Situation: we had migrated our desktop from Xenapp 5.0 on w2008 sp2 (non r2) to XenApp6.5 2008 R2. This included an upgrade to Appsense 8.3 and introduction of Appsense personalisation. Older applications still left on the old desktop needed the printer settings from the new desktop. We had to set our new Appsense EM to hive the printer settings to the […]
Screipt provided will change the password associated with the PDF Printer AMYUNI Documet Converter 400. This had to be automated as our PVS environment couldnt be updated everytime we wanted to change the devices password company wide. START SCRIPT—————————————————– Option Explicit ‘ This VB script can be used to configure the installed printer Dim PRINTER_NAME PRINTER_NAME = “PDFPRNxx” Dim […]
Situation: we had recently repackaged a new verson of an applicaiton and though the ucn path had changed, the APP-V name was identical. Error: The Application Virtualization Client cannot use the OSD file specified because the GUID attribute for the CODEBASE element changed (rc 0C403B04-00001004). Solution: under sftcmc.msc the properties of the app showed the OSD file pointing to the previous […]
:TestAgain CLS IF NOT EXIST c:FOLDERALERT_* GOTO NOALERT “C:windowssndrec32.exe” /play /Close “C:WINDOWSMEDIAWindows Ringin.wav” REm Start /MIN “C:Program FilesWindows Media Playerwmplayer.exe” “C:WINDOWSMEDIAWindows Ringin.wav” REM “%SystemRoot%system32SoundRecorder.exe” /CLOSE /PLAY “C:WINDOWSMEDIAWindows Ringin.wav” PING 127.0.0.1 -n 5 -w 2000 >NUL Rem Taskkill /IM “WMplayer.exe” /F PING 127.0.0.1 -n 5 -w 2000 >NUL GOTO TestAgain :NOALERT PING 127.0.0.1 -n 5 -w 4000 >NUL […]
Scenario: A password protected printer, where the password changes every month. We had to manually enter the new password when our PVS images were rebooted, as we didnt want to update the PVS image with just a password change (we hadnt introduced DFS-R for the PVS image management so it was manual and time consuming) Solution: EXPORT the settings to a […]
Copy of script used to further ‘generalize’ our XenApp servers before cloning via PVS __ BEGIN SCRIPT ___ REM clear event logs wevtutil cl System wevtutil cl Security wevtutil cl Application wevtutil cl Setup wevtutil cl “Forwarded Events” REM Stop Edgesight and Delete database net stop RsCorSvc net stop FirebirdServerCSMInstance del “C:ProgramDataCitrixSystem MonitoringDataRSDATR.FDB” /q del […]
Setting the following keys will allow app-v packages to be installed from the packages MSI (if the option is ticked for said package when sequencing) this should then allow for the packages to be run in offline / disconnect mode indefinitely. MSI Install Example: msiexec.exe /i “app-v msi package” sftpath=”path to matching package sft file” Registry […]
We used altiris to call these commands remotely to manage the Thin Clients Disable the Write Filter: c:windowssystem32ewfmgr.exe -all -disable Enable the Write Filter: c:windowssystem32ewfmgr.exe c: -enable Commit the Changes: c:windowssystem32ewfmgr.exe c: -commit
When opening Internet explorer on XenApp 6.5 – we would get a prompt that a program is trying to open outside of Internet explorer’s protected mode. Error: This program will open outside of Protected mode. Internet Explorer’s Protected mode helps protect your computer. If you do not trust this website, do not open this program. Name: Citrix FTA, […]