YES! We had an application that was old and a number of its ‘working files’ referenced c:\program files\PROGRAM, but the new version of the app was c:\program files (x86)\PROGRAM This was embedded in many of the older files that referred to this path directly During the APP-V sequencing a junction point was created with mklink […]
Problem: We had hidden the Libraries and Network links in the explorer bar on our Citrix XenAPp 6.5 servers, but for some reason they continued to appear inside Office and some other applications. Turns out the common element was 32bit apps were all still able to see libraries and Network locations etc particularly when saving […]
Scenario: We had errors with the App-V publishing service on one of our AppV 5 infrastructure servers. Hotfix KB2940354 had already been installed. But during the remove of the APp-V 5.0 SP1 client, the hotfixes are not removed, nor can they be uninstalled. Error: The Application Virtualization setup has failed because a more recent version […]
We wanted to set a simple timeout and max authentication attempts on the netscaler before an end user locked out their Active Directory account (given that LDAP auth was the Primary authentication method this also means that a brute force style password attempt would be stopped at the netscaler and never hit the inside LDAP […]
This issue absolutely did my head in. I had to publish it for you all to save you the time if you ever come across it as I was close to QUITTING because I couldn’t get this to work. Scenario: Windows 2008 R2, Citrix XenApp 6.5 and Microsoft AppV 5 SP2. Applications published globally to […]
Scenario: Two storefront 2.5 servers running and delivering apps for our users via an external netscaler gateway services. Internally however all users still have the PNAgent / Citrix Online Plug In verion 12.1 – connecting to a citrix Web interface 5.4 site. The Storefront legacy support works – but each and every application the end […]
We have a package that needs to be installed and run inside the APP-V 5.0 ‘virtual environment’ or ‘bubble’. The following command ran Internet Explorer inside the APP-V package / environment then passed Internet explorer the URL Its a powershell script we have housed on a network share for all such XenApp scripts and specific […]
Problem When configuring a very restricted desktop for 3rd party access we configured the ‘Run Only specified Windows Applications’ Surprisingly very little actually stopped working. However the Windows Aero.theme was no longer being applied: Solution Add the following executables to allow the theme to apply: shell32.dll, dwm.exe, rundll32.exe svchost.exe, regsvr32.exe in the group policy location User […]
Scenario: 2 Citrix XenApp farms (6.5 and a 4.5) The 6.5 apps were always appearing and working ok The 4.5 apps would sporadically appear or even disappear during a refresh of the Gaeway page ‘ Some applications have been removed’ even if these applications had the option to allow via access gateway UNTICKED Solution: One […]
Script run before PVS server shutdown maintenance REM Prompt for vDisk version Number “C:adminToolsGeneralise_PVS_REGPrompt.vbs” Set wshShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) strAnswer = InputBox(“Enter New PVS Version Number”, _ “Version No”) RegUpdate=”HKLMSOFTWAREPVSvDiskVersion” WshShell.RegWrite RegUpdate,strAnswer,”REG_SZ” Wscript.Echo “Dont Forget to delete all user Local Profiles!” wshshell.run “RunDll32.exe sysdm.cpl,EditUserProfiles” REM clear event logs wevtutil cl System wevtutil cl Security wevtutil cl […]