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 […]
Problem: We wanted to Autoformat Citrix PVS Write Cache Drive of the PVS D drive (writecache) for things like Citrix logs, edgesight database. Otherwise the servers boot up first time and complain they cant create or access the pagefile. Want the D Drive labelled with Server name so if ever they are moved or detached – […]
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 […]
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 […]
Situation: Our C: drive on a test PVS image (Private mode acccess) was nearly full We extended the vDisk following this process Open Cmd Prompt diskpart Select vDisk file=”Path to your PVS vDisk” List vDisk expand vDisk maximum=xxxxx (in Mb) (61440 for 60GB etc) attach vDisk list Disk list volume Select volume x extend List […]
Problem: Our webex client would install on the xenapp image ok for any user, webex would connect and work ok first time, subsequent attempts to connect to a test meeting would crash the webex client. Solution – Create a SYMLINK Ensure that Appsense AM Agent is STOPPED before beginning the install. It was preventing the installation […]
According to citrix’s article (that applied to the wrong version of PVS) http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX126307 try rebooting the Citrix SOAP service My fix however was simply change the Microsoft Volume Licensing option on the VDISK to NONE, OK, then change it back.
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 […]
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 […]
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