Locking down published desktop with WEM and GPO

We were tasked with providing a published desktop (CVAD) for users who are not employees but needed access to some of our systems. The VDA’s are located in our data center. The task was to allow the users to access only the apps, file shares and websites that we allowed. They were not allowed to […]

Wrong Resolution after reconnecting to VDI

I’ve noticed an issue when moving from one computer to another and reconnecting to my VDI. Often, when I reconnect to my VDI session from a different computer, the resolution is all wrong. Everything is HUGE and you can’t change the resolution in a Citrix session. I found a way to fix it and it’s […]

Server boots with black screen

I’ve had this issue occasionally with Server 2012R2 targets that boot from a PVS vDisk. Symptom: After making changes to a provisioned vDisk and promoting the vDisk to production, servers will boot but will sit at a black screen. No windows login, no control alt delete. Nothing. Even going through the vcenter console. Nada. […]

Citrix Synergy 2018 – An Insiders Perspective

This year’s Synergy was special for me. I was given the opportunity to participate like never before. My roles this year included: Citrix CTA External Speaker – Lunch Table Tech Chat Leader CUGC – Local Leader, Midwest XL leadership committee, and participant in the CUCG leadership workshop. Citrix Insider CTA This was my first […]

WEM – CPU Logging

I love the ability with Citrix Workspace Environment Manager to be able to set limits on CPU usage for applications. However, WEM does not provide any built-in logs to determine when a CPU Spikes Protection action is taken. It would be nice to know what processes are often limited, so we can then add them […]

So many Citrix versions, what’s new and fixed?

As I prepared to upgrade from 7.6 LTSR to 7.15 LTSR I was curious what the the new changes were to Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop. So rather than go through each doc on Citrix I compiled a list here. This way you can search across all versions for a feature. I thought this would be useful for […]

Citrix is slow? No way…

Great article on configuring your VDA’S for optimal performance. http://rorymon.com/blog/?p=3951 Thanks @rorymon! @Schrameyer

Restart Schedules Stop Working

I had an issue where my scheduled reboots of servers in Delivery groups stopped working. Even stranger, some delivery groups were rebooting at the wrong times. After all users had logged out of a server, the broker service would put the server in maintenance mode and shut it down. It would not power back on. […]

My Favorites this week

Great tools and blogs by some awesome folks. Reboot Scheduler WEM 4.3 Install XenDesktop 7.14 with Windows 10 MCS Google Chrome for IT Admins Synergy 2017 Announcements Storefront and Netscaler Integration Privacy Goes Mainstream XenDesktop 7.14 Known Issues Free PowerShell e-books Rise of the virtual user – what’s new with LoginVSI

Citrix Synergy 2017 – Recap

What a great Synergy! There were some fantastic topics. Really liked the roundtable discussions and the fireside chats – found them very valuable. Enjoy the opportunity to sit and chat with really smart folks and share ideas. Regarding sessions and labs my favorites were: LAB609 – Deploying Workspace Environment Management for XenApp and XenDesktop LAB611 […]