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 […]
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 […]