Tag: Best Practices

How Big should I make the Paging File in Windows?

Here is a repost of an article sent to me by Aaron Silber. Can’t get much of a better source than Mark. He wrote an ... Read More

Do you need a D drive in a virtualized environment?

I think it is an interesting question…  If I were to build a generic Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 server today (forget SQL or Exchange ... Read More

VMware VirtualCenter as a Virtual Machine

VMware VirtualCenter as a Virtual Machine

I seem to run into this over and over again.  Clients that are confused about whether to put VirtualCenter (now called vCenter) on a physical ... Read More

Suppressing the Citrix XenApp Tray Icon

Suppressing the Citrix XenApp Tray Icon

Great tip from Sam Jacobs on hiding the XenApp tray icon. By default, when seamless applications are launched, an icon is place in the system ... Read More

Speed up your Windows Servers (including Citrix)

Speed up your Windows Servers (including Citrix)

Aaron sent this around to me: Here is a very critical Registry entry for Windows Servers, an entry which affects performance and is so critical ... Read More