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, […]
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 […]
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 […]