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,…
Source: Giphy When users complain that they are experiencing slowness in their VDIs, there are some points to check within in citrix. If you have Citrix ADM (Application Delivery Management) installed and configured, you should see users sessions and bandwidth details in ADM. You may see high ICA RTT even though users say that they…
We may end up in a situation where we have delivery group with multiple servers (Let’s say 10 ) out of which application owners need to publish an application from only given set of servers ( Let’s say 5 ) from those servers. This is how the process goes: Follow below process to publish application…
Storefront: For StoreFront, the credentials are verified directly to a Domain Controller. SF then passes the validation over to the DDC to begin resource enumeration (Step 4). Note: StoreFront validates user’s credentials by default on its own. From Storefront 3, we can enable xml service based authentication, When StoreFront is not in the same domain…
It is really a painful task for Citrix admins to deal with users with huge Citrix profiles. When using Citrix UPM or WEM, it creates UPM_Profile folder. All the files/folders in user’s profile are stored in this folder. We can redirect user’s Desktop, Downloads, Documents to a share path but still we might end up…
Disaster Recovery (DR) refers to the set of policies and procedures in place to ensure the continuity and recovery of mission critical systems in the event of a disruptive event such as a power outage, flood, or cyberattack. In other words, how quickly can you get your computers and systems up and running after a…
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)…
With the concept of LTSR, somewhere citrix admins might end up choosing either current release or LTSR versions for their citrix environments. So first of all lets see what is LTSR and CR and decide which one to choose? Current Release: With Current Release latest and greatest updates are available from citrix on the citrix…
To change the XML port in XenDesktop 7.x, complete the following steps: Open command prompt and navigate to cd “c:\Program Files\Citrix\Broker\Service” Type BrokerService.exe /show and press Enter to show the current ports. To change the XML port type, BrokerService.exe -wiport (storefrontport) port and press Enter. For storefront it would be BrokerService.exe -StoreFrontPort PortNumber. The Citrix Broker Service will then automatically stop and start to…
There are two ways on how we can find citrix xendesktop database server name: via powershell: Use command on the delivery controller. This will show your database server, instance name and database name. Using registry: Navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\XDservices\ConfigLoggingSiteSchema\DataStore\Connections” registry key on the delivery controller and check value of key, ConnectionString. This will have same information as above…