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Workplace and profiles Working with Citrix XenApp, Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, or other types of workplace can be challenging when it comes to managing profiles. Most of the times mandatory profiles are used in these types of environments, but every time a user logs off their settings are flushed. Users are keen on there settings so there comes user profile visualization in to play. Tools that can virtualize user settings are Microsoft UEV, Appsense, VMWare UEM and RES Workspace Manager.

In the previous part of this serie of blogs I wrote resource sharing. Also discussed the different kind of technologies, in this article I want to go into the load test I have performed at the customer. All tests are performed with the officeworker workload, 150 sessions, 60 second launch interval. The following test are performed: Baseline office worker (DFSS/RES WM on (default)) DFSS on RES WM off DFSS off RES WM on (default) DFSS off RES WM on (85%) DFSS off RES WM off Below is a chart that represents the test results in % relative to the first (baseline) test.

Intro Currently I am at a customer that uses RES Workspace Manager on Windows Server 2008R2 XenApp servers. Because lots of users logon to your XenApp servers, one can consume all the resources on the server. Thankfully Microsoft and Citrix both have their own technologies to prevent users from eating up all the resources. Both Microsoft and Citrix say that if using XenApp 6.x you should use either Dynamic Fair Share Scheduling (Microsoft technology) or Citrix CPU utilization (Citrix Technology).