Citrix Xen. App and Windows Server 2. Optimisation Script Wilky. IT Desktop Virtualisation Blog. Publishing_Applications_with_Citrix_XenApp_6.5_001.png' alt='How To Install Application On Citrix Xen App Server Configuration' title='How To Install Application On Citrix Xen App Server Configuration' />The following details the Computer Settings that the script will perform in order to Optimise Windows Server 2. Xen. AppRDS based environment as per citrix optimisation Guide in 2. R2Various blogs and my own experience in running citrix environments. I have extensively reviewed all settingsChanges and believe that they all apply to Windows Server 2. Computer Setting Windows Services DisableService Name. Service Description. AJRouter. AJRouter Service. ALGApplication Layer Gateway Service. App. Mgmt. Application Management Service do not disable if deploying software via Group Policybthserv. Bluetooth Support Service. Browser. Computer Browser. Macromedia Freehand 10 Free Download Full Version'>Macromedia Freehand 10 Free Download Full Version. Dcp. Svc. Data. Collection. Publishing. Service. Device. Association. Service. Device Association Service. Dsm. Svc. Device Setup Manager Service. DPSDiagnostic Policy Service. Wdi. Service. Host. Diagnostic Service Host. Wdi. System. Host. HowToConfigureCitrixXenApp65-20.png' alt='How To Install Application On Citrix Xen App Server Configuration' title='How To Install Application On Citrix Xen App Server Configuration' />Diagnostic System Host. Trk. Wks. Distributed Link Tracking Client. Maps. Broker. Downloaded Maps Manager. EFSEncrypting File System EFSEaphost. Extensible Authentication Protocol Service. FDRes. Pub. Function Discovery Resource Publicationlfsvc. Geolocation Servicevmickvpexchange. Hyper V Data Exchange Servicevmicguestinterface. Hyper V Guest Service Interfacevmicshutdown. Hyper V Guest Shutdown Servicevmicheartbeat. Hyper V Heartbeat Servicevmicvmsession. Hyper V Power. Shell Direct Servicevmicrdv. Hyper V Remote Desktop Virtualization Servicevmictimesync. Hyper V Time Synchronization Servicevmicvss. Hyper V Volume Shadow Copy Requestor. Citrix XenApp 7. x on Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 Setting File Type or Application Associations. On March 26, 2014, Citrix puts XenApp back on the market with the release of Citrix XenApp 7. This version of XenApp does not use the Independent Management. UI0. Detect. Interactive Services Detection. Shared. Access. Internet Connection Sharing. Nca. Svc. Network Connectivity Assistant. Csc. Service. Offline Filesdefragsvc. Optimize Drives. Sstp. Svc. Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol Service. Sensr. Svc. Sensor Monitoring Service. Shell. HWDetection. Shell Hardware Detection. SNMPTRAPSNMP Trap Service. SSDPSRVSSDP Discovery. Sys. Main. Superfetch. Tapi. Srv. Telephony. Themes. Themesupnphost. UPn. P Device Host. VSSVolume Shadow Copydmwappushservice. WAP Push Message Routing Service. Win. Defend. Windows Defender Service. Wer. Svc. Windows Error Reporting Serviceicssvc. Windows Mobile Hotspot Servicewuauserv. Windows Updatedot. Wired Auto. Config. Xbl. Auth. Manager. Xbox Live Auth Manager. Xbl. Game. Save. Xbox Live Game Save. NOTE Below Technet blog covers the Services installed by default and Microsofts view on If OK to disable. Scheduled Tasks DisableTask Name. Task Path. AD RMS Rights Policy Template Management AutomatedMicrosoftWindowsActive Directory Rights Management Services Client. AD RMS Rights Policy Template Management ManualMicrosoftWindowsActive Directory Rights Management Services Client. EDP Policy ManagerMicrosoftWindowsApp. IDPolicy. ConverterMicrosoftWindowsApp. IDSmart. Screen. SpecificMicrosoftWindowsApp. IDVerified. Publisher. Cert. Store. CheckMicrosoftWindowsApp. IDMicrosoft Compatibility AppraiserMicrosoftWindowsApplication