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…
Issue: VDI appears as not registered in studio console. Event Viewer shows 1017 error: The citrix desktop service failed to register with any controller. The service will try registering again approximately X seconds. Troubleshooting: Run Citrix Health Assistant tool. This will identify any errors with registration and domain memberships etc.. Make sure you use the…
Provisioning Services Ports: Source Destination Type Port Details Provisioning Server Provisioning Server UDP 6890– 6909 Inter-server communication Microsoft SQL Server TCP 1433 Communication with Microsoft SQL Server Domain Controller TCP 389 Communication with Active Directory Target Device (PVS outbound Broadcast/DHCPServer UDP 67 / 4011 Optional: Obtaining network boot information in case DHCP options 66 -TFTP Server…
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…
We have several options to load balance target devices to vDisks. Under Subnet Affinity, they are None, Best Effort and Fixed. ** If we want to restrict PVS vDisk streaming to only some subnets, where PVS servers are spread across different subnets, we can use subnet affinity feature. Subnet Affinity When assigning the server and NIC combination…
TCP Chimney (sometimes referred to as TCP Offloading) This feature is designed to take processing of the network such as packet segmentation and reassembly processing tasks, from a computer’s CPU to a network adapter that supports TCP Chimney Offload. This has the effect of reducing the workload on the host CPU and moving it to…
Issue: VDI takes long time to login to the session. When connected to the VDI from RDP, user is able to login but it took long time. So, to test this, we had to increase the VDI login time from Citrix. Solution: One the VDI, change/create the registry key: Key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Citrix\PortICA Value: AutoLogonTimeout Type: DWORD Specify…
If you go to “Netscaler Gateway” and “Monitoring connections” you will see, “Active user sessions” and “ICA Connections”. The former shows users who have authenticated against the gateway, and the latter is those who have an ICA connection open through the gateway. The lists could be different as a user might have timed out on…
Variable: A variable is a symbolic name associated with a value. In Terraform, “variables” almost always refers to input variables, which are key/value pairs used in a run. Terraform modules can declare variables to allow customization. For child modules, the parent module provides a value when calling the module; for the root module, values are provided at run time. Provider: A…
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…