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…
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…
Windows Server 2016 Hangs for Minutes on “Please Wait for The User Profile Service”
Summary I have been working recently on building a new Citrix Xendesktop site, with RDSH being Windows Server 2016 Standard, and Ivanti (Appsense) as a Workspace Manager, and Citrix PVS 7.15 LTSR for image provisioning. In this article, I am discussing a problem we faced with slow logon and logoff time when compared with Out-of-the-Box…
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…
Registration Issues Between Citrix XenDesktop VDA and the Delivery Controllers
“The Citrix Desktop Service cannot connect to the delivery controller” Environment XenDesktop 7.12 Vmware 5.5 Build 4180647 Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Anti Virus: Trend Micro Deep Security (Agentless) Problem VDA is failing to register with any of the DDCs. It is retrieving the correct list of DDCs, go through them and try to register,…