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 the Citrix VDI life cycle, Citrix admins have to update master images and update machine catalogs at some point. For PVS update process is completely different. For MCS dynamic VDIs, we already have a GUI option in the studio to update the machine catalog with the updated snapshot. But for MCS static…
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…
If you’d like to secure xml traffic from storefront to DDC, you should install certificates on the DDC. If you have IIS installed in your DDC server, then mapping the certificate to 443 is very straight forward process. If you do not have IIS installed in your DDC server, then you should install the certificate…
After you upgrade your citrix site, or on a new citrix site creation, when you open director portal, under sessions/logon performance tab for logon duration details it shows “no data is available for the specified time period”. Based on your CVAD version, copy the source files into a folder on your VDA (app servers). Goto…
On a new install of VDA software from CVAD 1912 LTSR CU5 version, when you run the VDA software from AutoSelect.exe file and enter all the details, GUI does not show up showing the installation steps. Behind the scenes, installation never happens. This is observed on different CVAD versions. This is because in the registry…
Issue:After upgrade, when you open the netscaler gateway url, instead of showing the username and password page, it immediately shows a white page. Solution: This is mostly seen when upgrading from 10.5 to 11. From a working netscaler copy the folder, /netscaler/ns_gui/vpn and replace this folder on your current netscaler. Refresh the gateway vip url….
Issue: We have upgraded our netscalers to 13.0 84 version from 12.1. On RfwebUI theme for Citrix gateway VIP URL, the URL opens as expected but when users login, it immediately throws an error on screen “Cannot complete your request” On default theme (black theme), after users enters their credentials and click signin, it says…
Issue: Netscaler ADC 12.1 does not save the configuration. When clicked on the save icon in the browser, it prompts whether you want to save running configuration. Nothing happens when you click yes. From the putty session, when you run “save config” command, it outputs “ERROR:”. No error message is displayed. Solution: Login to your…
Most of the AWS services are region specific. Services like IAM are available global. They are not related to any specific region. In AWS regional services page, you can check the services as per region. AWS Regional Services (amazon.com) AWS Role name can contain alphanumeric characters, or any of the following: _+=,.@- Even though admin…
Let’s look at some of the AWS definitions below. Some of the definitions are from AWS website directly. Availability Zones From AWS website: An Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region. AZs give customers the ability to operate production applications and databases…
Ansible is a cross-platform, agentless, automation tool using which admins can manage remote PCs. You can use Ansible for a lot of tasks like installing software, windows updates, provisioning servers in the cloud, configuration management, and more…. While mostly used for automation, it isn’t restricted to DevOps alone. Using Ansible, you can add all your…
Issue: When you click on a citrix application, ICA file downloads successfully. When clicking on the downloaded ICA file, it says: ” A usable server cannot be found on which to launch the application. Application: APPNAME, Client XXX (address:XXXX), user:XXXX. Check your worker group definitions and load balancing policies to verify appropriate servers are assigned…