[THIN] Re: Tough one to describe - All desktop icons drop to a default icon

  • From: "Leon Jaimes" <slyride@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:40:14 -0700

I have seen that where the desktop/start menu are mapped to a network
share.  As a workaround we have the desktop and startmenus redirected to a
static location that is on each server, eg D:\Users\StartMenu and
D:\Users\Desktop1 you just have to make sure that your servers are
identical.
Leon

On 3/14/06, Michael Pardee <pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Windows 2003, SP1
> Metaframe XPe, FR3, SP4, Rollup R02.
> Office2003 SP1
> Approximately 200 IBM HS20 Blade servers with 4GB RAM.
>
> We are starting to hear from more people that their sessions will just
> stop working.  When we go to see what is wrong their Desktop icons have
> changed to some kind of default icon instead of the normal My Computer, etc
> icons.  Their Start menu has very few items on it.  From what I can tell
> their group policies are no longer applied either.  I have had this happen
> to me as well.  All they can do it Logoff (that menu item still works).
> When they log back on to the same server everything is fine.
>
> Over the last couple months we rolled out Windows2003 SP1.  Over the last
> 3 weeks we rolled out the Citrix hotfix rollup R02.  None of this showed up
> in the testing that was done but now that we are in production with these 2
> patches on close to 200 servers we are starting to see it.
>
> Has anyone else seen this issue before?  If so, what did you do to fix it?
>
> We are opening cases with Citrix and Microsoft now.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.  Let me know if I can supply any
> additional information.
>
> --
>
> Michael Pardee
> www.blindsquirrel.org
>

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