Vista Ultimate (finally)

After "everyone" is on Vista, I finally obtained a copy of Vista Ultimate. Running on a Dell Inspiron E1405, Core Duo, 2gb memory, things are going well.

However, I did have a few small problems, and here are two three tweaks I used.

1. OpenVPN routing issue

When initiating a connection, I got this error message:
ROUTE: route addition failed using CreateIpForwardEntry: One or more arguments are not correct.

Upon a quick search, all I have to do is add two lines to the .ovpn configuration file.
route-method exe
route-delay 2

That's it. Easy.

2. Wireless Group Policy setting (or, Connect to Wireless Network before domain login)

This one is a bit tougher. In XP, the Dell driver took care of this with a check box that said "connect before login", or something similar.

In Vista, the Dell driver didn't provide such option. So on with Google.
Basically, use AD GPO to assign a wifi profile to your PC at bootup, so it could log in to the wifi network by itself, and establish a connection to available pre-determine SSID.

Check out this link. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2007/04/CableGuy/default.aspx

3. Citrix client reports "Protocol Driver Error" while using CSG (Citrix Secure Gateway)

On two separate Vista computers, I saw this error while trying to launch a published app. Could not figure it out. Firewall, Anti-Virus, nothing.

At one point, I did have one Vista PC running CSG successfully, so I knew it has to work. Turns out, the working Vista PC was using a "incompatible" version of Citrix client (v9.15). Both later Vista PCs were using v10.0. So I went back to 9.15, accepted the "incompatibility" warning message, and got CSG to work.