Terminal Server (Citrix) freeze or hang

A nice collection of articles regarding hanging or unresponsive servers.
Very difficult to troubleshoot and to pinpoint the root cause. Most heard: users cannot connect anymore, Remote Desktop is not working anymore, remote control not possible, server sometimes doesn’t even respond to a PING request, switching off/on is the only way out. «Continue Reading»

‘Freezing’ (Terminal) Servers

At my job at RES Software Support more and more often issues concerning ‘freezing’ servers are reported. It’s always a challenge to get to the rootcause of such an issue. It could be anything, from hardware, a virusscanner or a bad printerdriver. This article references to a few articles (mostly Citrix and Microsoft related) to troubleshoot or solve those annoying freezing server issues. «Continue Reading»

XenApp Target Device Freeze and Gray Screen Issues

A XenApp Target Device appears to have locked up or hung. The Provisioned XenApp server is accessed through the local console; you see a gray blank screen. «Continue Reading»