Post setup (or reconfiguration) of Azure AD Synchronization there is a prompt Azure Active Directory is configured to use AD attribute objectGUID as the source anchor attribute. Its strongly recommended that you let Azure manage the source anchor for you. Please run the wizard again and select Configure Source Anchor. Why should we do this? […]
We have a number of functional expectations to test prior to Upgrading to Citrix Receiver 4.2. It is imperative that things as simple as ‘desktop shortcuts’, appropriate start menu integration and XenApp session sharing work to keep the end users happy and prevent the “same ole service calls being logged again”. Examples: A 100% dynamic client start […]
Situation Added a new list of Computers to begin accessing our App-V 5 Infrastructure. The access to the servers and share are driven by AD Group “App-V Citrix Computers” and “App-V LT or DT Computers” etc Error AppV 5 Publishing Error 0x74F00F0C Event ID: 1008, Error, Logname Microsoft-AppV-Client/Admin With creating the new group for desktops […]
Situation: We had a number of production VMs running a Citrix desktop workload on Citrix Xenapp 6.5 via Citrix PVS 7.1 (SP3) with cache to RAM with overflow to hard drive, set at 2048Mb. VMware Hypervisor 5.5 and Appv 5 SP2 with HRP4 running in full infrastructure mode (no Microsoft SCCM) and 30GB of packages running […]
Scenario: Our AppV Applications on Citrix are published globally to the citrix servers computer accounts so the apps are available before the users login. These applications all launch and integrate with AppV either directly calling the AppV exe or by using the /appvve or switch on a hosted Citrix desktop. When the same AppV application […]
YES! We had an application that was old and a number of its ‘working files’ referenced c:\program files\PROGRAM, but the new version of the app was c:\program files (x86)\PROGRAM This was embedded in many of the older files that referred to this path directly During the APP-V sequencing a junction point was created with mklink […]
Problem: We had hidden the Libraries and Network links in the explorer bar on our Citrix XenAPp 6.5 servers, but for some reason they continued to appear inside Office and some other applications. Turns out the common element was 32bit apps were all still able to see libraries and Network locations etc particularly when saving […]
Scenario: We had errors with the App-V publishing service on one of our AppV 5 infrastructure servers. Hotfix KB2940354 had already been installed. But during the remove of the APp-V 5.0 SP1 client, the hotfixes are not removed, nor can they be uninstalled. Error: The Application Virtualization setup has failed because a more recent version […]
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 […]