Articles by 'Kaysel Adrover'

Blog Author - Kaysel Adrover

Kaysel has over 10 years’ experience in systems consulting and Citrix operations management. He implements virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions utilizing Provisioning Virtual Server 5.6 farms, XenDesktop 4.0 and XenDesktop 5; integrates XenApp application farms with VDI on XenServer, ESX, and Hyper-V environments, and configures Web Interface and Citrix Profile Management.

By Kaysel Adrover, Posted in

I like to create blog posts that easily and quickly help others with roadblocks that I’ve encountered while working on projects. I was not able to find a specific article that could show, step-by-step, how to publish a preconfigured Citrix Studio 7.x. Scenario: In a large company, you could have multiple Citrix Sites of different versions and spanning the globe. There are also different groups of administrators that would need access to manage the Citrix Sites. In this post, we will go through the... read more.

  • December 22, 2020

By Kaysel Adrover, Posted in Support

Troubleshooting Issue AppDNA 7.13 When attempting to execute a Direct Import of an MST file, the following error messages occurs. After selecting Continue, it will return to the AppDNA console but the import will not proceed.     Solution Changed the path of the Log File location within the AppDNA settings by selecting Configuration > Files. I changed the Log File Location from %CommonAppData%\AppDNA\appTitude\Logs to C:\Temp. This resolved the issue and I was able to import MST... read more.

  • April 18, 2017

By Kaysel Adrover, Posted in Support

While finishing the installation of the XenDesktop controller while building a XenDesktop 7.12 environment, I ran into the message “This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms.” From there, I could not continue the installation. Researching this issue, I came across a Citrix article applicable to Provisioning Services, CTX1388823 - Provisioning Services Database Unable to Configure, with the same error message. The article refers to Provisioni... read more.

  • April 13, 2017

By Kaysel Adrover, Posted in Support

As part of a high availability implementation for a customer project, I needed to duplicate vDisks from one datacenter to another. This customer had vSphere configured where a cluster represented a datacenter. For testing purposes, I first copied a vDisk and the virtual machine template to the second datacenter. After configuring PVS with the new vDisk, in the new cluster, I launched the PVS wizard to create a new virtual machine using the copied template. However, on boot up, the servers blue screened with... read more.

  • April 13, 2017

By Kaysel Adrover, Posted in Support

During a project building a XenDesktop 7.x environment, the customer requested that I use SQL replication between three servers instead of the SQL Always On feature for high availability. For this particular project, the Citrix environment was not a critical component of the business and the customer only had SQL 2016 Standard licenses. In order to use the database of one of the replicated servers during a failure of the main server, a DNS name would be used when creating the Citrix databases. During this... read more.

  • April 13, 2017