NOTE: This only works between like profile versions. eg. You can’t migrate your 2008R2 profiles to Server 2016 and expect it to work. See this chart. I moved from UPM to FSLogix earlier this year, and decided to write my own powershell script to convert the UPM profiles to .vhd. FSLogix has its own conversion […]
Background Using Citrix Profile Management with profile streaming enabled should keep your logon times pretty low. Recently, they updated the version of our Antivirus (Trend Micro) to the latest, and suddenly I started seeing desktops fail with “session prepare failure” errors. After much investigation it had something to do with the behavior monitoring feature of […]
If you have tried to use Windows 10 in XenDesktop with Citrix Profile Management you have probably run into two major issues. The Issues The first issue is the start menu… which is now a database located at %localappdata%\TileDataLayer\Database. At logoff when profile manager tries to copy it off it can’t due to services locking the […]
Have you ever excluded a directory after the fact, and realized that Citrix Profile Manager does not remove the directory from the store? Have you noticed “AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStore” or “AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent” filling up with tons of small files/empty folders – most of which are old as dirt (delaying logon)? Have you pulled out your hair over […]
Like the title says this is for a very specific use case which I have run into, so definitely not for everyone. Background The company I work for plans on switching the user home directories to a DFS path in order to accommodate our cloud DR solution. We currently redirect folders via Citrix policies in […]
I recently ran into an issue where Citrix Profile Manager was not catching all the files from a user installed Office Add-in. I found the path to the files and they were in %localappdata%\Apps\2.0. Even if I specifically added a policy to sync that folder it still did not get every file needed for the […]
Profile Optimization and “How do I speed up login times?” generally go hand-in-hand. These have to be two of the most important and most talked about items when it comes to delivering XenApp desktops. There are lot of different philosophies and strategies with regards to this, and in this article I’ll simply talk about what […]
I’ve been running in my 6/6.5 environment since the beginning with UPM and didn’t even realize that the cookies were not saving properly. Apparently this is a known issue and the fix is simple! You need to add 2 things to your UPM Group Policy object. First, Add “AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies” to the “Folders to Mirror” […]
Orazz from CitrixIRC found a great forum post that really made an impact on our environment. In a nutshell, when using the 2008 R2 Optimization Guide for XenApp and the Citrix Profile Manger, there is a registry setting that causes the UPM to timeout. A lot! After making the changes below, I noticed an immediate […]