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Microsoft, XenDesktop

XenDesktop Time Zone Issues

Kyle Wise
November 30, 2015
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XenDesktop sessions were not updating their time even after all the correct policies were configured in Citrix Policies and Microsoft Group Policy. This only occurred from workstations in one building…

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Remote Desktop Services is Currently Busy

Kyle Wise
November 30, 2015

How to Fix Remote Desktop Services is currently busy. If users are getting an error about “RDS busy” or “The Group Policy Client failed logon” I recommend installing the latest…

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Citrix Receiver

Keyboard on MAC does not work when connecting to Citrix

Kyle Wise
November 30, 2015

We had one user report that their keyboard on a MAC did not work when connecting to Citrix, mouse worked fine and the keyboard worked fine locally. Testing from other…

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Citrix, Citrix Receiver

Allow Receiver to Access Unsecured StoreFront Site

Kyle Wise
November 30, 2015
Allow Receiver to Access Unsecured StoreFront Site

Citrix Receiver requires SSL to connect to StoreFront by default. To allow connections to without SSL, implement the following registry keys on your endpoints.   Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\AuthManager (for 64-bit…

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XenApp, XenDesktop

Microsoft Outlook 2010 Randomly Crashes When Trying to Print or View Emails on XenDesktop 7.6

Kyle Wise
November 30, 2015

Outlook has been randomly crashing for some of our users after we applied our monthly Microsoft patches with RTFHTML.DLL and ACTIVEDS.DLL error messages below when they are performing standard tasks…

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Adobe Acrobat 10 Issues opening PDFs after installing Acrobat update.

Kyle Wise
November 30, 2015
Adobe Acrobat 10 Issues opening PDFs after installing Acrobat update.

Users started to receive this error when opening PDF documents after patching Acrobat 10. “There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired.”…

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Citrix, Citrix Receiver

End User Guide to Install Citrix Receiver on their Personal Computer

Kyle Wise
November 30, 2015
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End User Guide to Install Citrix Receiver on their Personal Computer

How to Install Citrix Receiver 4.3.100   Open Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox or Google Chrome and type in the URL below in the address bar. http://www.citrix.com/go/receiver.html Click Run at the…

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Citrix, XenDesktop

XenDesktop 7.6 Idle Pool TurnOn and Idle Pool Initiated Shutdown

Kyle Wise
November 30, 2015

Recently I was working on a XenDesktop 7.6 project where we were seeing virtual machines continuously powering on and off occur when more than one machine catalog was added to…

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XenDesktop

XenDesktop Appears Suck on Applying Group Policy Registry Policy

Kyle Wise
November 30, 2015

Logging into a new XenDesktop session users randomly appear to be stuck on Microsoft Windows logon screen “Applying Group Policy Registry Policy”. However when adjusting the size from window mode…

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XenDesktop

Group Policy Preference Items not applying

Kyle Wise
November 29, 2015
Group Policy Preference Items not applying

Group Policy Intermittently Failing to Process Our team was asked to take a look at an escalated ticket about intermittent issues with missing icons, profile settings, and various group policy…

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XenDesktop

How to Find the Last Connected User from XenDesktop Studio

Kyle Wise
November 29, 2015

Sometimes you need to find the last virtual machine a user logged into. This could be for numerous reasons, but one of the main reasons I need to find the…

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XenApp, XenDesktop

Allow Additional Time for Applications or Desktops to Start.

Kyle Wise
November 29, 2015
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XenApp Applications or XenDesktop failing to start- First you should figure out why the application is taking so long to start. There really shouldn’t be any reason why your users…

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Provisioning Services

Using SysInternals RAMMAP to Verify PVS vDisk System Cache

Kyle Wise
November 29, 2015
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Using SysInternals RAMMAP to Verify PVS vDisk System Cache

Verifying Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) vDisk System Cache 1.Reboot one of your PVS to clear the current system cache. 2. Open SysInternals RAMMap. 3. Boot up 1 target device and…

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Provisioning Services

Citrix Provisioning Services Show Connected Devices Timeout Error

Kyle Wise
November 29, 2015
Citrix Provisioning Services Show Connected Devices Timeout Error

PVS 7 Show Connected Devices Timeout Error If your having issues viewing the target devices connected to PVS by clicking on “Show Connected Devices” you will need to update the…

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Provisioning Services

XD Wizard and Streamed VM Template Hardware Order

Kyle Wise
November 29, 2015
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XD Wizard and Streamed VM Template Hardware Order

When creating multiple virtual machines for a new XenDesktop Machine Catalog, I noticed that the wizard wasn’t honoring the templates hardware boot order. New virtual machines started up and gave…

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XenDesktop 7.X Studio Policies Error

Kyle Wise
November 29, 2015
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How to Fix Citrix discrepancy Policy Errors- If you ever get the error below when you open up Citrix Studio, click on the Policies node and see this error. (Changes…

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Citrix Receiver, StoreFront

The citrix receiver received a corrupt ica file the name (unauthorized”:true) is not allowed for a section

Kyle Wise
November 29, 2015
The citrix receiver received a corrupt ica file the name (unauthorized”:true) is not allowed for a section

The Citrix receiver received a corrupt ICA file the name (unauthorized”:true) is not allowed for a section. Here’s a couple things that I did to fix similar corrupt ICA messages…

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