Category: Citrix Storefront

• February 26, 2016

  XenApp & XenDesktop 7.x – Citrix Director Load Balancing using NetScaler

  Here is a quick and easy way to load balance your Citrix Director instances in a XenApp or XenDesktop environment. Below is my environment Citrix Director servers ( Controller servers in most cases) – director-1 and director-2 A NetScaler HA pair ( you can do this on a stand alone NetScaler as well)   Monitors…
• 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…
• March 8, 2015

  Storefront Multi-Site and High Availability – Guidelines for an Active-Active datacenter design

  

  I am currently working on a XenDesktop 7.6 project that is designed to span 2 datacenters, Auckland and Sydney. One of the critical customer requirement is to redirect the user connections to their primary site regardless of their location first and failover to secondary site if the primary site is down. They also have a…
• October 7, 2014

  Issue with “maximizing /restoring” minimized Seamless Citrix Apps – XenApp 6.5

  We have had an issue with published Seamless applications being unable to be restored/maximized after users have minimized them. The issue doesn’t appear to happen all the time but when this happens users were forced to logoff from the server and log back on to get back to working state. The customer environment was XenApp…
• August 5, 2014

  Force Desktops to launch in Full Screen mode – XenApp 7.5/XenDesktop 7.0,7.1 and 7.5

  I have done this so many times before with my previous deployments with just by enabling a simple setting within the Citrix console but not anymore with the latest editions of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. Citrix seems to have taken away that handy little setting from the Delivery Group properties. My environment is based on XenApp…