Tag: XenDesktop
Notes from the field: The Kerberos chronicles, the one with certificate-based authentication
If you’ve read my previous Kerberos chronicles blogs you see a trend with the Microsoft patches, hardening updates and with this one the upcoming strong mapping / full enforcement mode of certificate-based authentication. See the following article for explanation: KB5014754—Certificate-based authentication changes on Windows domain controllers – Microsoft Support This one is going to have…
Notes from the lab: Citrix StoreFront 2203 and the cannot complete request
A quick blog regarding my Citrix lab upgrade from Citrix Virtual Apps and Dekstops (CVAD) 1912CU4 to 2203 and the little StoreFront snag I hit. Summary of my setup: Two Delivery controllers Two StoreFront servers cohabitating with Director as well Two FAS servers Two WEM servers One unmanaged VDA worker And a Citrix ADC HA…
Notes from the field: XenDesktop RemotePC and Multi Licensing
Recently I got involved at a customer location which was going to use Remote PC catalogs in combination with their XenDesktop / XenApp 7.15 environment. This was no problem whatsoever to configure but on closer testing I encountered a bug that when you create for example a delivery group called “Windows 10 Remote PC” and…
Notes from the lab: Windows Server 2016 black screen when launching any application
I came across an issue in my lab environment where the screen will go black while launching a session on Windows Server 2016. This is with XenApp/XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR The following registry entry: DisableLogonUISuppression (D WORD Value 0) did not resolve the issue as stated in the following articles: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034661/windows-10-update-kb4034661 and https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX225819 Ultimatly after some…
Notes from the field: XenServer 7 mouse alignment MCS/PVS machines and XenServer 7 MCS XenTools
Came across two bugs on a XenServer 7 deployment in combination with XenDesktop/XenApp 7.12 worth sharing: The first is a mouse alignment issue which results in VNC mouse pointer slowness or disalignment of the pointer on a console session in XenServer, the following can check the status of the usb and usb_tablet parameters on the…