Experience. Program. Data. UpdaterMicrosoftWindowsApplication Experience. Startup. App. TaskMicrosoftWindowsApplication ExperienceappuriverifierdailyMicrosoftWindowsApplication. DataappuriverifierinstallMicrosoftWindowsApplication. Data. Cleanup. Temporary. StateMicrosoftWindowsApplication. Data. Ds. Svc. CleanupMicrosoftWindowsApplication. Data. ProxyMicrosoftWindowsAutochk. Uninstall. Device. TaskMicrosoftWindowsBluetooth. Proactive. ScanMicrosoftWindowsCHKDSKConsolidatorMicrosoftWindowsCustomer Experience Improvement Program. Kernel. Ceip. TaskMicrosoftWindowsCustomer Experience Improvement Program. Usb. CeipMicrosoftWindowsCustomer Experience Improvement Program. ScheduledMicrosoftWindowsDiagnosis. Microsoft Windows Disk. Diagnostic. Data. CollectorMicrosoftWindowsDisk. Diagnostic. Microsoft Windows Disk. Diagnostic. ResolverMicrosoftWindowsDisk. Diagnostic. NotificationsMicrosoftWindowsLocation. Windows. Action. DialogMicrosoftWindowsLocation. Win. SATMicrosoftWindowsMaintenance. Maps. Toast. TaskMicrosoftWindowsMaps. Maps. Update. TaskMicrosoftWindowsMaps. MNO Metadata ParserMicrosoftWindowsMobile Broadband Accounts. Background SynchronizationMicrosoftWindowsOffline Files. Logon SynchronizationMicrosoftWindowsOffline Files. Analyze. SystemMicrosoftWindowsPower Efficiency Diagnostics. Mobility. ManagerMicrosoftWindowsRASVerify. Win. REMicrosoftWindowsRecovery. Environment. Reg. Idle. BackupMicrosoftWindowsRegistry. Indexer. Automatic. MaintenanceMicrosoftWindowsShell. Speech. Model. Download. TaskMicrosoftWindowsSpeech. Resolution. HostMicrosoftWindowsWDIWindows Defender Cache MaintenanceMicrosoftWindowsWindows Defender. Windows Defender CleanupMicrosoftWindowsWindows Defender. Windows Defender Scheduled ScanMicrosoftWindowsWindows Defender. Windows Defender VerificationMicrosoftWindowsWindows Defender. Queue. ReportingMicrosoftWindowsWindows Error Reporting. Automatic App UpdateMicrosoftWindowsWindows. Update. Scheduled StartMicrosoftWindowsWindows. UpdatesihMicrosoftWindowsWindows. UpdatesihbootMicrosoftWindowsWindows. Update. Xbl. Game. Save. TaskMicrosoftXbl. Game. Save. Xbl. Game. Save. Task. LogonMicrosoftXbl. Game. Save. Cleanup. Old. Perf. LogsMicrosoftWindowsServer Manager. Server. ManagerMicrosoftWindowsServer Manager. Registry Idle BackupMicrosoftWindowsWindows Filtering Platform. Remove Windows Features not required. Remove Windows. Feature Windows Defender, Windows Defender GUIWindows Features. NOTE Only remove Windows Defender if being replaced by another Software Vendor. Registry Tweaks OSICASMBOptimisation. Setting. Hide VMware Tools Systray Iconif VMware is the hypervisorHKLMSOFTWAREVMware, Inc. VMware ToolsShow. Traydword 0. 00. Disable NTFS Last Access Timestamps. HKLMSYSTEMCurrent. Control. SetControlFile. SystemNtfs. Disable. Last. Access. Updatedword 0. Disable Memory Dump Creation. Do not send Administrative alert during system crash. HKLMSYSTEMCurrent. Control. SetControlCrash. ControlCrash. Dump. Enableddword 0. Send. Alertdword 0. Increase Disk IO Timeout to 2. Seconds. HKLMSYSTEMCurrent. Control. SetServicesDiskTime. Out. Valuedword 0. C8. Disable TCP Offloading. HKLMSYSTEMCurrent. Control. SetServicesTcpipParametersDisable. Task. Offloaddword 0. File Browser S60 3Rd on this page. Hide Action Centre. HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrent. VersionPoliciesExplorer. Hide. SCAHealthdword 0. Set Service Startup time from 3. Secs. HKLMSYSTEMCurrent. Control. SetControlServices. Pipe. Timeoutdword 0xafc. Disable Internet Explorer First Run Wizard. HKLMSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMainDisable. First. Run. Customizedword 0. Disable default system Screensaver. HKEYUSERS. DEFAULTControl. PanelDesktopScreen. Save. Activedword 0. Hide Hard Error MessagesHKEYLOCALMACHINESystemCurrent. Control. SetControlWindowsError. Modedword 0. 