Daniel Ruiz

PVS

Citrix Provisioning Services DB Offline support

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January 29, 2013

With the introduction of Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 and 6.x, there is a feature that is sometimes overlooked which will allow your Provisioned hosts to remain up in the event that the SQL database is down. Environment: Windows 2008 R2 XenApp 6.5 XenDesktop 5.6 UPM 4.1 PVS 6.1 Issue: The PVS…
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Citrix

Don’t trust everything you read – Too Funny

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January 26, 2013

I first saw this post under Carlo’s Virtualization Blog and thought it was so funny that just had to post it on my blog. The source came from http://processchecker.com/file/CITRIX.exe.html… The point? don’t trust everything you read on the internet 😀
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XenApp, XenDesktop

User Profiles on your Golden image

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January 23, 2013

Following my previous post about user profiles not removed at logoff, I noticed every now and then a temporary user profile will be utilized rather than the roaming/mandatory profile. When connecting with specific accounts, I noticed the following error “You have been logged on with a temporary profile…” Environment: Windows 2008 R2…
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XenApp

XenApp on vSphere – Citrix User Profiles not removed at Logoff

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January 17, 2013

Ran into an interesting scenario with Citrix Profile Manager running on XenApp 6.5 and vSphere, where user profiles were not deleted at log off. Below is how I was able to resolve this particular issue. Environment: Windows 2008 R2 XenApp 6.5 UPM 4.1 vSphere 4.0 Issue: An additional profile is created on…
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NetScaler

NetScaler 10.0 nCore themes – New build 71.6014.e

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January 2, 2013

Traditionally it’s been pretty hard to customize the logon page of NetScaler AGEE. The procedure includes making manual modifications to the pages that are hosted inside the NetScaler directories, then ensuring the changes are retained after a NetScaler reboot. You can read more about NetScaler themes here, and also get a…
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