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Citrix Systems, Inc. is a multinational corporation founded in 1989. It provides server and desktop virtualization, networking, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and cloud computing technologies, including Xen open source products. Though not their only product, "Citrix" (as in "Citrix server") is commonly used as a synonym for "Citrix XenApp" - their break-through product, tracing back to 1995.

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Replacing windows extra large cursor file with one that is 30% larger (Server 2008 R2)

Currently have a client that has poor eyesight and needs everything on his screen larger than standard. The issue is when running a Citrix application [Xenapp], the mouse is not scaling properly. ...
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Investigating Citrix app server "slowless"

Currently have a client stating that the 5 users on a 2cpu, 4gb mem app server are experiencing slowness and often, locking up for moments at a clip. Framework is a VM running in vSphere 5.5 [intel ...
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2008 R2 RDS Client Printers Disappearing?

So my issue is something I can find nothing on and is very hard to track down. I am working with Microsoft and Citrix support but am getting nowhere and my client is becoming frustrated on the lack ...
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Single Sign On through Citrix

I have a webserver running Windows 2008 R2 with IIS 7. The server is a member of the domain "mydomain.com". What I am trying to achieve is a SSO connection between the AD users and the web server. The ...
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Nested VM in XenServer

I am new to XenServer. I am having problems getting nested VM to work in my environment. Here is my scenario: I got XenServer 7.6.0 (Free version) running on a bare metal box (SuperServer 1028R-WC1R)....
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Persistent values on non-persistent Windows VDI

I am looking to identify values in the Windows Desktop OS that persist in non-persistent VDI environments, that can be accessed programmatically (I.E. PowerShell). The only value I know (which isn't ...
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Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5 for Citrix XenServer 6.5 installation issues

We are trying to deploy Acronis Backup Advanced for Citrix XenServer on a running pool of XenServer's. The documentation of the product isn't quite clear about the procedure of the installation and ...
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Smart solution for XenServer firewall?

I've been searching for a smart solution for a XenServer firewall for about a month now. The documentation for the new default networking backend "openvswitch" is not that detailed and I can barely ...
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How to increase CPU core speed of a guest to maximum of Citrix Xenserver Host

There is a Citrix XenServer 5.5 (HP ML370 G5, Xeon 2GHz) on this Server there is a Windows Guest (Windows 2008 R2 x64) under Properties I set 4 CPU Cores with max prio. But if I check with CPU-Z the ...
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Xenserver boot error

I'm trying to get Xenserver 5.5 running on a spare computer here, hardware specs: Intel Q6600, 4GB Ram, and Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R motherboard Xenserver itself installs fine onto a 150GB sata hdd, ...
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How do I configure a guest VM's static IP address automatically in Citrix XenServer?

To facilitate automation of guest VM provisioning, how do I set (in a script) the IP address on a guest VM's NIC (or NIC's) once a new VM has booted? Is there a way to "inject" netsh commands via the ...
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DFS share(s) not visible for some Citrix SBC users

In short: Some Citrix SBC servers are experiencing the following problem When logged in to a Citrix server and browsing to a mapped drive (eg. drive D: (mapped as \domain.local\namespace\share)) the ...
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Prevent Server 2012R2 from auto-terminating unresponsive legacy ERP application

Background: FoxPro legacy ERP application on 2012R2 We have a legacy ERP application that we need to keep running for 6 more months. The ERP application was itself written in FoxPro, a discontinued ...
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Citrix XenApp application not able to access Win7 - XPMode shared directory (access denied)

So many different layers, so much "fun" I'm trying to do something I shouldn't be doing, but I don't have any other choice at this point. We have old lab equipment with old software that will not ...
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IIS7, Kerberos, sometimes no response from browser to 401

SharePoint 2010 hosted on IIS7, Kerberos enabled. Clients log on through Citrix on several terminal servers. Kerberos is working on several clients, so SPN's are defined correctly, but on some clients ...
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Under CITRIX, why would a user get the message "your smart card is blocked", when it really isn't?

