Update 10/29/19: Added search (username/userfullname) to the Sessions tab. Studio always seems extremely sluggish to me when trying to navigate between different areas. I’m always waiting a few seconds for the refresh circle to go away every single time I navigate somewhere new. Most of the time I just need to put a machine in/out […]
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 […]
PVS Server Memory Sizing Citrix PVS server will use the system memory as a cache for the streaming operation. It is recommended to allocate enough memory to the server to get the best streaming performances by caching the virtual disks into the RAM. I use Sysinternal RAMMap on the PVS servers under load to find the maximum […]
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 […]
When defining the policy “Default Associations Configuration File” with an XML definition file, users are still able to use the “Open with…” command in the context menu and set their own file type association. This is by design. One solution to enforce the FTA at logon is to use the “SetUserFTA” software from Christoph Kolbicz’s Blog. […]
Long story short, this is the script I’ve found and is the most accurate / reliable in my experience when used in recurse mode on Citrix user profiles to get the profiles size:
Remove-Item cannot be used to remove symbolic link to directory as it will remove the content of the directory it points to (so be careful!). To safely remove a symbolic link from the file system using PowerShell, add the following function to your script: From: PowerShell Gallery | Private, LinkUtils Remove-Symlink -Link [path to the symbolic link […]
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 […]
——–UPDATE 3/28/2018 ———- Starting with FSLogix 2.8.12 you no longer need to do this. Great work FSLogix! From their release notes: “• An issue with first time OneDrive installation has been resolved. The issue occurred when OneDrive was installed for the first time, and OneDrive syncing began. The FSLogix agent would not redirect the OneDrive […]