I have developped a small app to replace the “Reset Profile” button in Director, that Service Desk agents love so much, to work with FSLogix. The application is a client/server model so the application doesn’t require admin rights to work. With ACLs on the executable only Service Desk and Admins can run it. The application […]
This article will not be purely Citrix related, but I really wanted to share this. I have been tasked over the years to decommission old Active Directory controllers, here and there, and if the de-promotion is usually fairly easy, and other roles migration like DHCP are also pretty much straight forward, the DNS role can […]
When a UPM to FSLogix profile big-bang migration ends up in a total train wreck. Storyline: I have used a migration script, modified from the David Ott script, which you can find on this website, and it works very well. But the script will not detect damaged or bad UPM profiles, and that’s when the […]
Took me a while to get this blog post going. There is a lot of information out there. It took me looking over a bunch of other blogs to get this working. I figured I would write up everything I learned and found in this guide. Thanks to the following references. Aaron Parker, Carl Stalhood, Jason Samuel, and Anton […]
In my current project work, I have been tasked to configure our VDAs (Windows Server 2016) to claim all memory in VMware, and disable all dynamic memory mechanism on the ESXi hosts with 512 GB of memory each. I’m sharing my notes in this blog post for future reference.
Find the notes from the latest Citrix Tech Talks: Under the hood of Citrix Cloud Replay Link Citrix Cloud: new consoles and plans to bring them to on-premWEM: optimizations development still in progressSession Recording: new agent for compliance recording and troubleshooting, available in the ISO.App Layering: with new UI experience, release of 2112 version of […]
The global formula to calculate MCS storage capacity planning, according to the Citrix knowledge base (see Machine Creation Services (MCS) Storage Considerations), is the following: (number of defined storages in selected hosting connection * number of max. expected updates until complete reboot of machine catalogue and 12h wait time * actual image size * number […]
Following the “PrintNightmare” security vulnerability for the Windows Print Spooler Service and the subsequent KB applied by Microsoft, (see KB5005010: Restricting installation of new printer drivers after applying the July 6, 2021 updates), and updates released on August 10, 2021 or later have a default of 1 (enabled) for RestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators. As a consequence, the users get […]
Summary This guide is geared around explaining how Zoom and Citrix work together, and it will show you the Architecture and provide information for what is needed on the clients. There is information added in the document for education purposes as well. At the time of writing this blog, I tested everything on an older […]
Introdution The Citrix WAN optimization policy (or “low bandwidth” policy) aims to compress and reduce the bandwidth used by the ICA protocol by lowering the visual quality for users with slow and unreliable connections. This article will benchmark the best possible configuration for the low bandwidth policy in a Citrix 7.15 LTSR CU3 environment. Testing […]