Best Practices BB for Wisdom

Here’s the first posting in the Wisdom Buildingblock archive. This one  contains some best practices for Servers and for Workstations. This is essentially  just a bunch of stuff which made sense at the time, but hopefully you may have some use for it.

This file contains two buildingblocks which contains some nice registry fixes picked up along the way, which can make things somewhat easier for you.  The Reghacks in these buildingblocks is just collections of relevant stuff that’s been googled over time. Slice and dice the modules as you like. The Workstation building block contains the following Reghacks

• Delete cached copies of roaming profiles. We all know what  this one does, right?
• Disable the XP tour. Eliminates that pesky bubble which will bother new users the first 3 times they logon
• Remove VMware HGFS.dat (shared folder support) This thing has a nasty habbit of locking up profiles. Note: The HGFS reghack is disabled per default as you probably will need to change the Network Provider order so it matches your target environment
• Remove USB device checking. This removes the This Device Can Perform Faster message. This is a legacy setting back from VMware 5x as it didn’t support USB 2.0. You may however still find use for it
• Kill the indexing service on Vista. If you know where your s*** is, all this thing is gonna do is slow you down.
• Clean up StubPaths. This will remove the first-time config of IE, Outlook Express etc at first login. You’re probably going to use PowerFuse for this anyway, right?
• Reduce animation on .default profile. This can reduce the zoom effect when the PowerFuse loader screen pops up (not tested completely) but give it a whirl

The Server Best Practices module contains:

• Disable the Shutdown Event Tracker. Yeah yeah, lot’s of good reasons to keep it, but if you hate to answer why you want to reboot your server, this is for you.
• Disable print spooler logging stuff to the eventlog
• Disable the Manage Your Server thing from popping up the first time you log in
• Delete the HKLM shadow keys (see the module for more info)
• Clean out specific citrix stuff from the HKLM Run key, such as Java update and the Icabar.
• Clean up the stub paths, same as the workstation module.

On a side note, RESguru.com now has two new co-authors!

/TRG

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