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…
We all know, Citrix initially was into provisioning apps and desktops to users. They came up with Citrix Cloud services where Citrix manages the admin part and you manage the VDI part (mostly). Now they came up with another service where you can host the VDIs on Microsoft Azure and Citrix will help to manage…
Here are list of some of the powershell 7 features: Pipeline parallelization with ForEach-Object -Parallel New operators: Ternary operator: a ? b : c Pipeline chain operators: || and && Null conditional operators: ?? and ??= A simplified and dynamic error view and Get-Error cmdlet for easier investigation of errors A compatibility layer that enables users to import modules in an implicit Windows PowerShell session…
We may end up in a situation where we have delivery group with multiple servers (Let’s say 10 ) out of which application owners need to publish an application from only given set of servers ( Let’s say 5 ) from those servers. This is how the process goes: Follow below process to publish application…
Issue: VDI appears as not registered in studio console. Event Viewer shows 1017 error: The citrix desktop service failed to register with any controller. The service will try registering again approximately X seconds. Troubleshooting: Run Citrix Health Assistant tool. This will identify any errors with registration and domain memberships etc.. Make sure you use the…
Provisioning Services Ports: Source Destination Type Port Details Provisioning Server Provisioning Server UDP 6890– 6909 Inter-server communication Microsoft SQL Server TCP 1433 Communication with Microsoft SQL Server Domain Controller TCP 389 Communication with Active Directory Target Device (PVS outbound Broadcast/DHCPServer UDP 67 / 4011 Optional: Obtaining network boot information in case DHCP options 66 -TFTP Server…
Storefront: For StoreFront, the credentials are verified directly to a Domain Controller. SF then passes the validation over to the DDC to begin resource enumeration (Step 4). Note: StoreFront validates user’s credentials by default on its own. From Storefront 3, we can enable xml service based authentication, When StoreFront is not in the same domain…
We have several options to load balance target devices to vDisks. Under Subnet Affinity, they are None, Best Effort and Fixed. ** If we want to restrict PVS vDisk streaming to only some subnets, where PVS servers are spread across different subnets, we can use subnet affinity feature. Subnet Affinity When assigning the server and NIC combination…
TCP Chimney (sometimes referred to as TCP Offloading) This feature is designed to take processing of the network such as packet segmentation and reassembly processing tasks, from a computer’s CPU to a network adapter that supports TCP Chimney Offload. This has the effect of reducing the workload on the host CPU and moving it to…
Issue: VDI takes long time to login to the session. When connected to the VDI from RDP, user is able to login but it took long time. So, to test this, we had to increase the VDI login time from Citrix. Solution: One the VDI, change/create the registry key: Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\PortICA Value: AutoLogonTimeout Type: DWORD Specify…
If you go to “Netscaler Gateway” and “Monitoring connections” you will see, “Active user sessions” and “ICA Connections”. The former shows users who have authenticated against the gateway, and the latter is those who have an ICA connection open through the gateway. The lists could be different as a user might have timed out on…