Category: Citrix
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MS Teams on Citrix VDA freezes when managing contacts
Since early February multiple posts on Citrix and Microsoft forums report freezes in MS Teams when managing contacts. I myself ran into this issue as well and logged a call with Microsoft, assuming it was an issue with MS Teams.
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Citrix Studio: Cannot connect to vCenter server due to certificate error
If for any reason, you’ve changed the certificate on your vCenter server, existing Hosting connections in Citrix Studio will break.
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Citrix Studio: A machine is not registered, but should be
After a failed upgrade from Citrix VCAD 7.15.3000 to 1912, uninstalling 7.15 and reinstalling 1912, a VDA was rendered useless. I couldn’t start the published desktop or finance applications. It was the only VDA in a Machine Catalog (provisioning manual), showed as registered and added to a dedicated Delivery Group. The Delivery Group showed one…
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Netscaler Device certificate checks fails with W2K12R2 Online responder
For a customer I configured Device certificate check on a Netscaler VPX 11.0.65.72 based on CTX200290 in combination with Windows 2012 R2 Online responder service. The EPA check failed and access was denied
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Netscaler 11 passphrase requirements when importing PKCS12
When importing a PKCS12 certificate bundle on your NetScaler you can run into some cryptic error messages. A known limitation of special characters used for passphrases can be found here.
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Citrix Storefront 2.6: Cannot start Desktop
I configured a Citrix Storefront 2.6 site for a customer and had to make some modifications in the web.config file. I ran into this little nifty tool which has a great GUI interface into the web.config. The tool offers a GUI to ease configuration of the StoreFront 1.2/2.0/2.1/2.5/2.6 “Receiver for Web”.
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Netscaler 10.5 Services down with IIS hosted website with no default document
A customer wanted to publish an internal hosted IIS 7.0 website to the outside world through a Netscaler 10.5. I configured the server, services and Virtual Server objects in the Netscaler interface. So far so good. The IIS server still had to be configured with the website, so till that time the default website showed…
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How to keep your printer drivers in sync at your Xenapp 6.x farm
Although there are a number of methods and tools to maintain print-driver replication amongst Xenapp servers, the main objective is to keep your drivers in sync with your print-server. Setting up a Xenapp farm means that users don’t have the right to add print-drivers. And so even when the most piddling DLL deviates from your…
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High CPU and Disk I/O when mapping Session Printers on W2K8R2 RDS
A client experienced Intermittent High CPU and Increased Disk I/O with SPOOLSV.EXE When Mapping TS User Session Printers on Windows Server 2008 R2 (Provisioned on Citrix Xenserver 6.0.2). A large amount of printers where mapped for each new user session. During the most logon extensive period in the morning the whole environment came to a…
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Reducing Internet Explorer crashes in a RES WM environment
Citrix HDX Mediastream Blacklisting There are certain situations in which HDX MediaStream for Flash fails for certain Website URLs. This happens as a result of certain web pages that have been designed to work in a way that is not compatible with the HDX architecture. These failures cannot be detected, so HDX has been designed…