Automate Installing SCCM Client for Azure AD Autopilot Devices via Intune and PowerShell
With more and more organizations moving to Modern Management approach to manage their endpoints; there is an increase in adapting and leveraging Endpoint Manager and Autopilot where devices can be shipped directly from manufacturers (OEMs) to users. Typically, the OEM would go about Pre-provisioning (AKA White-Glove) those devices where all essential apps are installed and…
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…
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…
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…
Automating Process Monitor Captures on Remote Machines Using PowerShell
Automated Process Monitor Captures on Remote Machines Using PowerShell
Windows VM get stuck at OOBE Sysprep screen in Azure Cloud
Credit goes to Richard Podd for finding the solution for this – Thanks Rich! Summary Windows VM get stuck at OOBE Sysprep screen in Azure. Boot diagnostics would just show the logon screen as if the OOBE sysprep was successful, RDP would connect but authentication won’t work. Environment Windows 10 Hyper-V for building the VHD…
Using Powershell to Schedule Tag based Reboots for a Delivery Group in XenDesktop 7.12+
The scenario You have multiple delivery groups in your XenDeskop/XenApp 7.12+, and you would like to use Powershell to Schedule Tag based Reboots for a Delivery Group A tag is simply a mark or a label. Assuming you have a delivery group (A) with 20 machines assigned to it. You can label 10 of those…