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Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity changing licence group
ProfileUnity by Liquidware Labs is a complete end to end solution for managing profiles and applications and many other aspects of user experience within a desktop or SBC/VDI environment. By default...
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Customising Citrix StoreFront CSS Part 1
There are a good few blogs out there about customising Citrix StoreFront over and above what is offered within the GUI. However I have found most of them show you the steps rather than the method. Now...
View ArticleQuick Fix: Citrix PVS the system is not configured properly
Came across a problem on a single Citrix Provisioning Server (PVS) the other day when trying to access the local PVS console. A message popped up and said “the system is not configured properly”. A...
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Citrix purchase Norskale VUEM
So last week Citrix announced that it has finalised the purchase of Norskale who provide a platform that manage the desktop workspace. Now I must say I’ve not had the chance to look into them much...
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NetScaler VPX and Hyper-V flapping
I came across an interesting issue the other day where we had a HA pair of NetScalers deployed on Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 with SCVMM. The NetScalers were misbehaving randomly showing service groups...
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Droplet Computing
I’ve seen a little bit of the future recently and its platform independent. How many times have you wished that application X was available on another OS. I know it’s a massive bone of contention that...
View ArticleCitrix profile Driver could not be loaded XA/XD 7.11
I recently came across this particular issue when building out a new environment for a customer based upon the now legacy Windows Server 2008 R2 session hosts. When in UAT we discovered that existing...
View ArticleUpdate existing users Windows 8.1/ 2012 start tiles
Microsoft do not provide any method for updating existing users Windows 8.1 or 2012 start tiles, however it can be scripted to a degree. Start tiles live in two files within a profile namely:...
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Quick Tip: Disable XenApp XenDesktop connection leasing
Now XenDesktop and XenApp 7.12 has landed in if you are upgrading your existing site you have a choice to make Connection Leasing or Local Host Cache (LHC). Whether to continue to use Connection...
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VMware View Failed to extend swap file from 0 KB to xxxx KB during an instant...
If you receive an almost immediate error when trying to provision instant clones of Failed to extend swap file from 0 KB to xxxx KB when using VMware Horizon View this can be generally for a couple of...
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Creating Citrix NetScaler failover service groups
You can separate resources within a NetScaler such as a geographically dispersed StoreFront installation and allow the NetScaler to present local service groups to your users normally however if for...
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Citrix App Layering access
So Citrix have updated and rebranded the Unidesk acquisition and have released it under the name Citrix App Layering. To be entitled to use Citrix App Layering you must have a minimum of XenApp...
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Samsung SmartThings IoT quick review
So a little while ago i took the plunge in home automation and initially purchased a Samsung SmartThings starter pack. I had spent some time looking into the options such as WeMo and others but decided...
View ArticleCitrix NetScaler and included Universal CAL
Since the release of Citrix NetScaler 11.1 revision 49 Citrix have thrown in a number of Universal CAL’s into the platform for “free”. I say “free” because you still need to have purchased a NetScaler...
View ArticleReset Windows Server RDS licence grace period
If your running a EUC lab environment it would be handy at times if you could reset the windows server RDS licensing period. Luckily this is possible. It can be quite frustrating when you are testing...
View ArticleAutomating the FSLogix Reporting server install
FSLogix has over the last couple of years become a rather hot topic as is automation. Now while automating the install of the FSLogix agent is straight forward the reporting server takes a little more...
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Windows 10 lock screen time stops updating
When you install the Citrix VDA onto a Windows 10 master image the screen saver capability within the image is disabled. This is by design and a long-standing Citrix workaround to re-enable the screen...
View ArticleOffice 365 activation issues with FSLogix and ADFS
I’ve been involved in troubleshooting some activation issues with Office 2016 Click to Run with Office365 subscriptions recently. The symptoms would include being asked to activate Office at random...
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Citrix Cloud – The missing elements
Let me start by saying that this blog will centre around the XenApp and XenDesktop service within Citrix Cloud. XenApp and XenDesktop service allows you move parts or all of your Citrix control tier...
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SSL No Cipher Match error on Dell Wyse thin clients
I came across this issue with a Dell Wyse thin client on a project recently. the thin clients in use covered several different models but they all had the same issue and the majority were using an up...
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