When a user start a RES Workspace Manager session. Every action is logged into the Event Log. Administrators can use this log for fine tuning the environment. What I always do is filtering out which steps take a lot of time, and dig into that step to make the login procedure faster and faster. The only thing I always ran into is the Date/Time stamp before an event. Is it the beginning of the ending of the event?

First start the event viewer. This can be done (there are more ways) by clicking on: Diagnostics –> User Sessions –> Double click on the users you want to view.

When a user logs on into a new environment, whether or not managed by RES PowerFuse, it’s always good to have a backup script in place for setting up the missing home drive. For instance my file share for hosting the home directories is \\FILESERVER\USERS$. There everyone has a folder equal to his Username. So my home directory would be \\FILESERVER\USERS$\Jeroen

But. When the folder Jeroen doesn’t exist I want to auto create it by an ‘External Task’ (RES PowerFuse) or login script.

To do this, add the following line in the loginscript.

IF NOT EXIST \\FILESERVER\USERS$\%USERNAME% MD \\FILESERVER\USERS\%USERNAME%

Or create an External Task (before running any other task, runonce, no time-out, wait before continue), in RES PowerFuse with that line.

Now the tricky part. Because that script is run with the users his credentials, the NTFS rights on the share must be pretty damn good . Otherwise, other users can access folders from other users.

When a Citrix profile is created, and added to the RES PowerFuse environment it comes with an empty file extensions field.

In this example I have profiled Acrobat Reader and added to the Res PowerFuse environment. I have also added the pdf file extension to the application. Now when opening a direct pdf file on my home directory, an empty Acrobat Reader window is displayed.

Edit the pdf file extension in PowerFuse and replace “%1” with /extracmdline:”%1”

(sorry for the Dutch screenshot)

Q: How-to direct open a file from Explorer and parse the file name into a Citrix Profile which is managed by RES PowerFuse.

A: Replace in RES PowerFuse the file extension parameter from “%1” to /extracmdline:”%1”