Daniel Ruiz

XenApp, XenDesktop

Hide Client Drive mappings for ICA sessions

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April 11, 2013

Client Drive mappings is a great feature of XenApp / XenDesktop, although this presents a security concern depending on the environment, it is sometimes necessary to allow local file access for your XenApp and/or XenDesktop as part of the work flow. While assisting an old coworker at my last company, he was…
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PVS, XenApp

PVS Gold image WMI issues fix

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CyberRuiz

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April 8, 2013

As part of a PVS image issue discovery project, I was able to determine that WMI was not working on several gold images which was causing several memory leaks, as well as event viewer complaining just about every 30 seconds. Problems escalated whenXenApp hosts would completely run our of virtual memory which would end up affecting the overall user experience. Environment:…
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PVS

PVS Gold image Admin shares fix

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April 8, 2013

I was recently working on some PVS image issues where the Admin shares stopped working. If that does not ring a bell, you access them like \\hostname\c$. This was crucial for us for several reasons including utilizing AV scans as well as monitoring solutions such as ControlUP which is a great utility for monitoring…
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EdgeSight

EdgeSight 5.4 Error – Unable to cast object of type ’ProfileCommon’ to type ‘ProfileCommon’

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March 12, 2013

Issue: The EdgeSight 5.4 Console displays the following error message after entering user credentials: “Server Error in ‘/edgesight’ Application. Unable to cast object of type ’ProfileCommon’ to type ‘ProfileCommon’. Environment: Windows 2008 R2 Citrix XenApp 6.5 / Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Citrix EdgeSight 5.4 Cause: According to Citrix support the issue occurs on…
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Access Gateway, NetScaler

NetScaler AGEE 9.3 – Customize logon page via NetScaler rewrite policies

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March 11, 2013

While working on a new project at a new company, we made the decision of utilizing the Access Gateway on the NetScaler to host a new client’s site as the XenApp entry point. Although it is clear on the benefits that AGEE brings, we can agree that it also brings…
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