SCOM Alerts in Citrix Director- Additional Details on How to Configure Alerts within Citrix Director 7.7 After you have successfully completed the upgrade or new installation you can proceed with…
SCOM Alerts in Citrix Director
Citrix Director 7.7 Configuring Proactive Monitoring and Alerting
Configuring Alerts and SMTP Settings- Citrix Director 7.7 Configuring SMTP Settings- 1. Login to Director and click on the Alerts icon at the top. 2. Click on Email Server Configuration.…
Upgrading Citrix Director to 7.7
Upgrading Citrix Director to 7.7.0.6142 Download the XenDesktop 7.7 ISO from Citrix.com. Open the ISO and navigate to x64\DesktopDirector folder and launch DesktopDirector.exe. Select the check box “I accept the…
PVS Manual Merge Process When PVS Console Fails to Merge Base
How to manually merge vDisk versions when the PVS Console Fails to Merge PVS Differencing VHD Tmestamp differs to parent VHD. Unable to merge versions into a new merged base…
Installing Microsoft Operations Suite Agent
Downloading and Installing Microsoft Operations Suite Agent Login to your MOS Portal: Select your Workspace. Click on your Company Name and Click the Gear to go to Settings page. Download…
Citrix PVS 7.6 Performance Testing and Verifying System Caching is working Correctly
Verify PVS vDisk System Cache When Using CIFS How to verify your Citrix PVS Servers are correctly caching the vDisks and reading from system cache and not from back end…
StoreFront Communication Timeout Cannot Complete Request StoreFront Error Message
Intermittent issues logging into StoreFront internally and also externally through the Netscaler Gateway where users would get a “Cannot Complete your Request Message”. If you have already looked at the…
StoreFront web.config File Settings to Change When Load Balancing
When you are utilizing a Netscaler load balancer for your XenApp XML Brokers or XenDesktop Delivery Controllers I recommend changing these settings in your web.config file. Open the web config…
Citrix Receiver System.IO.FileNotFound Exception
System.IO.FileNotFound Exception error occurs when launching Desktops, but not Published Apps. We have seen this occur when the users don’t reboot in between uninstalling the previous version of Citrix Receiver…
Microsoft Office 2010 Could Not Create The Work File
Opening Microsoft Office Outlook or Word users were getting this error message “Word could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable.” This occurs when the Cache string…
Improve Authentication Time with Citrix Receiver
Add the registry keys below to your endpoints or images where you have Citrix Receiver Installed. This should help improve authentication times when launching Receiver. 32 bit REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\Dazzle…
Receiver SelfService Command Line to Enumerate Apps Without Receiver Window Pop-Up
To start Citrix Receiver and enumerate applications without opening the Citrix Receiver window use the following command line for SelfServicePlugin in the startup folder. C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\SelfServicePlugin\SelfServicePlugin.exe -poll The -Poll…
Allow More Time For XenDesktop Login Process
XenDesktop Session Launches Then Disappears You can update the AutoLogonTimeout registry key, however if your logins are taking longer than 90 seconds you should dig into why logins are so…
Citrix Director Optimizations and Advanced Configurations
Citrix Director standard configurations are fine for most cases, but when you want to configure Director so it’s a little more user friendly here are some changes I have made.…
System Center Endpoint Protection With XenDesktop
Using System Center Endpoint Protection Anti-Virus with XenDesktop and PVS. In most environments you want your workstations and servers to be running current AV definitions so the challenge with using…
Citrix PVS Replication Status Server is not reachable.
Viewing the replication status of your vdisks I noticed an issue where there was an exclamation mark next to the server name stating the server was not reachable. First we…
Redirect Multiple Different Netscaler Gateway HTTPS URLs to your new Netscaler Gateway URL Seamlessly
Redirect Multiple Different Netscaler Gateway HTTPS URLs to your new Netscaler Gateway URL Seamlessly This is possible without (SAN Cert) subject name alternative certificate including all the host names, wildcard…