38 articles tagged “citrix-xendesktop”
There are a lot of misconceptions about what Citrix Cloud actually is. Here's how to extend your on-prem XenApp/XenDesktop to Citrix Cloud and Azure using Cloud Connectors.
XenApp/XenDesktop 7.11 lets you publish content (documents, URLs) with custom icons via PowerShell. Here are the exact cmdlets to deliver content shortcuts to your users.
30+ EUC experts (myself included) put together a 143-page book with 200+ VDI best practices. Covers hardware, hypervisor, broker, GPU, networking, and user experience.
If your VDI logins are slow, it's probably bloated GPOs and folder redirection, not storage. Here's how AppSense Environment Manager speeds up both in XenDesktop.
Here's how to load balance Citrix Director 7.6 across multiple servers on a NetScaler. Includes the service group config, monitor setup, and tips for making Director work better for help desk.
If you want help desk to shadow XenDesktop VMs from Director using Remote Assistance, you'll need Group Policy configured and Director 7.6.100. Here's the setup.
If your XenApp 7.x VDA is stuck on 'Initializing' in Studio, your users can't launch anything. Here's a self-healing PowerShell script that detects the issue and restarts the broker service automatically.
If your PVS XenDesktop VMs started logging Netlogon 5719 and GP 1129 errors after a XenServer Tools update, it reset the NIC provider order. Restore the correct binding order and they'll talk to the DC again.
If you need to pull data off dozens of remote VMs under time pressure, use PsExec with Xcopy or Robocopy in a batch script to copy in parallel to a central share.
Firefox 30.0 broke Citrix session launches by setting all plugins to 'Ask to Activate'. Here's how to allow the ICA Client plugin so your users can launch apps again.
If the VDA upgrade from 5.6 to 7.5 fails with InstallFailure 1603, residual registry keys from the old VDA are blocking it. Here's how to clean them up and finish the upgrade.
I've deployed both NetScaler and F5 Big-IP in production. Here's an honest comparison covering ICA proxy, SmartAccess, StoreFront LB, and why the right ADC choice depends on your Citrix delivery picture.
Setting up XenApp 7.5 / XenDesktop 7.5 delivery controllers for the first time? Here's the full walkthrough, including what changed with the FMA architecture from older XenApp.
If telnet from your NetScaler NSIP won't reach the STA, you're testing from the wrong IP. You need to test from the SNIP. Here's how using a temporary LB service.
If your Citrix Access Gateway shows a blank page in IE 11, add an X-UA-Compatible meta tag to the NetScaler Gateway index.html. Fixes it without touching client browsers.
If you've got app sprawl across multiple XenApp farms, here's how I used the XenApp SDK, PowerShell, and IIS to build an automated report showing every published app in one URL.
If you're redirecting a Web Interface site to a new URL during a migration, make sure you don't break PNAgent. Use an IIS meta-refresh that only hits browser users.
If you're adding a second AD domain and Citrix farm after an acquisition, the Web Interface domain dropdown and XML Brokers need specific config. Here's what causes the silent login failure.
