Category: Troubleshooting
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Citrix/Windows troubleshooting using Microsoft Exchange Server Error Code Look-up tool
This tool is immensely helpful to determine error values from decimal and hexadecimal error codes in Microsoft Windows operating systems. Though Microsoft says that the tool is developed for MS Exchange, this works pretty well for any other deployments which runs Windows operating systems. The link to download the tool is here below http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=985# This…
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Enable Citrix StoreFront tracing
I recently had to install Citrix StoreFront 2.0 for a customer and it kept failing for some unknown reasons. That’s when you need the StoreFront tracing to pinpoint the issue. Open PowerShell in Admin mode And type the below commands Add-PSSnapin Citrix.DeliveryServices.Framework.Commands Set-DSTraceLevel -All -TraceLevel Verbose That’s it. you are all set. the trace files…
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XPERF – All that you would need to troubleshoot slow startups and logon times in Windows
I am going to talk something that I got really excited about as a tool that you must have if you are into IT support. The tool is a Microsoft built tool named XPERF. Xperf is an advanced troubleshooting tool that digs deeper into performance issues than Perfmon ever dreamed of. It is part of…
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Unable to use Netscaler 10.1 GUI – Java issues
Hi Folks, The below is another little trick to get the Netscaler GUI work with Java. Java is known for its quirky software, sometime it is opens a big hole in the network luring all the hackers to have a crack at it and sometime to get it working the way it should, it takes…
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Configure Windows Remote Assistance in Citrix XenApp 6.5 for multi monitor shadowing
Ever wondered how to configure Windows Remote Assistance in Citrix XenApp farm for monitoring users with multiple monitors? I have gone through the official Citrix documentation on this and to say the least it is incomplete and will not get you anywhere near. Here is the Citrix documentation that i am talking about http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX122037 Though…