Application and Desktop Virtualization
Citrix Federated Authentication Service (FAS) is one of the most highly underrated features of the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop suite. FAS offers you modern authentication methods to your Citrix environment doesn't matter if it is operated on-premises or running in the cloud. Citrix FAS is available since the XenApp/XenDesktop 7.9 release back in June... Continue Reading →
When doing unattended installation of the Citrix Delivery Controller take care when you are planning to move to the latest 1912 LTSR release which was released before Christmas. After changing the installation sources from the previous Current Release (1909) the installation process was broken. To be more specific the site database could not be created... Continue Reading →
Beacons in Citrix StoreFront are being used to detect if the user is trying to access the store from a local or public network. When doing Virtual App and Desktops implementations I like to configure a single FQDN setup for the Citrix Gatway and the StoreFront URL (Example: https://citrix.company.com). With this URL the end users... Continue Reading →
If you are having problems with launching RDP connections which are tunneled over a Citrix Gateway please be aware there is a known issue when working with iOS devices. I was able to launch the session but immediately received the following error code: After reading through the release notes I found out this is already... Continue Reading →
During a cleanup task in my lab environment I deleted an OU in Active Directory which contained a security group that has been assigned to the "Full Access" permission in Citrix Environment Management. When I tried connecting to the WEM infrastructure server I received the following error message: "You are not registered as a Workspace Environment... Continue Reading →
The people who are following me on Twitter might have noticed that I am playing around with OSDBuilder lately. What is OSDBuilder? It is a PowerShell module from David Segura which allows you to do apply several customizations to a Windows OS image. Before I was using OSDBuilder there always have been the same repeating... Continue Reading →
I thought the imaging of a vDisk via Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and BIS-F is a no-brainer. Unfortunately I was wrong and spend some hours until I got a fully automated setup . So when is the right moment to start BIS-F and seal the image? We can not tigger it during the task sequence otherwise the... Continue Reading →
- Guest Blog from my colleague Steffen Buck (@buck_steffen) With this blogpost I will tell you the story about fuzzy images within a Citrix XenApp environment. Julian and I worked together in a customer project. The customer has a bunch of branch offices with different bandwidths. In the headquarter and in the most branch offices,... Continue Reading →
I wanted to write about automating a Citrix Hypervisor aka XenServer installation for a long time but never had the time to put all the information together. If you are looking for a guide how to silent install a XenServer with the latest updates and NVIDIA vGPU driver you came to the right place. This... Continue Reading →
