Since I like this way of providing information more and more, encouraged by very positive feedback from our partners and customers, here a short addition to my last performance tuning blog.

Recently we run into an alarm state 1 at the beautiful orange colored RES Suppport floor: two reports of a slow responding RES Workspace Manager environment, could not be a coincident, although....

Performance blog 1 didn't help, part 2 is born by that. Luckily the issue has been sorted out quickly, check out the first one below.

Remove RES Workspace Manager full install from Database/SQL and File server With a full installation of RES Workspace Manager the security drivers are being

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In 2011 RES Software released RES VDX and RES Subscriber for VDX. These are the next generation applications of Workspace Extender and RES Subscriber. By using this software, it's possible to use locally installed applications in a remote desktop.

At the Support department we receive questions regarding several different aspects of this product. In this article I will mention some best practices and FAQ's of RES VDX. The configuration can be different when using RES VDX in a standalone configuration from a configuration when it's integrated into RES Workspace Manager. Both configurations will be mentioned in each section.

How the RES VDX Engine is started

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Since RES PowerFuse 2010 SR1 a new option has been introduced within the RES PowerFuse / Workspace Manager Console: Disable Active Setup.

Still a lot of questions arise around this subject. Let me try to explain a bit more and give a nice example from a current customer case.

The purpose of this blog?
Disable Active Setup is more and more used as a logon-speed-up feature. Fact is that Active Setup takes some valuable time from the user at logon. These days more Local Profiles are being used, customers hate to see the Active setup at each logon. It is so easy to enable this feature, but think about the possible consequences.

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There are three different applications that can be used to run local applications on remote desktops like Citrix Published Desktop, Microsoft Remote Desktop or VMware View:

   1. RES Subscriber 2010
   2. RES Workspace Extender 2010
   3. RES VDX 2011

There is a fourth application involved which I will describe in the end of this article:

   4. RES Subscriber for VDX

Regardless of which application is used, in the RES PowerFuse Console or the RES Workspace Manager Console there is no difference in configuring an application to run as Workspace Extension. All you have to do is select “Run as Workspace Extension” in the General Properties screen for a managed application.        









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This post describes some random performance tips, triggered by some issues reported at RES Software Support. When you are busy in maintaining everything for your users, you might ‘forget’ to plan some maintenance within your RES Workspace Manager Console. After changes within your IT infrastructure you probably have to make some cleanup actions within your RES WSM environment. This blog is based on RES Workspace Manager 2011. Create a RES Datastore backup and Building Blocks to have a proper fallback scenario. The next steps can positively influence your RES WSM environment. These are sorted like the order within the RES Console. 1.  Context 1.1  Clean up Directory Services (Context – Directory Services) Check for Directory Services or Microsoft ... READ MORE>>