Network Administrators

SkyByte is currently in the process of deploying a Citrix Xenapp installation and upgrade for a 40 user environment.   The new Xenapp 6.0 farm includes four virtual Windows 2008 R2 servers and a variety of published applications.  The farm is running of a VMware Vsphere cluster with end users using some of the latest thin client technology.  The current farm runs Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 on several Windows 2003 servers.  The major drawback to the current system is the 32 bit hosts and the 4GB memory limitation.   The 64 bit architecture will allow us to handle more users per host and more importantly, allocate more resources.  Each host can efficiently run resource rich applications such as Microsoft Excel 2010.

Testing has showed small tweaks were needed.  One behavior we discovered that I want to mention was everything opened with a single click instead of the traditional double click.   We felt most users are accustomed to double clicking so it needed to be changed.  It can be too easy to accidentally launch programs and unnecessary change things while single clicking things on their desktops.

To change the setting from single to double clicking, a change was needed in group policy.  Even though it shows double clicking is enabled under folder options in 2008 R2, group policy was overriding it.  The setting "Turn on Classic Shell" must be Disabled under:

User Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Explorer

Once the policy takes place, normal double clicking behavior was restored.