Category: XenDesktop 7

• February 17, 2016

  XenApp & XenDesktop 7.x – Logon delay of 20 seconds at ” Please wait for Citrix User Profile Manager”

  If you ever have a situation where your Citrix logons sits on “Please wait for Citrix User Profile Manager” for around 20 – 25 sec, you have come to the right post. I have had this strange one where users started to see their logons taking longer than usual. Below is my setup and your…
• October 20, 2015

  XenApp / XenDesktop 7.x – All the PowerShell cmdlets

  Here is a dump of all that you can do via the PowerShell cmdlets in a XenApp /XenDesktop 7.x world. Note that the below has been taken from a XenApp 7.5 controller so there might be SDK updates in the newer releases. I also have this article here discussing how to perform certain tasks in…
• 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…
• January 21, 2015

  Oracle Discoverer Issue in XenDesktop7 XP VDI – failed to update system registry, please try using REGEDIT

  We have a XenDesktop 7 setup for one of our customers and they wanted to leverage Windows XP VMs to deliver some legacy Oracle apps to the users. One of the notorious ones from that suite was Oracle Discoverer Desktop which started to give an error message when launched by a “standard” (non-privileged) user in Citrix.…