XenApp Sessions not logging off properly
Here’s one that confused a lot of people. Environment: XenApp 6.5 App-V (although we didn’t realize this was part of the issue until later) Symptoms: Sometimes user sessions would not log-off properly....
View ArticleTroubleshooting Smart Access Policies
Troubleshooting XenApp 6.5 Policies when connecting over AGEE When a session policy is used to validate a connection based on client info, http headers or Things to Check Is web interface 5.4 being...
View ArticleXenDesktop: quick deploy cannot be run because the controller needs updating
I ran into this peculiar error after installing my XenDesktop 5.6 Installation. I searched for a solution online and never found one, there were a few forum posts regarding the issue and some of which...
View ArticleXenDesktop users cannot login to a VDA when the Host is down
Environment: 1. 2 datacenters, each datacenter consists of hypervisor with associated storage 2. Users were connected to virtual machines hosted on both datacenters 3. One datacenter went down with...
View ArticlePowershell: Shrink VHD’s
I came across this post recently which contains a powershell script to shrink a dynamically expanding vhd. What was most interesting was that this was also designed for Citrix Provisioning Server...
View ArticleWindows 8 Receiver (Beta)
I noticed that there was a version of receiver in the Windows Store yesterday and decided to install it. I was quite surprised when i realised that this was the very same Native “Metro” UI Receiver...
View ArticleGetting Override user device names from WI 5.x to Storefront
I came across the need for my user’s device to show the username as iPad’s have no client name. In WI 5.x this was needed for several remote connections and thin clients. To enable it was simple: For...
View ArticleBackup Your Blog
I lost my host for this site a few days back and all my blogs since October are gone. Sorry if you follow a link to an article that no longer exists Now to rediscover what i already posted.
View ArticleXenDesktop Power State “Unknown”
I just ran into this issue with a client. Thankfully there is a citrix article on it -Â http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131267 I was happy to see that someone else had already blogged scripts to...
View ArticleReally large Winsxs folder?
Issue: Windows Server really likes to fill out the WinSxS folder in C:\Windows\ with updates and uninstalls from applied updates. Exhibit A. Solution: To reduce it run this command on the server from...
View ArticleWordPress migration, funky encoding
After my latest WP upgrade (complete db migration to another host) i got a lot of strange characters in my posts. Some replaced things like ” with “. Some just inserted random  into posts. Clearly...
View ArticleCommon IRC Question: Supress the URL/Email diaglog in Receiver
Commonly in the citrix irc chat room people ask about how to disable the initial configuration screen for Receiver. For those unfamiliar with the latest releases of receiver >3.3 – Citrix have...
View ArticleWindows Store not installing/updating?
If you have a store that will not update your apps and can’t seem to install any new ones then you may have a corrupt cache. It would look something like the below, although it could be stuck on...
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