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…
Sage PeachTree Breaks XenDesktop VDA Registration
One of our clients had an old version of Sage PeachTree that they wanted installed in their XenDesktop image. After installing the application and restarting the XenDesktop virtual machine I…
Session Brokering Issue in XenDesktop 7.1 and 7.5 Could Result in Unauthorized Access to Another User’s Desktop
This fix addresses a session brokering issue.[From ][#LA4447] (Superseded by BrokerAgent750WX64003) Here is the response I got from Citrix support. http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX140723 addresses the session brokering issue and update all the…
Netscaler 10.5 Fails With AppFlow and HDX Insight
When using AppFlow and HDX Insight we were continuously having issues with our Netscalers. They would crash and reboot causing all connections to be dropped from the primary node. The…
There are no apps or desktops available to you at this time
There are no apps or desktops available to you at this time. Root cause of this issue was the SQL database transaction log was set to autogrow and filled up…
Suppress Citrix Receiver Popup
How to disable the popup windows for Citrix Receiver when users login. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Citrix\PNAgent : Value Name:”SuppressURLPromptAtLogin” DWORD:00000001 Disable Receiver Popup version 3.3 to version 4.3- HKLM\Software\Citrix\Dazzle “AllowAddStore”= N x64 bit…
There are no apps or desktops available Citrix StoreFront 2.5
StoreFront might be setting your Delivery Controller as failed/down. If the Delivery Controllers are marked down, Storefront will wait 5 minutes before trying to broker connections again. This can cause…
Netscaler Memory Usage Hits 85%+
When our Netscaler InUse memory usage showed 85%+, the StoreFront and Delivery Controllers load balancers stopped working, and the Netscaler Gateway web pages intermittently stop displaying and timed out while…
Screen Saver Does Not Start in XenDesktop
To correct the issue with screen savers and power-save options in XenDesktop and XenApp 7 add this registry key to your virtual machines or master image. Hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Key path…
XenDesktop Time Zone Issues
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…
Keyboard on MAC does not work when connecting to Citrix
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…
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…