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If you have read some of my other posts recently you will know that I am in the process of designing and building a new Citrix environment to replace my companies old PS4 desktop setup. Recently we found that Citrix Policies were not applying on a consistent basis.  What normally occurs is that a key is created HKLM\software\policies\ .  This contains all of the policies which are relevant to your particular session. During our testing we found that this key was not being written when logging on, which meant users had access to everything they wanted including client drives from home! The problem was even harder to diagnose though, we saw that when Group Policy was updated automatically every 90 minutes during a session, the was written with the correct settings.  This meant nothing as the shell had already been setup and these settings would not apply. As these keys are not deleted on logoff, when new users logged in they would inherit the settings of another use...

As mentioned in my previous blogs, I am building a XenApp 6 environment for my organisations to replace the current PS4 farm. I am fixing all of the little niggles at the moment and I came across a really annoying issue. Environment ======================= Windows 2008 R2 Standard VMware vSphere 4.1 6GB Ram 2vCPU XenApp 6.0 Issue ======================= When right clicking an image and selecting Print from the context menu, a number of error messages appearing saying Your pictures can't be printed because this error occurred: There isn't enough available memory to print your pictures. Close some open programs, and then try again. Now, troubleshooting was a little difficult but this is the approach I took Memory - 6GB for 2 users...no issues showing in task manager etc. Permissions - occurs for all users, even local administrators Applications - uninstalled all other applications from server, problem still occurred Pro...

I am currently designing and building a XenApp 6 farm upgrade for my organisation. They are moving from Citrix Presentation Server 4 to XenApp 6 in the new year. Whilst designing the administration console for support staff I came across the following issue. Issue ========= When specifying more than one server in the discovery list for custom administrators and error message appears with the following text. "another discovered farm has the same name as the farm to which this server belongs. Connecting to different farms with the same name is not supported" Now, these servers are both in the same farm, but for some reason using a custom administrator it does not work. Fix ==================== After looking through the custom permissions provided to these administrators I found that adding the following permission fixed the problem. "View Server Information" Make sure when applying this setting you click the button "copy to subfolders" Once this has permissi...

Citrix have recently released Citrix Online Plugin 13.1 on their website. This is only available as part of Citrix Receiver 3.2 here. http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/details.asp?downloadId=2325597&productId=1689163 This makes it difficult to have the same experience which many are used to with older versions of the client especially in the enterprise arena with Program Neighborhood Agent. To install the plugin in the same way as before you can use the following installation string. CitrixReceiverEnterprise.exe ADDLOCAL="ICA_Client,SSON,USB,DesktopViewer,Flash,PN_Agent,Vd3d" ENABLE_SSON="Yes" Below are all of the installation string options. You need to remove the option "ReceiverInside" section CitrixReceiverEnterprise.exe /silent ADDLOCAL="ReceiverInside,ICA_Client,SSON ,USB,DesktopViewer,Flash,PN_Agent,Vd3d" SERVER_LOCATION="my.server" ENABLE_SSON= "No" INSTALLDIR="C:\myfolder" ENABLE_D...

Hi Check out my latest CTX article. It is a small case study on how to use the seamless flags to troubleshoot an application which is not working as desired in seamless. http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127043 Enjoy! Sam

Hi Whilst preparing my media for a long haul flight I have coming up recently, I wanted to make sure I got every last drop of energy out of my laptop battery before it ran out. What I wanted to do was have a script which closed all applications which are not required to run. All I want is to be able to watch VLC, but I have a number of programs which are running in the background on startup e.g. Dropbox. Obviously this is no use to me on a plane so why leave it running and have it wasting CPU resource? I first of all found this useful article at Lifehacker for quitting all applications http://lifehacker.com/5670054/create-a-shortcut-that-quits-every-running-windows-program The second thing I wanted this script to do was to change the power management profile to my super battery saving mode. Windows 7 gives you loads of options to tweak this how you see fit. I used the powercfg command to set the profile. More details on this can be found here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...

Hi Check out my latest addition to the Citrix KB site http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127078 This technote discusses problems related to window positioning on reconnect to XenDesktop 4 VDAs. Sam Google +