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Group Policy Settings Reference for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop V1.01
Thanks to Hal Lange, CTP Alum and the #2 WEM expert in the world, we have added the WEM Host Configuration ADMX file. Hal sent me the file and Esther ran it through her PowerShell script to generate t
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Group Policy Settings Reference for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop
March 7, 2017
Five weeks ago, on the same day, I received three emails asking if I had a spreadsheet listing all the Citrix policy settings like Microsoft supplies. I replied I did not and had been asking Citrix f
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Unable to Delete Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.xx Hosting Connection or Resource “There is currently an active background action”
December 31, 2016
A few weeks ago, the town I live in had extremely severe thunderstorms roll through. When the tornado sirens went off and all our mobile devices started screaming “Warning: tornado sighted in yo
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Deploying Printer Drivers for Citrix XenApp
December 22, 2016
Printers and printer drivers aren’t an exiting technology as the latest HDX Features in XenApp 7.12 and so on. But every Citrix admin out there has ran into issues with printers and printer driv
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Implementing Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard Basic Availability Groups for Use in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
September 13, 2016
On a recent project, I needed to set up high availability for the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) databases. The customer wanted to use Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard and I was tasked with
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Citrix Director – How to Make Director the Default Page within IIS
March 15, 2016
On a recent project, I needed to create two Citrix Director servers. One for Citrix XenApp 6.5 and the other for XenApp 7.6. I looked for an article from Citrix on making the Director site the default
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Removing Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos Folders from Navigation Pane
October 30, 2015
For a recent XenApp 7.6 project, the IT Manager wanted no one to access various folders shown in the Navigation pane in Explorer, Save, or SaveAs dialogs. This article shows how I solved this request.
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Removing the Network location from the Navigation Pane
October 30, 2015
On a recent XenApp 7.6 project, the IT Manager was insistent that the Network location be removed from the Navigation pane. The manager wanted no one to see the Network location from Explorer, Save, o
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Internet Explorer 10 and 11 Open to Blank White Screen or Become Unresponsive
October 30, 2015
Yet another plus for being a consultant is running into issues never seen before, searching for a solution, seeing tens of thousands of hits with no solution in sight, and coming up with a solution. I
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Citrix XenApp 7.x on Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 – Setting File Type or Application Associations
October 30, 2015
One of the nice things about being a consultant is that on every project, you run into something you had never seen before or asked to do something no one else has asked you to do before. As a consult
March 10, 2017
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