Citrix policies with powershell: If you want to create multiple policies with lot of settings, that would be a difficult task for administrators while doing it manually. Studio is not that fast while responding to each setting. So, it would take lot of time and effort in doing it. How about automating policies creation task? […]
Exclude users from citrix policy: Normally when we create a citrix policy, you have option to choose specific citrix/AD entities like shown below: Assignment Name Assignment Description Access Control Applies a policy based on the access control conditions through which a client is connecting. Citrix CloudBridge Applies a policy based on whether or not a […]
XenApp 6.5 has reached end of maintenance and with the end of life date only a few months away, migrating your existing 6.5 environment(s) to XenApp & XenDesktop 7 is highly recommended. This also means moving from the IMA architecture to FMA. In earlier 7.x versions, some 6.5/IMA features were not available, but rest assured, they were added throughout […]
The major difference between the two is the type of desktop. XenApp delivers a one-to-many Windows Server (e.g. Windows Server 2008 or 2012) machine that is shared by many users. XenDesktop delivers a one-to-one Windows desktop machine (e.g. Windows 7 or 10) that is used by a single user. At a high level, this fundamental […]
Symptoms or Error IMA Service fails to start and MFCOM Service is unresponsive in starting state. Event ID: 7024 The Independent Management Architecture service terminated with service-specific error: 2147483649 (0x80000001). – Or – The IMA service terminated with service-specific error: 2147483647 Solution Complete the following steps to resolve the issue: Stop the mfcom.exe service using […]
If you want to change license server name in xenapp 6.5, open server role manager, edit licensing option then update your new license server name, click next and apply, and reboot.
If you are unsure if your license server version is current, you can verify it by comparing your version with the number on the Downloads site. On a license server with the License Administration Console: Start the License Administration Console from the programs menu: Citrix > Management Consoles > License Administration Console. Click Administration and […]
Session initialization No matter how an ICA session is invoked (Program Neighborhood, Web Interface, double-clicking an ICA file, etc.), the ICA client engine (wfica32.exe for Win32 clients) fires up and loads the module.ini file from the root folder of the ICA Client. The module.ini file defines the specific capabilities that the ICA client should or […]
PVS runs on dedicated servers (VM or physical) and is pretty heavy on network io and should be designed properly while MCS needs nothing more than hypervisor snapshots which, by know, we already have. When we are going to implement physical targets for both VDI and RDS we need PVS. MCS integrates on the hypervisor […]
Assigning published applications to users may be a very simple task, but if not managed well, it can end up creating more problems. I have seen customers assigning individual user accounts to the published apps in the Citrix admin console and this can get very problematic as there are danger of assignment inconsistency. Usually, we use Active […]