If you have a Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.x environment and enabled the legal notice and you are seeing the legal notice being displayed in a window with scrollbars here’s the solution.
On the XenApp/XenDesktop machines add these registry keys: Continue reading “Citrix and Server 2012 legal notice scrollbar”
When you want to install the bare essentials of the XenDesktop/XenApp 7.6 Virtual Desktop Agent you can use the command line switch /EXLCUDE to install only the bare minimum of the VDA agent.
The following KB article lists the 4 components which can be excluded using the XenDesktopVDASetup.exe /EXCLUDE command.
Continue reading “XenDesktop/XenApp 7.6 VDA agent exclude options”
Ever wanted to disable certain client drives in your XenApp or XenDesktop environment?
Here’s a good way to disable certain client drive mappings through either the registry or the Web Interface.
Disabling Specific Client Drive Mappings at the registry
Citrix has released 1 update (X86 and X64) called Update 4 for XenDesktop 5.6 Controller side.
Installing, Uninstalling, Upgrading
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Server/Site Administration Continue reading “Hotfixes Update 4 for Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 Controller”
Citrix Project Accelerator is the new version of the Citrix Desktop Transformation Accelerator.
Project Accelerator is a FREE, interactive XenDesktop assessment, design and deployment tool from the experts. Based on the industry-proven Desktop Transformation Model and real-world XenDesktop projects, it simplifies your desktop virtualization planning and installation with tools, decision checklists, best practices, peer benchmarks, documentation and how-to videos – all organized in a no-nonsense, step-by-step way. Perfect for IT managers, architects and administrators who are preparing to install XenDesktop, the Desktop Transformation Accelerator ensures you get value quickly from your XenDesktop purchase.
Visit this website for more information about this new project.
The USB redirection feature of Citrix XenDesktop allows a user to redirect USB devices on the client to their XenDesktop Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA).
A weakness has been identified in the Citrix XenDesktop VDA implementation of USB redirection that could result in changes to the server-side policy controlling USB redirection not being propagated to the VDA. This could allow an authenticated user to gain access to their USB devices in contravention of the updated administrator-defined policy.
This issue affects all versions of Citrix XenDesktop Virtual Desktop Agent 5.x, up to and including version 5.6.
This vulnerability has been assigned the following CVE number:
• CVE-2012-6314
Mitigating Factors
Only customers that have modified server-side policy to disable USB redirection are affected by this weakness.
What Customers Should Do
A new version of the VDA has been released to address this issue. Citrix recommends that affected customers upgrade to this version of the VDA, which can be downloaded from the following locations.
In previous releases of XenApp, a registry flag called DefaultPrnFlags was used to modify advanced printing options. It was a single DWORD in which a particular hexadecimal value was set if an option was turned on. If two or more options were desired, the corresponding values were added together and the resultant value was stored in the registry. DefaultPrnFlags has been removed in XenApp 6.0, but the functionality it supported is still available for both XenApp and XenDesktop environments.
One of the features introduced in XenApp 6.x and XenDesktop 5.x is Active Directory integration for policies. There are many new settings that can be configured using these policy objects. Most of the functionality previously provided with DefaultPrnFlags can now be set using these policy settings. Refer to documentation on policy configuration for more information about configuring these policy settings. Continue reading “Advanced Printing Configuration in XenApp 6.x and XenDesktop 5.x”
As per article CTX131239 XenServer 6.1 does not yet support all XenDesktop versions and Provisioning Services versions.
Continue reading “XenDesktop not yet supported on XenServer 6.1”
Citrix has released an update on the cool tool XenDesktop site checker.
The XenDesktop site checker uses the XenDesktop Powershell SDK to enumerate XenDesktop 5 site brokers, services, hosts, assignments, catalogs, and provisioning tasks and schemes. It checks whether or not services are running and service instances are registered, and provides the ability to enable logging for each service. It also provides advanced management tasks that aren’t available in Desktop Studio, and provides detailed information about each component that it checks, and logs any script that is executed by the tool.
New Features in this release
Citrix has released today the Tech Preview of the new XenDesktop/XenApp version.
Project (Avalon) Excalibur Technology Preview is our next-generation, unified desktop and app virtualization technology that is reinventing the delivery of Windows apps and desktops for mobility in the cloud-era. The availability of this tech preview will allow Citrix customers and partners to have a first-hand look at a new unified FlexCast infrastructure combining VDI and Hosted Shared desktops and apps from a single platform.
New features include: