pm

Thanks, I

appreciate

it. The

blank

folders

are

removed

by the

GPO

“Exclude

Directories

in

Roaming

Profiles”

as

described

above.

Yes, that

technet

article is

accurate.

My tests

indicated

only a

second or

so gain

when

disabling

compter/user

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.01.gpperf.aspx





section of

the GPO. I

would

classify

that as

“negligible”.

However,

every

second

counts

when it

comes to

login

times.

Reply

22. jasonsays:

May 14,2014 at 5:38 pm

I’m confused with

XD/XA 7.5

Like other policies

Citrix has moved

most of them into

studio. You can now

set UPM settings in

studio.

If I want to install and

use UPM on users

laptops as well as

Citrix sessions so

both enviroments

share the same

things like desktops

and other items do I

a: Use a GPO on the

laptops and then just

replicate those

settings in Studio to

our Xenapp or VDI

desktops?

b. Ignore the studio

policies and just use

a GPO for both

laptops and citrix

sessions?

thanks

Reply

Ryan

Gallier






Galliersays:

May 14,

2014 at6:04 pm

I would

stick to

GPOs,

personally.

Reply

23. Ryansays:

May 27,2014 at 7:41 pm

Great Article!

I am in the process

of setting up the

folder redirection.

Currently my path to

user store is

\\test01\citrix\profiles\%username%.

For my redirection I

am pointing them to

the same place

which now looks like

this is incorrect

(\\test01\citrix\profiles\%username%\Contacts).

I am assuming

these redirections

should go to another

place other then your

path to user store?

Our difficulty is most

folders we can’t

redirect to the users

%homepath%. We

have different

homepaths for

different divisions so

this is why I can’t

map it to there. Any

suggestions?

Thanks! Ryan

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

June 3,

2014 at3:44 pm

I don’t

redirect

anything



http://ryan/






to the

profile

directory,

it will lead

to bloat

and slow

login

times.

%homepath%\Contacts

should

work

universally

across

your

environment.

Why is

this not

possible

in your

enviornment?

Reply

Ryansays:

June5,2014at1:45

pm

A

previous

admin

could

never

get

it

to

work.

He

contacted

Microsoft

and

they

said

it

would

work

like

that.

I

just

tried

adding

it

and

get

“The

target

path

is


http://ryan/




not

a

UNC

path”

If

this

is

not

a

valid

local

path

at

the

client,

folder

redirection

will

fail.

I

am

going

to

apply

it

and

test

it

out.

Thanks,

Ryan

Reply




24. Kevinsays:

June 3,2014 at 2:43 pm

Can we exclude

appdata\roaming\Microsoft\Templates?

What will the effects

be?

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

June 3,2014 at






3:43 pm

You can

exclude

anything

you want.

Is there a

reason

you would

want to

exclude

that

specific

directory?

Testing

would be

needed to

determine

the user

impact of

that

folder.

Reply

25. AnthonyIde says:

June 4,2014 at 4:24 pm

Hello again,

a few months ago I

upgraded upm from

4.1.2 to 5.0 on my

xenapp 6 farm. Since

then users complain

that bookmarks and

passwords are not

saved in Mozilla

firefox on their

published desktops.

Any idea what could

be the cause?

Cheers and keep up

the good work.

Anthony

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

June 4,2014 at4:43 pm

That








shouldn’t

have

anything

to do with

the UPM

version at

all. I

would

investigate

other

things. I

assume

other

programs

are still

working

fine?

Reply

26. NP84says:

June 5,2014 at 10:24 am

Hi,

Great article and

definitely something

which I would like to

implement in my

evironment but the

links do not seem to

be working.

Regards

NP

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

June 5,2014 at12:35 pm

They all

appear to

work fine.

Which

one(s)

aren’t

working

for you?

Reply








27. Mike_Psays:

June 18,2014 at 12:34 pm

Hi Ryan,

Unless I’ve missed

something, is there

any reason you are

doing the folder

redirection with the

standard User

Configuration-

Policies-Windows

Settings-Folder

Redirection GPO

rather than doing it

all with the Citrix

UPM GPO (User

Configuration-

Administrative

Templates-Citrix-

Profile Management-

Folder Redirection)?

Thanks, Mike

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

June 18,2014 at1:00 pm

Not really.

They

basically

do the

same

thing.

Most of

my

environments

already

have

some

form of

folder

redirection

before we

layer

XenApp

on top of

it, so I’ve

just kept

that

configuration.

Reply







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28. Tomsays:

July 22,

2014 at 8:46 pm

Great article, I

followed this when I

set up my UPM test

about 2 months ago.

I’m failing on one

thing with this and I

don’t know why. I

have two directories

under my

User.Name directory.

I want these to be

copied to the Server

on Log On, and than

get copied back

when the user logs

out. It seems this

should be done with

Folders To Mirror

under File System >

Synchronization >

Folders to Mirror.

However, these do

not copy back and

forth.

I now created a batch

file that runs at

startup that will copy

the two directories I

need so it’s local for

the user. I am also

working on a log off

script that will copy

these back…but it

seemed like Folders

to Mirror should be

doing this for me.

