Sorry for the repost but it doesnt appear in the archives as been ever
posted. I would appreciate a reply ;-)
ta!
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From: Matheesha Weerasinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Jul 3, 2006 11:46 PM
Subject: Redirect Application Data
To:
I believe the reason they recommend against this is because all applications are different. Another problem is that there is no guarantee that the application will remain the same. Patches and updates can change more than just a file here and a file there, they can change settings such as these
Please correct me if I'm wrong.. but in the era of Howard/LeBlanc and Howard/Lipner's Secure Coding and SDL books currently written software from Microsoft is indeed following their "best practice" guidelines.(Which my only complaint wtih both books is that they are paperback and not
Sorry read the original post and saw it was specifically about TS.TS is one of those things that if the application loves the TS environment, I don't think we've seen too many issues... and that's usually the key... there are some applications that just don't work well and the vendor states
Basically the reason I am inquiring this is because of performance
issues which were blamed on application redirection. The appdata was
on a cluster in this particular instance. Siting the fact that there
are more components involved in the data path when appdata is accessed
from a cluster , the
This sounds like a question for a MSDN/TS list/newsgroup with some
monitoring tools thrown in as you do your tests.
I can tell you that in our little networks, things like smb signing
enabled on our DCs add about a 20 to 40 percent overhead to file
transfers and apps (ergo one of the reasons
Thanks for the suggestion. I've posted in the public TS newsgroup.
M@
On 7/8/06, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This sounds like a question for a MSDN/TS list/newsgroup with some
monitoring tools thrown in as you do your tests.
I can tell you that in
In general I recommend against AppData redirection for the performance
reasons you've already cited below. A lot of apps, esp. MS apps, read/write
to files in AppData frequently as they run, and I've just found that when
that data resides remotely, it really slows down the user's experience. If
Thanks Darren
Unfortunately we are indeed clearing cached profiles at logoff and so
download of roaming profiles is gonna take some time. We store a lot
of files specially for lotus notes so I could have done without that.
I am gonna need to think a bit about this one. But at this stage I'd
