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,…
It is really exciting to share something that we know to all the people in the community. I recently started youtube video series on how to install and configure complete virtual apps and desktops (XenDesktop) site. Go through below videos and check them out: Virtual Apps and Desktops (XenDesktop) Basic Definitions: Virtual Apps and Desktops (XenDesktop)…
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…
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…
During a high availability file synchronization operation, a set of files are copied from the primary appliance to the secondary appliance. The high availability setup is synchronized automatically at an interval of one minute or when you manually run the sync ha files command. The secondary appliance initiates the high availability synchronization. The rsync process…
High availability synchronization is the process by which configurations are kept identical between the appliances. It is not the process that runs individual commands on the secondary appliance after successful completion on the primary appliance, that is called Command Propagation and while the two are similar in function, they perform different functions. High availability synchronization…
There may be times when you want to test the SQL server instance first and then purchase a license key after your testing is successful. When you want to apply license key, you have to do it, at least one day before your evaluation time expires. If your expiration date is crossed, your SQL service…
Let’s say you have a script written in PowerShell for your Citrix environment and want to deploy it through Jenkins. How’d you do that? If you directly run a PowerShell script from a Jenkins machine (not Citrix DDC), you will end up in “The caller was not authenticated by the service” error. Through Jenkins, you…