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…
Photo by Oğuzhan Akdoğan on Unsplash In any organization, it is the Citrix team’s responsibility to check the Citrix license usage. We do not have a license usage monitoring and notification feature directly available in all the Citrix versions. This monitoring and reporting feature is available in Citrix Cloud. Citrix Director shows the information but we have…
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…
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…