Photo by Haupes Co. on Unsplash When a new employee joins a company, as part of the onboarding process, the service desk team receives a ticket for VDI assignment for that employee. They route it to the Citrix team for VDI assignment. It is a very small task for the Citrix team which is, pick…
Images by Susanne F, Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay, and my own customization. I have used a few hosting websites like Hpage, wordpress.com, etc.. for a long time. But I wanted to host my website on something free and fast. I thought of using GitHub pages, but converting my WordPress site to Github pages was a very big…
Somewhere down the line, Citrix Admins need to upgrade their Citrix Site from one version to another, Example, from XenDesktop 71.5 LTSR to CVAD 1912 LTSR. For Citrix site upgrade, we have to mount the product ISO in Citrix server and run the setup file. But What about VDIs? Based on your company’s VDA usage,…
As part of citrix VDI life cycle, citrix admins would be tasked to update master images and update machine catalogs based on the same. For PVS update process is completely different. For MCS dynamic VDIs, we already have a GUI option in studio to update machine catalog with updated snapshot. But for MCS static VDIs,…
One of the issues where users might end up in bad mornings is at loading their VDI. If their UPM profile is huge, it takes long time for them to login. In case if we end up a user with long logon time issues, we will first have a look at user’s citrix UPM profile….
As part of day to day tasks, one of the major activity for citrix admins is to maintain free VDIs in xendesktop delivery groups. If we dont have registered free VDI machines, and when new users try to connect to VDI, they would get errors like “Cannot start VM”. So, we have to make sure…
Check which application is using a port: Open the command prompt and run netstat -aon | findstr ‘[port_number]’. If the port is being used by any application, then that application’s detail will be shown. The number, which is shown at the last column of the list, is the PID (process ID) of that application. Make note…
Users are getting an ‘Incorrect username and Password’ message while logging on through Storefront. The following messages appear in the event viewer on the Storefront Servers ‘An authentication attempt was made for user: username that resulted in: Failed (Windows Error Code: 1326) Password expiry information was requested but none was returned’ Users confirm that they…
Have you ever tried to backup netscaler configuration and restore? Luckily, Citrix gave us the opportunity to create basic and full backups on netscaler. We can create backups for the software configuration on the netscaler and restore it when needed. In GUI, Goto Netscaler/System/Backup and Restore option. Enter a name for your backup and select…
On a weekend or on a non busy day in your environment, you might see netscaler displaying high cpu (more than 80%) on the hypervisor. If your hypervisor team reports this to you, dont worry. Nothing is wrong. The NetScaler packet processing engine is always “looking for work”, even when there is no work to…
In today’s article, I’d like to share an issue that I’ve faced recently in our Citrix environment. Issue: Users enter their credentials at NetScaler gateway portal and click LogIn. It doesn’t go to the next page where users see applications and desktops. It spins on the same page for more than 3 minutes, and then…
Photo by Sonja Guina on Unsplash Did you start your job as you did not have a choice and not of interest? Are you thinking about changing your career than you are working now? If your answer is yes, then read on… Before we get started, let us remind the quote from Confucius “Choose a…
Following 2 GPOs should be configured for licensing server and license type for RDS. Apply policy: Computer configuration>Windows component>Remote Desktop Services>Remote Desktop Session host>Licensing 1. Use the specified Remote Desktop License Server 2. Set the remote Desktop Licensing mode Also, perform below steps to configure RDSH server: Install Remote Desktop Licensing1) In Server Manager, open…
So far you might have used external Git providers like GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket etc… or Git software programs like Gitea or Gogs etc… But do you know you can also set up a Git Server locally on your PC ? Started to think about it? Let me show you how. Prerequisites: Two Windows PCs…
You might want to test a new Windows OS version before you deploy it on your laptop/desktop. You have software programs like VMware workstation or VirtualBox to create a VM, deploy a VM in it and test the look and feel of the OS. I’ve recently tried to install Windows 10 OS and ended up…
Issue: User clicks on an app in netscaler gateway portal. It shows cannot start app APPNAME for all the apps in the netscaler gateway portal. Troubleshooting: Citrix DDC event viwer shows The citrix broker service failed to broker a connection for user DOMAIN\USERID to resource APPNAME. The virtual machine VDI1.company.com rejected a request to prepare…