My 6 year old Son excitedly told me today at lunch time that today was, in fact, Bring Your Child to Work Day. Last year he found out too late and didn’t get to come, so this year he was quite excited to join me for my afternoon. After informing my […]
In late February and early March we experienced “All the Citrix XML Services configured for farm failed to respond to this XML Service transaction.” As virtual desktops have grown increasingly important in our organization, this failure was critical to resolve quickly. Unfortunately, the first time it happened, reboots of the delivery […]
We use XenDesktop 7 and Atlantis ILIO Diskless for our VDI environment. ILIO functions as a storage device. The ILIO VM should occasionally be rebooted per the documentation, or the datastore can fill over time. The script below is what we use to reboot our VMs daily, and the ILIO […]
Update 5/16/2017: Thanks to tabularasa for some improvements to this, fixing some missing slashes among other things! In years past, logon scripts were the bane of many logon experiences due to their synchronous nature. Beginning with Windows 7, logon scripts can be processed asynchronously. We glossed over this fact: “Nice […]
Citrix Director is great for showing you trends for logon performance, but you can’t yet “drill down” to determine which user specifically had the long log on duration. Luckily enough, the SQL database does have this information. The query below will show you all logons from the current day and sort […]
My previous post outlined some of the challenges we faced during our first few weeks on XenDesktop 7 with Atlantis ILIO backing it. We still have challenges to work out (such as how to deliver multiple, simultaneous sessions that do NOT roam from workstation to workstation) but the environment itself […]
To say that I’ve been busy the past few weeks is a bit of an understatement. I am relieved and proud to say that as of today we had 193 desktops of 861 in use. We survived a log on / log off of 50 users at once and things […]
The XenDesktop 7 Setup docs clearly specifies that Director and other components can be installed on the same machine, but for redundancy and scaling you can split them up as needed. As our environment has 2 delivery controllers, I wanted to setup a load balancing server, but when I attempted […]
Our deployment includes Windows Embedded and Windows ThinPC clients that use the Citrix Desktop Lock to connect to our XenDesktop environment. The Citrix Desktop Lock requires a services site, otherwise known as legacy support in Storefront. In XenDesktop 5.6, this worked well and we connected to our internal site via […]
As we launch into our XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 to XenDesktop 7 upgrade project, a rather precarious situation has arisen. The environment is laid out as follows: 2 XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 DDC 2 Web Interface 2 Microsoft SQL Servers 2 Provisioning Services 6.1 servers 2 XenApp 6.5 application hosts (no desktops) […]
