The ranting of an IT Professional:

Citrix


March 21, 2011  9:52 PM

Citrix Health Monitor errors



Posted by: Jason Tramer
and the owner will be the Administrators group., CheckTermSrv.exe, Citrix, CitrixHealthMon, event id 4004, For reference, health Monitor, IMATest.exe, In SDDL, LogonMonitor.dll, Presentation server 4.5, Read and Execute access for the Local Service user account, RequestTicket.exe, Resource Monitor, the expected ACL was O:BAD:AI(A;ID;0x1200a9;;;LS)(A;ID;FA;;;BA). The actual ACL was O:BAD:PAI(A;;FA;;;LS)(A;;FR;;;NS)(A;;FA;;;BA)., The file C:\Program Files\Citrix\HealthMon\Tests\Citrix\RequestTicket.exe does not have the correct permissions., the files placed in the test folder should have inheritable permissions turned on which will result in the file have full control access for the Administrators group

I was working on a Citrix Presentation server 4.5 server recently and after a blue screen and a reboot users were unable to connect to the server for published apps anymore. Resource manager showed the server had maximum load. Event viewer show errors on 4 files: 1. RequestTicket.exe 2....

January 27, 2011  4:42 PM

Citrix reporting very successful Q4



Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix, Q4, Xen, Xenapp, Xendesktop, XenServer

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/27/citrix_q4_2010_numbers/ Looks like Citrix is doing quite well. Particularly with XenDesktop which seems to be eclipsing XenApp (there flagship product) in revenue. Funnily enough all this was before Xen Desktop 5 came out which in my mind was a huge...


January 23, 2011  2:46 PM

XenDesktop 5 – A review



Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix, Desktop Director, Machine Creation Services, VDI, view, vmware, Xen, Xendesktop, XenDesktop 5

So as a consultant who holds both certifications with VMware and Citrix and working for a company which specializes in Virtualization I often find myself being asked, so which is better XenDesktop or View for VDI. The answer of course seems to depend on the time and date you are being asked....


December 23, 2009  8:02 PM

Citrix Client being released for the Blackberry



Posted by: Jason Tramer
Blackberry, Citrix, client, reciever

Check it out: http://crackberry.com/citrix-receiver-arriving-month-blackberry-smartphones All I can say is it's about time. This has been available for the iPhone for quite awhile now. Given that Blackberry tries to position itself for the enterprise workspace you would think this would have...


December 1, 2009  12:52 AM

Xen Desktop 4.0 licensing now boasts fully functional XenApp server



Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix, Desktop, license, licensing, trade, Xen, Xen App

In Xen Desktop 3.0 Enterprise edition you got to use Xen App server. However the Xen App functionality was stripped down so that it would only function within Xen Desktop machines. Citrix has now changed their policy to allow Xen App for Xendesktops to be fully functional meaning you can use it for...


October 9, 2009  9:35 PM

Forms with VBScript do not work with Terminal Services in Outlook



Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix, not working, outlook, Terminal Services, vbscript

Ok so this is a known issue I encountered that I wanted to post about. I found a MS support article with a fix for this. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302003 So in situations where you are running Outlook on a TS(or Citrix) box, VBScript will not work and you will need to apply the fix in...


October 9, 2009  3:27 PM

Citrix unveils Xen Desktop 4.0



Posted by: Jason Tramer
3, 4, Citrix, unveils, Xen Desktop, Xendesktop

You can check this out here: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Virtualization/Citrix-Unveils-XenDesktop-4-Virtualization-Offering-684945/ This is great and awesome and all that, nice job to Citrix for constantly updating their product but can they slow it down a little? I am going to be writing my...


July 7, 2009  8:34 PM

Force Xenapp Uninstall



Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix, force, uninstall, Xenapp

So to uninstall Citrix you have to have the Citrix IMA service running properly. Which of course begs the question of what you do when you are trying to uninstall because the IMA service ISN'T working properly in the first case? Open command prompt, navigate to the directory that has the Xenapp...


June 16, 2009  10:42 PM

Changing userid and password for DSN in Citrix XenApp



Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix, dsmaint, password, userid, Xenapp

If you need to change the userid and password that control the DSN access for Xenapp here is what you  need to do. From command prompt on the citrix server (you will need to do this from each one) dsmaint config /userid:*username* /pwd:*password* /dsn:"C:\program files\citrix\idependent...


June 16, 2009  10:40 PM

Citrix client Auto deploy not working



Posted by: Jason Tramer
Citrix, client auto deploy, Xenapp

I had trouble with this today. Make sure that when you copy the contents of the client folder from the installation media into the Citrix\Webinterface\*version number\clients folder, you keep the exact file structure the same. Also just sopy the contents of the client folder, not the whole folder...