XenApp applications won’t launch in a PVS environment with multiple network...
If you click an application icon on your web interface or storefront site, Receiver will popup and say “Starting…” like normal and if you click for More information, it will say “Connection in...
View ArticleCitrix PVS server Vdisk is locked 0xffff8017 error as VMs boot up
Wow it’s been busy as we approach the end of the year. I am going through my Inbox as I can and I really appreciate all the comments and emails from you all. Really makes it worth while hearing how...
View ArticleXenCenter causing a SYN flood on port 3389 in a PVS environment
Had an interesting morning. Our network team discovered my workstation was making around 6000 requests an hour on RDP port 3389 through our internal firewall to an unroutable network reserved in our...
View ArticleHow to create a Microsoft Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 mandatory profile for...
You really just want a clean mandatory profile if you are deploying AppSense on Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2. The vast majority of companies don’t need to customize it. When you get into customization,...
View ArticleMicrosoft BGInfo for Windows 7 VMs running in Citrix PVS XenDesktop environments
If you’re running a Citrix VDI implementation using Provisioning Services (PVS) and XenDesktop, you need a way for your help desk and even the end user to easily identify the VM and pertinent system...
View ArticleOpening Microsoft Sharepoint documents in a Windows 7 XenDesktop session...
Wow, long title there! Just like it says, I’m going to cover opening Sharepoint documents in a Windows 7 XenDesktop VDI session using XenApp published Office products with content redirection enabled....
View ArticleHow to create a XenApp 6.5 Microsoft Server 2008 R2 golden image for PVS 6.1
I urge you to read my PVS 6.1 on XenDesktop/Windows 7 guide first. Read it and make sure you understand it. The same concepts and most all procedures apply to Server 2008 R2. So I am not going to get...
View ArticlePrepping a golden image with AppSense in a Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS)...
Here’s a little script I wrote to help me prep golden images in provisioned environments (pooled VMs) with AppSense DesktopNow. There is an excellent best practices guide on Citrix Provisioning Server...
View ArticleMicrosoft PowerShell script to enumerate security group members and email a...
I needed to write a script to enumerate a couple of security groups containing my XenDesktop VDI users and email an attachment with all the user names on a weekly basis to other Citrix admins. I...
View ArticleHow to install and configure XenApp 7.5/XenDesktop 7.5 delivery controllers
Today I want to cover the steps it takes to setup a XenApp 7.5 or XenDesktop 7.5 delivery controller for the first time. I want to demonstrate that it’s not all that different from previous versions of...
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