Category: XenDesktop
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Automatically Load/Unload Excel Addins for specific users – XenApp/XenDesktop
Hello There, Time for another quick write-up. I was asked by one of my customers to enable Excel add ins for a selected bunch of users. These users need access to TM1 and SUN Financial plugins which are a bit slow to load so it doesn’t make sense to have this plugin available to all…
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The curious case of corrupted Citrix UPM managed roaming profiles- Outlook Signature changes aren’t retained
We have had a user complaining that his Outlook signature changes weren’t sticking after he edit the signatures. The issue seems to be only for this user and no one else seem to report this issue within the environment. What the support guys used to do is to perform a profile reset every time the user complaints and…
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Issue with Microsoft Outlook 2013 reconfiguring on every launch – XenDesktop / XenApp
In one of the recent XenDesktop 7 deployments, I was told that Outlook 2013 doesn’t launch well on Server 2012 Hosted Shared Catalogs by one of the end users. Every time Outlook is started, it tries to reconfigure itself as if the Outlook profile isn’t there or it cant find the profile. This caused the…
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A guide to hiding published resources – XenDesktop
Recently while browsing through Citrix blogs, I came across this gem of a blog which discuss methods to restrict/ hide published Desktops and Applications and thought I will share that on my blog for quick and easy access for my future projects. Some good work from Dave Brear from Citrix. http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/05/20/now-you-see-me-now-you-dont-a-guide-to-hiding-published-resources/