I have a XenApp 5 farm, running under Win2k8 server. Sometimes a user's session will "hang", and when they attempt to connect to CITRIX after that, they'll see the standard authentication error "your ...
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Citrix XenApp Fundamentals

I have a problem with a new install of a XenApp Citrix server. Everything was working fine, but I was setting up Citrix Access Gateway and single sign in. Now, on the main server I am getting an ...
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Can only create on citrix application session per server

We have 3 Citrix presentation servers. These servers are each hosting an application. We can access the application fine. However, if I access it, I can only open one session of the application on ...
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Citrix web interface with pass-through authentication displays no applications

I have a user who logs into our Citrix web interface with pass-through authentication. When she connects to the web site, it displays a message saying that no published resources can be found, and ...
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Local printing from Citrix, job is paused and sends 128KB on each resume

I have a very strange issue that is affecting non-domain admin users. When a standard user within Citrix (Presentation Server 4.0) attempts to print to a local printer (attached via USB to the local ...
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"A device attached to the system is not functioning" when reconnecting to XenApp 6 session

A few of our XenApp 6 customers are seeing issue sometimes when users move from one workstation to another and try to connect to their running session. An error box pops up with "A device attached to ...
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force a citrix desktop group when logging in from a particular workstation

I'm trying to find a way to force any user that logs into our Citrix XenDesktop environment from a particular workstation/thin client to log directly into a specified Desktop Group rather than be ...
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Citrix server running 3rd party app experiencing SQL timeouts

We are running an app that was not developed in house on several Citrix servers. The users of this application are experiencing intermittent SQL timeouts. The error message: "System.Data.SqlClient....
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Citrix XenDesktop create an image to work across multiple hardware devices

I have created an image using this guide http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX119877. However this only works for virtual and the model that I made the image on how can i extend compatibility to ...
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Remote Desktop and Citrix both intermittently freezing / disconnecting/ reconnecting

We are having an issue that arrives and then goes away by itself each day for the last week. Users accessing via RDP (and this is via the RD Gateway to one of our multiple servers OR just directly ...
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Deploying Citrix ADC CPX to Docker - Container is Up, but Logs Errors

I'm trying to design a container-based network that uses Citrix ADC CPX (formerly Netscaler CPX). At this stage, I'm trying to get it to run locally on Docker Desktop. When I run: docker run -dt -P --...
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Pre-Configuring Firefox for users on a Citrix Desktop Environment

Is there a way to pre-configure firefox with the necessary bookmarks, configurations, and security settings for all users when they open it for the first time? If I could get a detailed guide or a ...
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Detect own RDS Session disconnecting/reconnecting

I would be able to run powershell scripts when users disconnect or reconnect to their RDS/Citrix session. The scripts must run from the session, with user privileges and environment vars. I was ...
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Allow standard user to modify HKCU registry from script

I'm writing a batch script to launch a program for my Citrix environment and I'm running into some issues with a couple of reg keys I'm trying to set in the script. essentially I'm launching an ...
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CPU Fair share Server 2016

We have a Citrix farm running Server 2016. CPU Fair Share is enabled (by default) but still we have examples of a single user claiming 100% CPU when running queries in PowerBI. Shouldn't Fair Share ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Citrix services.exe cpu and high page faults

After last windows updates, we have high cpu load and page faults on services.exe aprox 2% cpu per Session... we deinstalled all windows updates done on this date , but situation is persistant. ...
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The published resource is not available currently. Contact your system administrator for further assistance

What does this error mean? Yesterday, I re-installed the new Citrix Receiver on Windows 10. I was successful launching a Remote Desktop session once in about a dozen tries since yesterday. I've ...
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How to analyze the latencies (application latency and rtt) of various applications in a citrix receiver?

Ntopng can identify the citrix flows but I am not able to see the information about the different applications running inside Citrix receiver. I am using Ntopng on ubuntu 14.04.
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Is there a way to make Citrix ICA files try multiple servers before giving up?

