[ActiveDir] Fwd: Redirect Application Data

2006-07-08 Thread Matheesha Weerasinghe
Sorry for the repost but it doesnt appear in the archives as been ever posted. I would appreciate a reply ;-) ta! M@ -- Forwarded message -- From: Matheesha Weerasinghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 3, 2006 11:46 PM Subject: Redirect Application Data To:

Re: [ActiveDir] Fwd: Redirect Application Data

2006-07-08 Thread Matt Hargraves
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

Re: [ActiveDir] Fwd: Redirect Application Data

2006-07-08 Thread Susan Bradley
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

Re: [ActiveDir] Fwd: Redirect Application Data

2006-07-08 Thread Susan Bradley
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

Re: [ActiveDir] Fwd: Redirect Application Data

2006-07-08 Thread Matheesha Weerasinghe
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

Re: [ActiveDir] Fwd: Redirect Application Data

2006-07-08 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
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

Re: [ActiveDir] Fwd: Redirect Application Data

2006-07-08 Thread Matheesha Weerasinghe
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

RE: [ActiveDir] Fwd: Redirect Application Data

2006-07-08 Thread Darren Mar-Elia
] On Behalf Of Matheesha Weerasinghe Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 10:57 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Fwd: Redirect Application Data Basically the reason I am inquiring this is because of performance issues which were blamed on application redirection. The appdata

Re: [ActiveDir] Fwd: Redirect Application Data

2006-07-08 Thread Matheesha Weerasinghe
, July 08, 2006 10:57 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Fwd: Redirect Application Data 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