When you try to add a vcenter connection under “Hosting” tab in Studio, you get the below error sometimes: Solution: Open your vcenter server in IE, like, https://vcenterServer.yourcompany.com. You will see certificate error. Click on “Continue to this Website (not recommended). Click on Certificate error in the address bar. Click View certificates and install the…
Azure important points: Use locks on critical resources. Use resource groups to segregate your resources into virtual groups so that they can be managed as a single entity. Create policy to set compliance and rules on your Azure resources. Use Initiatives if you have multiple policies. Even if you have a single policy today, It…
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…
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Here are few recommendations to save money on azure: Reduce costs by eliminating unprovisioned Azure ExpressRoute circuits. Buy reserved instances to save money over pay-as-you-go. Right-size or shutdown underutilized virtual machines. Use Reserved Instance.Choose low-cost locations and regions. Right-size underutilized virtual machines. Deallocate virtual machines in off hours. Delete unused virtual machines. Migrate to PaaS…
We all know, Citrix initially was into provisioning apps and desktops to users. They came up with Citrix Cloud services where Citrix manages the admin part and you manage the VDI part (mostly). Now they came up with another service where you can host the VDIs on Microsoft Azure and Citrix will help to manage…
Here are list of some of the powershell 7 features: Pipeline parallelization with ForEach-Object -Parallel New operators: Ternary operator: a ? b : c Pipeline chain operators: || and && Null conditional operators: ?? and ??= A simplified and dynamic error view and Get-Error cmdlet for easier investigation of errors A compatibility layer that enables users to import modules in an implicit Windows PowerShell session…
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…