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…
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…
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…
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…
Outlook Exchange Cache Mode Vs. Online Mode in RDSH Citrix XenApp 7.6 LTSR environment
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