Here’s what I have

under List of Folders

to mirror:

AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies

AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\*.qat

AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\*.officeUI

AppData\Local\Google\BrowserSwitcher

AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User

Data\Default\Extensions

Dynamics\GP2010

Data\Application\DMS

The bottom 2 are the

big ones I want to

copy to the server the

user hits on log in,





and than copy back

when they log out.

Not sure if it’s

related, but users

have told me that

their Google Chrome

cookies don’t seem

to copy back when

they log out.

Any help would be

appreciated!

Reply

29. Bryansays:

August 27,2014 at 7:17 pm

I am really interested

in looking at that

deletecrap script.

Could you post

another link?

Thanks.

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

September4, 2014 at1:59 pm

Is anyone

else

having

trouble

with the

link? It

works fine

for me.

Reply

30. Mike

Thompson says:

September 4, 2014at 5:55 am

Fantastic post!

Should these

settings work for

XenDesktop as well?

Reply










Reply

RyanGalliersays:

September

4, 2014 at1:56 pm

Yes, they

should!

Reply

31. RajKatyalsays:

September 7, 2014

at 3:43 am

Hi I am trying to use

your powershell

script. I changed the

$Path to reflect the

path of my user store

and made a few

other changes for

some of the

subfolders that our

profile doesn’t have.

However when I run

the script I get

System cannot find

the path specified.

I really don’t have any

experience with

Powershell. do you

think you can assist?

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

September9, 2014 at11:02 pm

Raj, Jump

into the

IRC

channel

(http://join.citrixirc.com

and we

can help

you out!

Reply











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32. RajKatyalsays:

September 8, 2014at 1:09 pm

Hi Ryan,

I downloaded your

profile cleanup script

but having problems

with it. I tried running

the script with

changing the path to

reflect the correct

path for my

environment but i get

path cannot be found

error.

Can you help with

that?

Reply

33. Goakssays:

October13, 2014 at 2:25 am

If you could also

explain how I may be

able to use the

windows folder in the

home folder or

“profile path”

effectively. the

scenario: A standard

home drive on server

A, the citrix

environment user

profile and

redirection is to a

server B. An

application I have

uses ini settings in a

file in the windows

folder that is created

when a user logs

onto the citrix

environment. Where

are these files

copied from into the

windows folder on

server A and how

can I make sure this

windows folder is

created on server B

and not server A







perhaps under the

UPM_profile folder

(….%username%/profile/upm_profile…).I

need the specific

application to read

the ini file in the

windows folder in the

UPM_Profile when

logging onto

citrix…..is it as

simple as changing

the home folder

location in AD user

settings?

Reply

34. Maartensays:

October29, 2014 at 8:16 pm

Great info!.

One question.

Why are you

including these

paths in your

directory

synchronization?

AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Credentials

AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Crypto

AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Protect

AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SystemCertificates

Isn’t

AppData\Roaming\*

included bij default in

your policy?

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

October31, 2014

at 4:17pm

Good

catch.

This is

unneeded

information.

This was

grabbed

directly

from the







Citrix

guide


Reply

35. Olliesays:

January

19, 2015 at 12:48 am

Hello Ryan, I have

this situation at work,

previously we were

using XenApp local

profiles stored on the

C-Drive, now we

implemented UPM

4.1 to save storage

on our server. For

some odd reason it

seems to be copying

users over to UPM

from the local profile

stored on the server

at a slow rate, say 2

users a day. Is there

a way to speed this

up?

Reply

RyanGalliersays:

March 5,

2015 at5:57 pm

I will

admit, I

have not

seen this

issue

before.

Jump in

CitrixIRC

and see if

any of the

other

guys have

any ideas.

Reply

36. CodyCrowellsays:









February 11, 2015 at2:54 am

Ryan,

i hope you are still

active in this thread.

I have a similar

setup but not

excluding as much

stuff. I am redirecting

.ost files to a network

share and limiting

the local cache to 1

month. .ost files

range from 50meg to

600meg. Users keep

having random

occurrences where

Outlook 2013 will

crash. When the

users try to relaunch

it, it tells them the

.ost is corrupt and

needs to be

scanned. After

scanning, it tends to

open back up and

work. But may crash

again in a week.

Have you seen that

at all?

Reply

37. Codysays:

February11, 2015 at 1:55 pm

Ryan,

I hope you are still

active in this thread.

I have .ost files

redirected to a

network share and I

am caching 1 month

worth of mail on the

share. It works great

and its fast, but

periodically outlook

will crash and tell

users they need to

repair the .ost file.

After repairing it, it

works for maybe a

week, maybe a

month. its very






sporadic.

Have you seen this

at all, or have any

suggestions.

Reply

RyanGalliersays:


Cody,

sadly I

have not

seen this

before.

Something

else must

be

corrupting

these

.OST files.

Do your

users

only have

access to

1

desktop,

or copy of

Outlook at

a time? I

have this

configuration

running

across

about 50

customers,

none of

which

have this

issue.

Jump in

CitrixIRC,

maybe

one of the

other

guys have

some

thoughts

as well.

Reply

38. Amir says:






Name

E-mail

URI

March 25,2015 at8:47 pm

Hi Ryan,

Generally I read such

posts and thanks the

person quietly. But I

must say I have

really enjoyed your

post . You have

summarized very

well a list of steps so

it should help me

reduce the roaming

profile sizes.

Thanks man.

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