00. Disable Paging of Kernel. HKLMSystemCurrent. Control. SetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementDisable. Paging. Executivedword 0. Write only Errors in Spooler Warning. Events. HKLMSystemCurrent. Control. SetControlPrintProvidersEvent. Logdword 0. 00. Disabled CIFS Change Notificaiton. HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrent. VersionPoliciesExplorerNo. Remote. Recursive. Eventsdword 0. Additional Worker Thread To Increaase IO Performance. HKLMSYSTEMCurrent. Citrix Xen. App 7. Windows Server 2. R2 Setting File Type or Application Associations. One of the nice things about being a consultant is that on every project you run into something you have never seen before or asked to do something no one else has asked you to do before. As a consultant, I am always learning new things or a new way of doing something I have been doing for years. Recently I was asked to help finish up a Xen. App 7. 6 deployment running on Windows Server 2. Server 2. 01. 2 R2. One of the problems I was tasked to resolve was that some application associations were not working. One specific example was that embedded links in emails, when CtrlClicked, would not open in the default browser. Here is how I solved that issue. In versions of Windows prior to Windows 8Server 2. I always used a Group Policy Preference GPP to set File Type Associations. However, for the applications published on Server 2. GPP never set any associations. As in most cases when I am stumped, I turned to super smart young squirt Jarian Gibson. Jarian told me he had just solved this for one of his customers in the previous week or so. This is the solution Jarian pointed me to  Windows 8 Associate a file Type or protocol with a specific app using GPOI found these parts of the article interesting In  Pre Win 8, apps could set the default handler for a file typeprotocol by manipulating the registry, this means you could easily have a script or a group policy manipulating the registry. However In Win 8, the registry changes are verified by a hash unique per user and app  that detects tampering by apps. In the absence of a valid hash, we ignore the default in the registry. Solution Microsoft  have  introduced a new GP mechanism for declaring these defaults in Win 8 to accommodate this type of scenario. That Tech. Net blog pointed to another Tech. Net article on using Dism. To set the associations, use the following steps On the Xen. App server running Windows Server 2. Figure 1 Dism Online Export Default. App. Associations ServerShareApp. Assoc. xml. Figure 1. Verify the XML file exists, as shown in Figure 2. Figure 2. Open the Group Policy Management Console GPMC and create a new group policy, as shown in Figures 3 and 4. Figure 3. Figure 4. Edit the new group policy, and navigate to Computer ConfigurationPoliciesAdministrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsFile ExplorerSet a default associations configuration file as shown in Figure 5. Figure 5. Enable the Set a default associations configuration file policy setting and enter the path to the XML file, as shown in Figure 6. Figure 6. Click OK, exit the group policy editor, and link the new policy to the appropriate Organizational Unit for your Xen. App servers that use Windows Server 2. After the group policy refresh interval or restarting the servers, the new group policy setting will be applied and application associations will now work. The main problem with this new method is that the XML file is static. If any new applications with file type associations are installed, the XML file will need to be recreated. Hope this helps someone else that finds themselves in the same situation of needing to set File Type or Application associations for WIndows Server 2. Server 2. 01. 2 R2.