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 […]
The minimum settings you need configured are (settings are examples) REBOOT SCHEDULE FREQUENCY: DAYS REBOOT SCHEDULE START DATE: WHEN TO START – I HAD DATE OF POLICY CREATION REBOOT SCHEDULE TIME: 01:05 AM SCHEDULE REBOOTS: ENABLED You can troubleshoot if its applying in the registry of a machine that has the policy applied to here […]
Problem: After the setup of a new Edgesight server it was noticed that the notifications settings of the Citrix Edgesight server were correct and when testing them would get an instant email from the edgesight server (Server Configuration > Settings > Notifications > Test Email button) However when testing an Edgesight alert the ‘Alert’ emails […]
With the release of storefront 2.5 we can make published applications mandatory within the Receiver and the storeweb, which is SWEET. Publish the application and change its description to keyword: mandatory(subsequent keywords can be separate by a space i.e. “keywords: mandatory featured” If the mandatory keyword from the published application is removed, the shortcut stays, […]
STOREFRONT 2.5 UPGRADE from 2.1 – Notes We were running Storefront 2.1. It was installed and working fine for all normal storefront web and support for SSON legacy clients with a 2 node storefront farm via a load balanced netscaler setup. We decided to install the Storefront 2.5 over the top – just to see […]
Problem: When launching PNAgent apps from a published desktop the session sharing would intermittently break. When running the desktop inside the network, it would generally behave, externally via the Citrix Secure Gateway the session sharing wouldn’t work, a separate session would launch for most if not all of the Citrix applications published via PNAgent or […]
The Internet Explorer Maintenance options in group policy are no longer enabled or supported in IE 10. Previously we used this for setting the users homepage, publishing a few company defined favorites and the Proxy server / pac file. In order to facilitate the same / similar functionality you need to use GPP, but this […]
Security Log > Audit Failure Event ID 4625 An account failed to log on. Subject: Security ID: NETWORK SERVICE Account Name: SERVER$ Account Domain: DOMAIN Logon ID: 0x3e4 Logon Type: 8 Account For Which Logon Failed: Security ID: NULL SID Account Name: jamesscanlon Account Domain: DOMAIN Failure Information: Failure Reason: Unknown user name or bad […]