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Export And Import Citrix XenDesktop Published Apps

Thu, 02 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In one of my last projects I needed an automated way to migrate published apps from a Citrix XenDesktop test site to a production site. There is no way to do so in Citrix Studio. Additionally the customer has many published apps configured with FTAs, categories and so on. I was sure I would have missed something if I had gone the manual way.

CTXLogging Now With Support For Citrix StoreFront

Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

My PowerShell module to control logging of various Citrix components is now available in version 0.3. With it comes support to control Citrix StoreFront tracing.

If you have to troubleshoot Citrix StoreFront your first stop should be the “Citrix Delivery Services” event log. You will see tons of information there if something goes wrong. But if this is not enough, you can enable StoreFront tracing. This will produce several log files in C:\Program Files\Citrix\Receiver StoreFront\Admin\Trace.

CTXLogging Now With Support For Citrix Receiver

Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

My PowerShell module to control logging of various Citrix components is now available in version 0.2. With it comes support to control Citrix Receiver logging.

Citrix Receiver is not a single piece of software. Instead it consists of multiple components. You are able to control the logging of three components: General, Authentication Manager and SelfService-PlugIn. Logging of all components is disabled by default and is controlled by registry keys. More information is available here: CTX132883.

Community PowerShell Module - CTXLogging

Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

When it comes to troubleshooting the communication between Citrix XenDesktop 7.x VDA and Controller you have to enable the logging of both components. Citrix once had a tool for this, the “Log Enabler Tool”. It seems that Citrix dropped the development on that tool as it is only supported for XenDesktop 5.x. Read about it here and here. Instead you have to edit config files manually - no one should edit config files manually. That is why I wrote the PowerShell module CTXLogging to automate the process.

Automated Shortcut Creation For Locally Installed Apps Via Citrix Receiver

Mon, 14 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

In the good old times we had Citrix PNAgent and with it a dead simple way to customize the start menu of our users with the apps they had access to. Things are changing with StoreFront and XenDesktop 7.x. Receiver still pushes icons of the users’ apps into the start menu. But as apps and desktops can’t share a single session a second session is started when they click on an icon pushed by Receiver. Gladly there is a way to tell Receiver if it is able to find a local application then start this instead of a new Citrix session. To accomplish that you have to

PVS Targets With Multiple IP Addresses

Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Last week I had a problem where Citrix PVS targets got multiple IP addresses, one assigned from DHCP and the other one was the IP address of the master. Find my solution below.

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My setup was: