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Recently I build a XenApp environment on Azure for demo purposes. I used –> this <– website helping me calculating the costs. This website (running on Azure :-)) makes it easy to calculate the costs of your XenApp/XenDesktop environment on Azure. You can provide the locations, working Hours, Workloads and number of users (and their profiles). […]
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Description In complex environments, where distributed applications are deployed across the network utilizing numerous physical servers and workstations, connectivity can be reduced in general and/or per session basis. Connection Quality Indicator is a tool which provides feedback to the user when the network has been impacted to the point that the user’s experience is degraded. […]
CtxPatcher is a tool for downloading (and installing) updates for Citrix products. Just install the tool using next-next-next and enter your MyCitrix account details : Select the products, hit search and all available patches are ready to download. When you download the patches a install script is also created for easy installation: Requirements Windows […]
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Citrix Education has a great offer. At a cost of $600 dollar you get 12 months of education to learn Citrix products. New courses are added at no extra costs. Current courses included in the eLearning Subscription include: CAD-100 Introduction to Citrix AppDNA – English CAD-200 Simplifying Application Migration with Citrix AppDNA 6.1 – English […]
The following registry key must be set for the Outlook Plugin to be enabled : [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\Malone.AddinModule] “LoadBehavior”=dword:00000002 If “LoadBehavior” is set to 2, then it is disabled. If it is set to 3, then it is enabled. […]
After creating the Sharefile accounts and installing the Plugin into the vDisk a customer didn’t saw the Outlook plugin features. This is how to enable them. First open outlook and go to Opties (Dutch languagepack) Select “invoegtoepassingen” Select the sharefile plugin and choose start: After that configure the Plug-in options: Enter your credentials […]
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Sometimes you run into a hung VM on XenServer. This is how to kill the VM running on XenServer : First look up the UUID (in my case 50fa073a- etc) Using the command list_domains you can find the id’s (0, 6, 7, 9 etc) Now use the grep command to find the domain ID you […]
Today a customer requested to upgrade the amount of memory on their XenServers. This is how you easily can determine which memory modules are being used. Ofcourse you can use ILO, but then you only see the size and location but not the specific type of (memory) module : This is how you can identify […]
After my review of Xackup XenServer backup software I received serveral emails and tweets with people asking me if I had ever done a restore test. The answer is : ….. YES! Ofcourse. 🙂 Volledig album bekijken I did several migrations and restores for testing purposes and they all succeedeed. I advise to install […]
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The last couple of days I ran into some problems with restoring VM’s on Xenserver. I started looking for Hypervisor backup software for Xenserver. I took a deep dive into the wonderful world called the Internet and found Xackup from Fungusware. Alright, strange name but let’s take a look at the product itself. I downloaded […]
Today a customer complained that Citrix Discovery wasn’t working : I found that there was some inconsistency in the database. I used the command dscheck to check this : I used the command dscheck /clean to fix this unconsistency. After this discovery was possible again. […]
This is how you request and install (+bind) a SSL certificate for example Citrix Webinterface. Before you start you must now the external DNS name of your webinterface. In this case I use portal.company.nl Test to make sure the webserver is responding and the firewall is configured. You notice a SSL warning/error. Something like this […]
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Some time ago I ran into a problem while opening a application on a Windows DFS share : All the standard solutions, like internet explorer intranet zones etc. didn’t work. After some troubleshooting I found out the following group policy setting fixed my issue : User configuration/administrative templates/windows components/attachment manager Add the extensions (*.exe, […]
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After installing Roll Up Pack 1 for XenApp 6.5 a customer of mine ran into the problem that the 2 services mentioned wouldn’t start. The mfcom service was hanging in a starting fase and the IMA service reported several errors. I found many many people on the internet with the same problem and I would […]
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Some time ago a customer of my couldn’t login to the Citrix Licensing Console anymore. Reinstalling the software wasn’t the option. The default password (admin/admin) didn’t work either. This is how I fixed this issue : Open server.xml file in <Program Files>\Citrix\Licensing\LS\conf Look for the text “user firstName” You find the hashed password, change this […]
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Today a customer ran into an issue with Citrix AppCenter. Although he was logged in as an domain administrator, he still was not able to add a published application. I found the following error in the system log : I’ve checked the dcom rights and they were correct. So I used the following solution : […]
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When you are running Citrix Provisioning Services you might run into this problem after this weekend : “The clocks on the client and server machines are skewed” As a result Group Policy Objects are not applied. This problem appear when daylight savings time goes into effect. Citrix wrote a kb article about it : http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX123336 I […]
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