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 […]
Problem: After a recent image update one of our XenApp/Windows servers was booting but hanging at the ‘Applying Microsoft Offline Files Policy’ and taking a long time to ‘finish’ and display the CTRL + ALT + DEL screen. The Windows offline files policy set to disable for all. Solution: This was in fact a red herring, […]
I want all PVS servers to dynamically display their environment on the desktop when a users logs into the desktop. This can be achieved by: 1) adding a new ‘personality’ variable to each device in PVS 2) scripting the import of the variables from the c:personality.ini file to the windows registry 3) setting BGINFO to […]
Const ForReading = 1 Set objFSO = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) Set objOutputFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(“output.txt”) strComputer = “.” Set objWMIService = GetObject(“winmgmts:\” & strComputer & “rootcimv2”) Set FileList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ (“ASSOCIATORS OF {Win32_Directory.Name=’c:temp’} Where ” _ & “ResultClass = CIM_DataFile”) For Each objFile In FileList Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(objFile.Name, ForReading) strText = objTextFile.ReadAll objTextFile.Close objOutputFile.WriteLine strText Next […]