Automating VDA Migration Between Catalogs in XenDesktop
Background Customers using Citrix XenDesktop with dedicated catalog may want to relocate the desktops to another catalog for various reasons such as wanting to change the datastore behind it or simply to change the catalog from Un-managed to Power Managed. Doing this manually would be painful as you will have to remove the machines from…
Ivanti Environment Manager Configuration: How to export Shortcuts, Drive Mappings and Printer Mappings with Powershell
Recently, I got asked by one of my customers if there is a way to extract information from Ivanti (Appsense) Environment Manger configuration that could be used somewhere else. This client has been using Ivanti UWM for years which accumulated large numbers of shortcuts creation actions, mapping actions and printer creation actions. The customer also…
Hosting Adobe Acrobat DC on Citrix Non-persistent RDSH with FSLogix App Masking | A Walk-through
Environment Windows RDSH or VDI (non-persistant) Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (Any version) FSLogix App Masking Ivanti Environment Manager (or any equivalent solution) Citrix Provisioning Services (or any equivalent solution) Adobe Acrobat Pro DC – Named User License Adobe Acrobat Reader Introduction It is common in many organisations to have a situation where a small…
ControlUp ALT: Applications Load without visible User Interface
Applications do not show a visible window (GUI), however, the process is loaded prematurely in the background and is visible in Task Manager I have been recently looking at an issue for my client where users would report that some applications are not loading in their Citrix Published Desktop (Windows 2016 Server based). The Environment…
Citrix VDA: The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed
The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed If you get this error for non-persistent RDSH/VDI provisioned using PVS, it could well be that there is a conflict in managing “machine account password” on your computer objects in AD between PVS and Netlogon. Machine account password for non-persistent machines provisioned with PVS…
Citrix PVS: Version disk file timestamp is inconsistent with that in manifest file
Version disk file timestamp is inconsistent with that in manifest file cannot add vdisk Scenario You have two Citrix PVS Farms, let’s say Farm A and Farm B. Each farm has a single site. Vdisk updates take place in Farm A then get copied across to Farm B You have created new vdisk version(s) in…
Google Chrome 71 / 72 Trail Dragging Issue when Maximized on Windows 7 2008 R2
I have been working recently on an issue for one of my clients whereby after updating to Chrome 71.0.3578 (and also in 72.0.3626) a display issue started to occur when Chrome is maximized; Any foreground window over Chrome leaves “trails” of itself over Chrome Window. If Chrome gets the focus again, the trails disappear. The…
Get and Enumerate Certificate Chains Remotely Using PowerShell
In responding to the Certificate Trust Issue when using SSL relay with Citrix XML Service, I wrote a function that can get all the certificates in the certificate path (chain), and provide a better view of different attributes which makes reporting and comparing much easier. The Function would use Authority Key Identifier and the Subject Key…
Certificate Trust Issue when using SSL relay with Citrix XML Service
Waking up to a P1 incident! Users are not able to see any icons after they authenticate to Citrix Store Front/Web Interface. Enumeration is failing. The environment Citrix StoreFront/Web Interface hosted on Windows 2008 R2 Zone Data Collectors of XenApp 6.5 Farm hosted on Windows 2008 R2 Servers. Each ZDC has an issued certificate which is…
Disable/Enable Scheduled tasks using Powershell and COMObject
While working on a project for a client where many of the Windows Systems are 2008R2 with PowerShell 3.0 or lower, there was a need to automate disabling scheduled tasks to ensure consistency across the XenApp/XenDesktop estate. This is something that can be done easily in PowerShell 4.0+ using Get-scheduledTask cmdlet. But in PowerShall 3.0…
Appsense Personalization Logoff Actions Not Being Triggered
Summary I have worked recently on a really odd issue with Appsense personalization where the entire logoff actions node of the Environment Manager configuration won’t get triggered. Environment Windows 2008R2/2016 RDSH and Windows 7/10 EM 10.1 (FR3) and EM 8.6 Citrix XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR CU1. Problem When a user logs off their session, Logoff actions…
Automating Process Monitor Captures on Remote Machines Using PowerShell
Automated Process Monitor Captures on Remote Machines Using PowerShell