[THIN] Re: Office 97 Apps freezing in Citrix

  • From: "Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:19:17 +0100

I've been hesitant to say the obvious... ;-)

But it's probably worth checking that fast find is turned off.

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Claus, Brian
> Sent: 14 July 2004 16:13
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 97 Apps freezing in Citrix
> 
> Good info Jeff....also...Make sure your Office 97 has all the 
> security \ bug patches and rollups.  Go to 
> www.windowsupdate.com and click on Office Updates to see if 
> you're up to date.  Maybe your problem is being caused by a bug.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gunn, Jeff
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:10 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 97 Apps freezing in Citrix
> 
> Most of those settings should be in the registry, which means 
> you can update the central repository of registry settings by 
> putting the server into install mode, making the change, and 
> putting it back into execute mode.  Assuming the app is 
> written properly and tries to put the reg keys into HKCU, 
> then the terminal server will trap it all and place it in 
> (uh, I think) HKLM\software\microsoft\windows 
> NT\currentversion\terminal server\install.
> 
> The tricky bit is populating out those changes to existing 
> users.  IIRC, the changes you make to registry keys in the 
> manner described above won't get automagically pushed out to 
> the users if they already have values set for those keys in 
> their user hives; the values are only pulled from the central 
> point if the app goes to look for a setting and doesn't find 
> it in the user's hive.  So, for example, if you want to 
> change the default templates folder in Word from the factory 
> setting (maybe c:\documents and settings\username\application 
> data\microsoft\templates) to the user's home drive (maybe 
> h:\templates) you may have to make the change, then blow away 
> the user's profile so they pull those settings next time they 
> log in.  Or push the settings in a login script if you don't 
> like deleting user profiles.
> 
> If you're unsure of where an app writes settings like the 
> ones you're looking to change, you can trap them using Regmon 
> and/or Filemon from Sysinternals.
> 
> From: Matt Barys [mailto:MBarys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:21 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 97 Apps freezing in Citrix
> 
> The files get saved to our network storage device not 
> locally. Also, I'll check into the autosave feature. That 
> brings another question about Office and Citrix. If I want to 
> turn off a feature or add a new toolbar item for all to see, 
> how would I do that? Log on as Administrator, chgusr/ 
> install, and then make my changes?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Claus, Brian
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 8:22 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Office 97 Apps freezing in Citrix
> 
> Sounds like it could be a problem with your pathing or 
> possibly your profiles.  
> 
> This would explain the periodic freezing (autosave feature turned on?)
> 
> Where are you saving your files to?  If you're saving to the 
> client hard drive and the client is on a slow link...there's 
> your answer.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Matt Barys
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 9:13 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] Office 97 Apps freezing in Citrix
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem 
> I'm having. We are using Office 97 with Metaframe 1.8 
> SP4/Windows 2000 and every once in a while while typing in 
> Outlook or Word, etc the cursor will freeze for up to a 
> minute before it comes back. This has also happened when 
> saving documents in Office. Is this a known issue? We have 
> three Citrix servers and it has happened on all three.

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