139 articles tagged “citrix”
If SEP is eating RAM and CPU on your XenApp servers from multiple SmcGui.exe and ccApp.exe processes, here's a script to disable them. Follows Symantec's own KB guidance.
If you need to change the SQL server name, account, or password on a XenApp 6.5 farm, dsmaint config updates the mf20.dsn connection without breaking IMA.
If your XenServer VMs won't start with 'certificate verify failed', the cause is likely an expired StorageLink SSL cert. Here's how to find it and fix it fast.
If XenDesktop 5.5 logs Event 30105 'servers do not trust the server' and desktops won't launch, you need to enable XML Trust on each server and configure DNS address resolution.
If your users are getting prompted for credentials or seeing the Windows 2008 logon screen on XenApp 6.5 / WI 5.4, SSO is broken. Fix it by correcting the Receiver ADM template and XML Trust.
If your XenServer host is frozen (blank console, xe commands hanging) but VMs are still running, here's how to restart the XAPI toolstack and fix it without rebooting.
If Java applets won't load in published IE on XenApp, the JRE cache path is broken. Here's how to redirect the Java deployment cache so web applets load correctly.
If the Citrix QuickLaunch tool throws 'TABCTL32.OCX is not registered' (error 339), just register the OCX with regsvr32. Quick fix for your admin workstation.
I attended Brian Madden's Desktop Virtualization seminar and came away with some solid takeaways on XP end-of-life, VDI sprawl, and why the foundation matters most.
If the standard XenApp or Presentation Server uninstall fails, use msiexec with CTX_MF_FORCE_SUBSYSTEM_UNINSTALL=YES to force it from the command line.
If you need to push EdgeSight 5.4 agents to all your XenApp farms in bulk, here are the batch install scripts for 32-bit and 64-bit Server 2003/2008 with verbose logging.
The Web Interface 5.4 plugin install page sends users to the wrong download. Here's how to host Receiver directly on your WI server so users get the correct client automatically.
If EdgeSight is throwing 'report server cannot decrypt the symmetric key' after an update, you need to delete and recreate the SSRS encryption keys with rskeymgmt. Here's how.
If Firefox is blowing out roaming profile storage quotas in XenApp, XenDesktop, or View, redirect the cache out of the user profile to a local path using profiles.ini.
Need more storage on your XenServer 5.6 lab without adding internal drives? Here's how to format a USB external drive to ext3 and add it as a local storage repository.
If your HTTP server headers are exposing IIS or Apache version info, you're giving attackers a head start. Here's how to use NetScaler Rewrite policies to obfuscate them.
Your SSL redirect is throwing a cert error because the cert doesn't cover the origin domain. SAN certs fix this. Here's when wildcards fall short and how to configure clean 301 redirects.
Citrix bumped the free VPX Express to 5 Mbps and released a free Platinum edition VPX Developer license. If you need a lab or test NetScaler with advanced features, this is it.
