In Windows Server 2012 and 2016 (and possibly 2019), the smart card service behavior was changed by Microsoft. It is now triggered by the insertion of a smart card. In Windows Server 2008, the smart card service was always on. This can pose challenges in some environments, especially for Citrix / RDS deployments when using […]
Update: Added cli functionality.Update: Added 2nd pass of defrag to fix the profile ballooning issue that sometimes occurs.Update: Added ability to target profiles over “X” size for compactingUpdate 3/31/2020: Fixed a bug that didn’t allow the new tool to run as a scheduled task. Fixed in version 2003.1Update 4/21/2020: Fixed bug that didn’t assign drive […]
It can be usefull to launch certain tasks on the behalf of the user, in the user security context, on a CVAD server. Create the task in the Task Scheduler then export it as XML. Find and replace the “<Principals>” entries with either Interactive Users or Users: Interactive users is the one I use the […]
According to this article, they say ” SAML with Microsoft Azure is only supported if you are using AD FS”. We are not using ADFS in our environment. We are simply using Azure AD Connect to do Password Synchronization into Azure AD from our on-premises Active Directory Domain Services. I figured out a way to […]
I’ve come across a strange configuration in a recent XenApp deployment. I had to implement Folder Redirection on a XenApp server pointing to a local OneDrive folder on the client, shared as a network drive “\\client\onedrive$”. So all I needed to do was to configure the Microsoft Folder Redirection in a GPO right? Wrong. The […]
My client wanted to redirect the personal documents for the published applications in XenApp to the local OneDrive folder on the user’s devices, and if possible, to create a OneDrive folder shortcut in XenApp looking exactly as the local OneDrive client in the file explorer. Mission accomplished. Discover how I have done it in this […]
Tick tock, tick tock. June 30th, 2018 is fast approaching and will be here before we know it. If you are anything like me, you still have plenty of old 2008R2 XenApp 6.5 farms lying around. I’m sure you have seen all the articles like this, this, this, and this. These are great resources on […]
Welcome and congratulations to the Citrix Technology Advocate (CitrixCTA) class of 2017! A great bunch of guys here and I’m privilideged to be part of such a great community. A huge thanks to Stephanie Roper @roperjs for putting everything together! Read about it here.
Environment XenApp 7.6 700+ Delivered (published) Applications 60+ Windows servers (2008 R2 and 2012 R2) Scenario Recently I had a request to replicate 100+ applications from PROD to QA, using QA server configured with identical applications and identical application locations/paths. Obviously all paths to EXE files need to be the same in order for this […]
In our corporate environment I was asked to remove most of the built-in Windows 10 applications from the command line . It works fine , but the Start Menu layout is then filled with missing applcations as shown in the following screenshot : And it will be looking like this for each new user logging-in […]