XenDesktop provides full and partial power management of machines in desktop groups. You can power manage virtual machines not physical ones. The ability to fully or partially control power management depends on how virtual machines in the desktop group are allocated to users or user devices. Permanently allocated machines can only be partially power managed….
VM hosted apps allows you to isolate applications and host them from virtual machines or physical computers, including blade servers, running Windows single-user desktop operating systems. Users access these applications through a Web browser, the Citrix online plug-in, or Citrix Receiver, just as they would applications hosted from XenApp servers running Microsoft Terminal Services. VM…
Note: The below process works only for esx version till 4.X. Not for 5 and 5.X Changing your host’s network name and SSL certificate When you first install ESXi your host will be given a hostname of “localhost” and domain of “localdomain”. You can change this at the console or with the VI client. Using…
There are certain situations in which HDX MediaStream for Flash failsfor certain Website URLs. This happens as a result of certain Web pages that have been designed to work in a way that is not compatible with our HDX architecture. These failures cannot be detected, so HDX has been designed to create and use a…
Symptom Citrix Microsoft Management Console (MMC) based administrative consoles such as Access Management Console, Delivery Services Console take an extended time to start. Once running, the consoles operate normally. Cause Citrix MMC based administrative consoles feature components that are written using the Microsoft .NET Framework. Citrix signs these .NET based components with an Authenticode signature…
Upon first launch of Desktop Studio just after installation you’ll be presented with error message: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object. reload the snap-in to retry.” Solution1: Cause: Because “CitrixConfigurationService” service is NOT running on your system. In the eventvwr you’ll notice that reason why this service failing to startup. The…
The personal vDisk feature in XenDesktop retains the single image management of pooled and streamed desktops while allowing people to install applications and change their desktop settings. Unlike traditional Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments involving pooled desktops, where users lose their customizations and personal applications when the administrator alters the base virtual machine (VM), deployments…
You can use multiple policies to customize XenApp to meet users’ needs based on their job functions, geographic locations, or connection types. For example, for security reasons you may need to place restrictions on user groups who regularly work with highly sensitive data. You can create a policy that requires a high level of encryption…
The Virtual Desktop Agent has to be present on the virtual machines (VMs) to which your users will be connecting. It enables the machines to register with controllers and manages the HDX connection between the machines and the user devices. If you are using XenDesktop or Provisioning services to provision VMs, you need to install…
For desktops to be usable, they must register (that is, establish communication) with the correct controller or with any one of the controllers, if there are more than one. The default operation, whose configuration is briefly described in this topic, uses information in the desktops’ registries to establish communication. This is referred to as registry-based…