Daniel Ruiz

PVS, XenApp

Windows 2008 R2 / Windows 7 with Citrix PVS – System reserved partition issue

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July 23, 2012

Now that I am done with a new XenApp 6.5 Farm, it is time to set up Citrix Provisioning 6.1 and convert the environment to a PVS managed farm. Unfortunately after booting up a converted Windows 2008 R2 XenApp 6.5 server to a PVS disk with XenCovert, I received a “Please insert…
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XenDesktop

XenDesktop 5.6 Feature Pack 1 – Remote PC feature

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July 20, 2012

I been messing around with XD since the 3.0 days and deployed every version since then in multiple data centers. I was really captivated by it’s capabilities when version 5.0 was released and became totally hooked. XD 5.6 FP1 has some really awesome features, including Remote PC which allows users to…
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Web Interface

Limit users to XD/XA resources in Web Interface 5.4

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July 17, 2012

Let’s take a look at how we can limit access to multiple Farms via Citrix Web Interface 5.4 In the example below… I will be configuring a Web Interface Services Site (PNAgent) in preparation to allow mobile users access to XenApp/XenDesktop via mobile devices such as the iPad, iPhone and…
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XenApp

XenApp 6.5 Published Desktop – Multiple monitors issue

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July 16, 2012

XenApp 6.5 is full of surprises… I am currently considering making a move from concurrent user licenses to device licenses to save a substantial amount of $$$ and to double our user capacity. With this in mind, I started to publish XenApp 6.5 Full Desktops with the Mobility SDK for a cool…
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XenApp

Windows 2008 R2 RDP issue – The Specified Domain Does not Exist…

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July 13, 2012

As a XenApp person, you don’t want to have RDP issues. Well it seems every now and then a Windows 2008 R2 box would display the message “The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.” when attempting to use RDP This reminded me of the Windows 2003 issue I…
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