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

  • From: "Michel Roth" <mrdizzz@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:01:23 +0100

Also try and see if you problem persists if you try not redirecting
anything.
Any eventvwr errors?

On 3/15/06, Michael Pardee <pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Good point, and I will check since I don't remember off the top of my
> head.  But I am positive it has been the same for the last 15 months.  I
> believe this is something new since Windows2003 SP1 but I can't prove it
> yet.
>
>
> On 3/15/06, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > If that's the case, then that can also be part of the problem.  Do you
> > run your scripts synchronously or asyncronously?  It could be that you're
> > trying to redirect folders after the shell launches.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > On 3/15/06, Michael Pardee <pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, but not through any policies.  We initially had issues because of
> > > how we used to use a lot of variables (%HOMEDIR%) and found a bug with
> > > Microsoft doing it this way so we moved to mapped drive letters for
> > > everything.  We do all the redirection in the usrlogn2.cmd file with
> > > REG commands.
> > > We redirect Desktop, Favorites, My Documents, and AppData.
> > >
> >
> > On Mar 15, 2006, at 1:36 AM, Michel Roth wrote:
> >
> > Any kind of folder redirection implemented?
> >
> > On 3/15/06, Michael Pardee < pardeemp.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Metaframe XPe, FR3, SP4, Rollup R02.  So I guess MetaframeXP 1.0 would
> > > be the correct version.  We just switched the DEP settings 2 nights ago, 
> > > but
> > > only on one of the main published desktop silos.  The others are happening
> > > over the next week.
> > >
> > > On Mar 14, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Joe Shonk wrote:
> > >
> > > You didn't say what version of Presentation Server you are running...
> > >
> > > Since PS 4 does not have a Rollup 2 yet, I am assuming you are using
> > > PS 3.0.  If so,  Rollup 3 is the minimum requirement if you are
> > > running Windows 2003 with Service Pack 1.
> > >
> > >  Also make sure you DEP settings are set to OptIn.
> > >
> > > For the HS20, make sure your firmware and bios are up to date.
> > >
> > > Other than that, W2k3 Sp1 and Presentation Server works great on the
> > > HS20s.
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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> Michael Pardee
> www.blindsquirrel.org
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