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…
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…
Follow the below steps to create a custom block page for blocked sites in pihole for HTTP sites: In terminal, run sudo nano /etc/pihole/pihole-FTL.conf If you do not have this file, create a file with the same name in the same path. If it is already there, you will see PRIVACYLEVEL=0 in the file already….
Issue: The user’s VDI has a client drive redirection policy enabled, and it is set to prohibit drives. From the VDI user is not able to see his laptop’s drives ( C and D etc). This is as per design and working as expected. When this policy is prohibited, by default, the user cannot see…
We’ve seen an issue recently: Users login to netscaler gateway url and click on the application. It shows the steps like connection in progress, loading profile, negotiating capabilities, processing group policies etc, and immediately disappears. Troubleshooting: In Citrix director, under trends, logon performance. Check the logon performance time for the users who had this issue….
Let’s look at steps on configuring a Citrix high available site for applications. These are high level steps only. Not a step by step article. Based on your user count and how critical is the application, create 4 DDCs. Two in North India Datacenter, and two in south India datacenter (or you can create 1…
Photo by Peter Jones on Unsplash Below are some of the documentation practices that I came across. Create documentation as you design and implement something new in the environment. From Owen’s mycugc post, Check if you pass Bus Test. When you write a script add a help section explaining what it does. Similarly, when you…
Issue: When users try to open the application, they get a black rectangle screen instead of the whole application. Cause: The issue could be because of the monitor(s) that users attached to their laptop (or desktop). Ask users to remove all the external monitors and test launch the application on their laptop screen alone. Solution:…