Category: XenApp
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Grayed Out Disk Cache Size in Citrix MCS – XenApp (Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops)
To all the people out there who had issues when trying to create a machine catalog on versions above 7.9 and wondered why the Disk Cache option is greyed out, here is a potential answer to that issue. This is exactly what I ran into while recreating the catalogs for a customer who wanted to…
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Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktops (WVD) or Citrix – The Big Question answered!
Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktops (WVD) has been making a lot of waves in the EUC industry ever since it was announced by Microsoft in September 2018. Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is a desktop and application virtualization solution that runs from Microsoft Azure. Unlike, Microsoft’s previous foray into the application and desktop virtualization markets in the…
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Desktop Restart – Citrix Storefront Power Management
If you have noticed the Restart button for published desktops in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 LTSR recently and wondered why in the world Citrix would give users access to users to restart machines, you are not alone. Make no mistake, this is a perfectly fine setting to be enabled out-of-the-box for VDI deployments where…
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Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) – Primer For On-Prem Vs Azure
Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) is a compelling technology these days for provisioning virtual machines quickly and easily in Citrix environments. The whole technology is built around simplicity and requires just a supported hypervisor that utilizes snapshots to create additional VMs on the fly. There isn’t much required from a supporting infrastructure point of view…
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Microsoft DirectAccess breaks Citrix/XenApp application launches – Fix
If you have implemented DirectAccess for your users so that they could connect to corporate network whilst they work from home, you might have come across this issue while using Citrix. Users would be able to connect to Storefront portal and authenticate themselves but when they try to launch applications it fail. Users will also…
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