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It is very common especially in the banking, insurance and government sectors to find numerous legacy applications still needing older Internet Explorer versions. Typical example is certain modules of core banking software. This is even more painful when some of the organizations try to rollout out "BYOD" programs and there are MacOS users in the… Continue reading Running IE 6, IE 7 and IE 8 on MacOS at the same time using VMware Fusion!
Introduction One of my customers asked me about migrating Horizon linked clones (with persistent disks) from one Nutanix cluster to another. Traditional way of doing this is to detach the persistent disks and then recreate the persistent desktops as documented below. https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2086416 But if the requirement is to have minimum downtime and to minimize touching… Continue reading Migrating Desktops with Persistent disks to new VMware Cluster and Desktop Pool
There has not been a single week at VMware so far that I have not been asked to clarify vSphere for Desktop licensing. