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 […]
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 […]