Author: Lal Mohan

• October 18, 2015

  Power Management of XenDesktop 7.x Delivery Groups – Prevent workloads from powering off when not in use

  There are many a times when you would want to prevent XenDesktop/XenApp 7.x power management from powering off virtual machines in the catalog. If you ever wondered how to do it, here are the steps Open the PowerShell in administrative mode on the Controller server asnp citrix* Set-BrokerDesktopGroup “Delivery group Name” -AutomaticPowerOnForAssignedDuringPeak $True if the…
• October 9, 2015

  Citrix License Usage Monitoring using PowerShell

  The below PowerShell script could be used to deliver automated emails on the Citrix License usage for Citrix Admins. Where do you run this script from? Citrix License Server How do you run this? The script could be saved as a file with an extension of .ps1 Also ensure that you have a folder called…
• October 7, 2015

  Citrix XenApp – Long Logon Times and Potential Fixes

  

  Long logon times in Citrix is a dreadful situation to be in as an end-user and as an Administrator and is the no 1 reason people hate Citrix. I have had a similar issue recently for one of my deployments with XenApp 7.5 on Windows Server 2012 R2 workloads. My logon times averaged around 30…
• September 24, 2015

  Filter applications in Storefront or Receiver for Web

  There are times when you want to only show selected applications in Storefront (Receiver for Web). the below is how it can be achieved. Firstly, update the keywords for all the application that you want to be showed in Receiver for Web. For eg, I updated the description field to KEYWORDS:ShowOnly Secondly, logon to Storefront…
• April 23, 2015

  NetScaler – Key Processes and their descriptions

  Hi there, For all the NetScaler newbie’s out there, here is brief table on the most important processes on a NetScaler and their function. I have to thank Citrix themselves for this and the table I have used below is theirs.