Daniel Ruiz

XenApp, XenDesktop

XenApp 6.5 Full Desktop – Hide PVS System Tray

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November 11, 2013

While working on a new XenApp 6.5 Deployment with Citrix Provisioning Services, I noticed the Citrix PVS Target Tools icon in the system tray when connecting to a Full Desktop session, this could be confusing or useless information for users. Environment: Windows 2008 R2 Citrix XenApp 6.5 Hotfix Rollup Pack…
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XenApp

XenApp 6.5 Client side flash rendering with Internet Explorer 9

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CyberRuiz

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October 31, 2013

Client side rendering is something that improves the overall user experience when working with XenApp and XenDesktop technologies. However, many folks out there know that client side flash rendering on XenApp/XenDesktop can be a full time job… specially when you introduce Internet Explorer 9 into the environment. The issue below…
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Web Interface, XenApp, XenDesktop

Hide XenApp Full Desktop/XenDesktop icons from WI 5.4 Services site

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September 3, 2013

While working on a new XenApp 6.5 implementation, we decided to deploy “XenApp Full Desktops” (AKA Poor Man’s VDI) with published apps, and XenDesktops all talking to a single XenApp Service Site (AKA PNAgent) -> behind multiple Services Site load balanced by the NetScaler that is 🙂 When you use single…
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StoreFront

StoreFront 2.0 – Customization and Default ISS site

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August 28, 2013

Let me start by saying you should not consider doing an in-place upgrade of StoreFront 1.2 to 2.0. I suggest you start with a new deployment. Although I was able to get the upgrade working as a personal challenge, I don’t think it is a clean way to go about it. You…
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XenApp

XenApp 6.5 AppCenter missing hotfixes

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August 9, 2013

Ran into a problem while creating a XenApp 6.5 report, where some hosts did not show any hotfixes installed in AppCenter. Environment: Windows 2008 R2 Citrix XenApp 6.5 Hotfix Rollup Pack 1 PVS 6.1.16 Fix: Close AppCenter Open command line on the affected hosts (in my case, our XML brokers) Recreate…
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