Redirected Start Menu problems

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Hello guys, 1st post hope you can help,

We have a 16 server metaframe xp farm (350 users), we have
redirected our start menu and desktops to a file server.
Everything was working ok and then we started experiencing
very long logon and logoff problems, which would cause all
users on the Citrix Servers to have latency problems, up
to 40 minutes in some cases, we added the necessary MS
hotfixes 824309 etc and this still did not appear to
resolve the issue.

After intensive investigation we found that if we stopped
the start menu redirection then the logon process speeded
up a great deal. We moved the start menu to another
servre thinking that there maybe an issue with our file
server but we get the same problems. At the moment, all
the Metaframe server have there start menus pointed at
themslves and users are working fine. Has anyone else had
these problems ? are there known issues redirecting start
menus on remote servers ? Ive looked at all the net
resources but cannot find anything, you guys are my last
chance !

thanx in advance

 

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hi,

the first thing that pops in my mind is the load on the server.
are there any performance related errors in the eventlog?
maybe the server doesn't have enough free connections...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317249
perhaps this article can help you to create more resources.

Omko H


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> Hello guys, 1st post hope you can help,
>
> We have a 16 server metaframe xp farm (350 users), we have
> redirected our start menu and desktops to a file server.
> Everything was working ok and then we started experiencing
> very long logon and logoff problems, which would cause all
> users on the Citrix Servers to have latency problems, up
> to 40 minutes in some cases, we added the necessary MS
> hotfixes 824309 etc and this still did not appear to
> resolve the issue.
>
> After intensive investigation we found that if we stopped
> the start menu redirection then the logon process speeded
> up a great deal. We moved the start menu to another
> servre thinking that there maybe an issue with our file
> server but we get the same problems. At the moment, all
> the Metaframe server have there start menus pointed at
> themslves and users are working fine. Has anyone else had
> these problems ? are there known issues redirecting start
> menus on remote servers ? Ive looked at all the net
> resources but cannot find anything, you guys are my last
> chance !
>
> thanx in advance

 

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thanks for the advice, We monitored the server and could
not see any performance related issues apart from the disk
% which was high. We have subsequently increased the size
of the array so there is over 80% free disk space. We
have monitored the server after the disk space increase
and we cannot see a problem with % disk time anymore but
the login problems still exist.

We did not get any 2022 errors but we had already changed
the reg settings as per the article after 1st encountering
the problem. We also had the NIC cards monitored and
found that they were operating well within acceptable
limits. Any other ideas ?
>-----Original Message-----
>hi,
>
>the first thing that pops in my mind is the load on the
server.
>are there any performance related errors in the eventlog?
>maybe the server doesn't have enough free connections...
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;317249
>perhaps this article can help you to create more
resources.
>
>Omko H
>
>
>"ibster" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in
bericht
>news:124b01c46eff$1993d0d0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hello guys, 1st post hope you can help,
>>
>> We have a 16 server metaframe xp farm (350 users), we
have
>> redirected our start menu and desktops to a file server.
>> Everything was working ok and then we started
experiencing
>> very long logon and logoff problems, which would cause
all
>> users on the Citrix Servers to have latency problems, up
>> to 40 minutes in some cases, we added the necessary MS
>> hotfixes 824309 etc and this still did not appear to
>> resolve the issue.
>>
>> After intensive investigation we found that if we
stopped
>> the start menu redirection then the logon process
speeded
>> up a great deal. We moved the start menu to another
>> servre thinking that there maybe an issue with our file
>> server but we get the same problems. At the moment, all
>> the Metaframe server have there start menus pointed at
>> themslves and users are working fine. Has anyone else
had
>> these problems ? are there known issues redirecting
start
>> menus on remote servers ? Ive looked at all the net
>> resources but cannot find anything, you guys are my last
>> chance !
>>
>> thanx in advance
>
>
>.
>

 

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Any more information on these issues ? Does anyone know
anything about dynamically generating Start Menus ?

>-----Original Message-----
>thanks for the advice, We monitored the server and could
>not see any performance related issues apart from the
disk
>% which was high. We have subsequently increased the
size
>of the array so there is over 80% free disk space. We
>have monitored the server after the disk space increase
>and we cannot see a problem with % disk time anymore but
>the login problems still exist.
>
>We did not get any 2022 errors but we had already changed
>the reg settings as per the article after 1st
encountering
>the problem. We also had the NIC cards monitored and
>found that they were operating well within acceptable
>limits. Any other ideas ?
>>-----Original Message-----
>>hi,
>>
>>the first thing that pops in my mind is the load on the
>server.
>>are there any performance related errors in the eventlog?
>>maybe the server doesn't have enough free connections...
>>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
>us;317249
>>perhaps this article can help you to create more
>resources.
>>
>>Omko H
>>
>>
>>"ibster" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef
in
>bericht
>>news:124b01c46eff$1993d0d0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>>> Hello guys, 1st post hope you can help,
>>>
>>> We have a 16 server metaframe xp farm (350 users), we
>have
>>> redirected our start menu and desktops to a file
server.
>>> Everything was working ok and then we started
>experiencing
>>> very long logon and logoff problems, which would cause
>all
>>> users on the Citrix Servers to have latency problems,
up
>>> to 40 minutes in some cases, we added the necessary MS
>>> hotfixes 824309 etc and this still did not appear to
>>> resolve the issue.
>>>
>>> After intensive investigation we found that if we
>stopped
>>> the start menu redirection then the logon process
>speeded
>>> up a great deal. We moved the start menu to another
>>> servre thinking that there maybe an issue with our file
>>> server but we get the same problems. At the moment,
all
>>> the Metaframe server have there start menus pointed at
>>> themslves and users are working fine. Has anyone else
>had
>>> these problems ? are there known issues redirecting
>start
>>> menus on remote servers ? Ive looked at all the net
>>> resources but cannot find anything, you guys are my
last
>>> chance !
>>>
>>> thanx in advance
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>