I have a Citrix ICA file that is connecting to a Citrix server. I'm wondering if there is a way to put all the Citrix servers into the ICA file so that the Client tries different servers if it can't ...
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Citrix xenapp server looking to wrong IP address for the lic server after a reboot

Had an application server reboot this morning, after which, instead of pointing to the proper IP address for the license server [which is set through our computer unfiltered policy], it it looking at ...
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Wyse/Thinos Deployment Questions

New to Thinos environment, I have managed to install WDM with IIS ftp deploy a Citrix ICA connection using WNOS.ini config file. This has left me with a few questions about my deployment. I have ...
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Install ossec ids on citrix xenserver dom0

I'm running citrix xen server on a server with two nic each with dedicated public ip and the management interface is directly connected to the www and protected with iptables that allow connections ...
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Xenserver 6.5: kernel panic - noapic parameter is incompatible with Xen

Currently I have a server and I want to install XenServer on it, the problem is that I get a kernel panic during the installation procedure. 'kernel panic - not syncing: the noapic parameter is ...
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Citrix NetScaler sending FIN, ACK for SSL VPN Clients

I realise that it's unlikely anyone here has a definite "Check this box to resolve this" answer, but I'm struggling with this issue and I'm hoping that someone with more knowledge than me can give me ...
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Citrix users cannot add locations to favorites in Explorer

Citrix users (Windows Server 2008R2/XenDesktop 7 Published Desktops) are unable to drag locations to "Favorites" in Explorer. Icon changes to a red "no" symbol. Users have roaming profiles.
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HPOM Java GUI, multiple users connecting to different servers from Citrix sessions on the same server possible?

I have an app (HPOM Java GUI) running on a 2008 R2 Xenapp 6 box that employs client certificates for encrypting connections to the HPOM server. I have 2 different sets of users who will use this app ...
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Apache cloudstack: Cannot add instances using template created from snapshot

I followed this https://github.com/imduffy15/GSoC-2014/ and installed apache cloudstack with basic networking in my local machine, and every thing worked smoothly. ​I can add instances from the built ...
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Unable to publish Citrix Xenapp over Internet (WAN)

I have installed a xenapp server which is working fine in a local environment but when it comes to publish application over WAN it says Could not connect to server however its opening the webpage ...
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Citrix receiver suddenly missing on pc - Win7/Xenapp

I am having a bit of an issue. For some reason, citrix receiver is being uninstalled from my users computers without them doing anything? That is to say, a user is working with a xenapp published ...
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Device aware multifactor authentication with Citrix environment?

There are many services that advertise themselves as providing multifactor authentication for Citrix. But, most seem to require the additional generated passcode every time. Are there any that can ...
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Citrix VDI-In-a-Box Taking "Milestone Snapshots"

We're using Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, with XenServer on the back-end. I noticed in one of my deployed images, either XenServer for VDI in a box is creating snapshots automatically. The snapshots are listed ...
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Can XenApp published browser pass clientname in HTTP Request?

In trying to lock down access to a web application too only users within a XenApp environment. Is it possible to send the clientname in the HTTP payload by customizing something in the XenApp server (...
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Why are my Citrix Web Interfaces giving public IPs to internal clients?

I have a small Citrix farm that's giving out ICA files with public IP addresses to clients that are in our internal network. The public IPs are translated (NAT'd from public IP to the appropriate ...
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Citrix: "The My Knowledge Base will not be available for farm <my farm name>"

I get this error message everytime I do a discovery in Citrix: The My Knowledge Base will not be available for farm <my farm name> Citrix server is run under VMWare and all privileges are ...
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Citrix XenApp qfarm displays no servers, load shows 100

I had a Citrix XenApp 6.5 sever running smoothly in a very simple domain (one DC, one XenApp server) until the XenApp server had to be restarted recently. After it came back, applications can no ...
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