With the new 7.x version of XenApp, Citrix made many changes to its infrastructure and to the way it works; hence Packt Publishing, that is the editor of my first book about XenApp, asked me for a new, updated edition: The book consists of four chapters and covers the following topics: [checklist] the new Flexcast Management Architecture (FMA): how…
The Citrix client (Citrix Receiver) running on the user’s PC normally uses the proxy configuration of the system. Sometimes you may need to give the client a different configuration: the configuration must be performed in the Windows registry (indeed no control panel or GUI is available). If the PCs are joined to a Windows domain,…
Readers would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing to organize a giveaway of Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials and 3 lucky winners stand a chance to win e-copies of their new book. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky Winners… Overview: Design a scalable…
Over the past few months, I put all my experience with Citrix XenApp in a book, that has been recently published by Packt Publishing: Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials. I hope this book will be a concrete help for all the system administrators who need to design, implement and optimize a XenApp infrastructure that performs well and can…
If you’re using Citrix Provisioning Services to deploy your XenApp session-host servers, you may run into a problem that didn’t let me sleep last night… After the farm’s nightly reboot, users were no longer able to launch any published applications: in the event viewer of the servers running the Web Interface, it was continuously logged the…
Today I was asked for a script to count the number of active ICA sessions on a XenApp server: the needing was to check if all the servers in our Citrix farm were online and balanced.
If you open Sessions tab in XenApp 6, you’ll probably find sessions in disconnected state for long time; this usually happens if users don’t close their applications and logoff from Citrix: Two user policies exists to change disconnected session timers, but those policies apply only to XenDesktop: If you use XenApp, you need to change a windows registry key on all the…
If you installed XenApp 6, you probably noticed that you’re not allowed to connect via remote desktop to farm’s servers with non administrative users. The error message is: the desktop you’re trying to open is currently unavailable The cause is a default policy for all the users. Open Delivery Services Console and choose Policies node. Change to User tab, choose Unfiltered policy and click Edit… Choose All Settings and, with the…