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….
Tools that I came across in my day to day troubleshooting: Autoruns – shows you what programs are configured to run during system bootup or login, and when you start various built-in Windows applications like Internet Explorer, Explorer and media players. CDFControl – CDFControl utility is an event tracing controller or consumer for capturing CDF trace messages…
Receiver Cleanup Utility: You might want to uninstall existing receiver version and install same version or a newer version of citrix receiver in user’s machine. In this case, you can uninstall citrix receiver directly from add or remove programs but that might leave some registry keys, and folders back. So, it is always recommended to…
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…
As a part of reboot schedule, which is a inbuilt feature of xenapp 7.6, DC would send message to users before the time we set, and then logoff users from the servers and reboot. Recently I came across a task to send message to users and logoff users from a particular delivery group So, I…
I recently came across a task to check all the unregistered vms in xenapp 7.6. I got the infomation and send email manually. I thought of a script which would do the same and wrote this small script: Script: Add-PSSnapin citrix* $smtpServer = “MAILSERVER.TEST.COM” $smtpFrom = “FROM EMAIL ID” $smtpTo = “TO EMAIL ID” $messageSubject…
Small script to enable and disable maintenance mode on xenapp 7.6 environment. Script: Usage: Enable-MaintenanceMode -servername SERVER Disable-MaintenanceMode -servername SERVER
First of all, thank you very much to citrix team for developing such a nice script. Click Here to download the script XenApp 6.5 does not provide a binary upgrade path from XenApp 6.0. For some environments, the ability to create a new virtual machine image or clean installation XenApp 6.5 servers might not be possible….
XenApp administrators often encounter a situation which requires to take the XenApp Server “offline” to be troubleshooted. By “offline”, it means the server should not take any more new sessions while keep the existing session untouched. Usually the administrator will use either the script or AMC to disable the logon of the server so no…