Why You Shouldn’t Install Citrix Receiver on Citrix XenApp

My highly appreciated colleague Nando pointed me to this article on XenAppBlog where it says:

“The newest Citrix Receiver for Windows 3.0 (13.0.0.6685) requires almost 150% more memory per user than Citrix ICA Client 11.2. So when optimizing you Citrix servers for the highest user density you should consider if you even need some
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Load Sharing Across Zones is the Default in XenApp 6 and higher

And suddenly my colleague Nando looked very surprised, when he discovered that ”…Share load information across zones has been removed from XenApp 6″

More information about this can be found at: CTX125143

Unable to launch Citrix Published app via WebInterface 5.4

Today run into a rare issue, and costs another hour to find the solution.

I needed to test some Citrix Published applications with different screensize, % screensize, Full Screen etc. My thoughts: Let’s do this simple, use the XenApp 6 Delivery console, publish some apps with different ‘Appearance’ settings and kick them off using the
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HP Printers Supported in XenApp Environments

Here’s an updated old and long lasting list of supported HP Printers on Citrix XenApp environments. This list saved me a lot of troubles in the past.

Click here to view the list.

Unable to Reconnect to a Disconnected Desktop Session in Windows 2008

You launch a published desktop and wait for the idle timeout to disconnect the current session. If you launch the published desktop, then instead of reconnecting to the disconnected desktop session a new session is created on a different server.

There is more than one XenApp 5.0 server with load balanced published desktop. There
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Selected Default Session Printer not Retained in Future Sessions

When user selects a session printer to be their default printer, it does not show up as the default printer in subsequent sessions. However, if a printer is mapped within a session and set as default, it does appear as default printer in subsequent sessions.

Cause

If the policy to Disable Default Printers is
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Thomas Koetzing’s 10 printing rules for XenApp

Printing has always been an issue with XenApp or RDS and still is. Therefore Thomas Koetzing has written ”ten printing rules with Citrix XenApp” on his blog.

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HOWTO Customize Microsoft Office 2010 for Streaming Environments

This Citrix article (CTX124565) provides step-by-step instructions for the successful deployment of Microsoft Office 2010 using the Citrix application streaming feature. 

Office 2010 SP1 is not supported at this time.

More Information regarding Application Streaming in general can be found at the resource section.

Citrix Datastore Backup and Recovery

A cool article on XenAppBlog.com, where is shown how to automatically backup and restore your Citrix DataStore Database on SQL Server Express. Click here to read the full article.

Error: ‘Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access them.’

Users logging on to a XenApp Server or XenDesktop are unable to execute files residing on client mapped drives and might receive one of the following error messages:

Error on Citrix Presentation Server 4.5:

“Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access them.”

Error on Citrix XenApp 6.0:

“Windows cannot access \\client\D$\setup.exe

You do not have permission to access \\client\D$\setup.exe. Contact your network administrator to request access.”

Error on Citrix XenDesktop 5.0:

“Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.”

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