Articles In Support

By Timothy Karl, Posted in Infrastructure, Support

A common issue I see in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops deployments is users who are unable to print to their local printers from Mac and Linux clients when using Citrix Universal Printer Driver (UPD ). The good news is, it is a very simple fix! Citrix UPD relies on a series of printer drivers to be installed on the VDA machine. When a client printer is mapped into a session, it is automatically mapped to one of these three drivers: The Citrix Universal Printer and Citrix XPS Universal Printer drivers... read more.

• September 06, 2019

By Brian Wagner, Posted in Infrastructure, Support

As IT administrators, we are often asked how we can be more proactive to reduce exposure to issues that may arise. In Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.18, a new feature was introduced to help identify issues from user locations to the Citrix environment hosting the applications and desktops. This feature, Application Probing, has a few requirements, but is not too difficult to set up and can provide immediate value. Application Probing requires the following: Citrix XenApp / XenDesktop 7.18 or newer runni... read more.

• June 28, 2018

By Tom Stanley, Posted in Infrastructure, Support

Part 1: Adding the Timeline Visualization Why a Timeline? One important metric when delivering user desktops is the amount of time the user has to wait for the desktop to launch. It’s hard to ensure user acceptance of the delivered environment if they find it slow before their desktop even becomes available. Various processes run to build up the user environment from many configuration layers, including group policies retrieved from busy domain controllers, policies from desktop delivery software li... read more.

• January 19, 2018

By Hank Smith, Posted in Infrastructure, Security, Support

Throughout my years of IT consulting, patching servers and desktops has been a sore subject with customers. It’s always been something that is required, but in many cases not performed. The benefits of patching in a timely manner include feature enhancements, bug fixes, and of course security updates. But for many of our customers, patching is time-consuming and resource-intensive, and gets in the way of IT teams focusing on more strategic and tactical matters. As a result, patches aren’t maint... read more.

• December 21, 2017

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