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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Ensure you run this on a XA box connected to the farm you want to interrogate and ensure that the XASDK6.5 from citrix is installed from HERE Run the following command from the XenApp SDK Powershell Prompt: Get-XAApplication | Format-Table -AutoSize -Property BrowserName | Out-File c:pubapps.txt
Clients – Windows XP Thin Client T5740, Receiver 3.1 Servers – Windows 2008 R2, XenApp 6.5 Problem: When end users were selecting the Start> Windows Security or Start > Arrow > Lock option in the desktop menus there is a 10 – 20 second delay before the menu appears. It also affected volume control speed and even the […]
Iexplore.exe sessions were opening and hanging with the description of the iexplore.exe typically when clicking links in outlook. Add the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWAREWow6432NodeCitrixSFTADisableServerFTA registry key with the following values: Name: DisableServerFTA Type: REG_DWORD Value: 1
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, […]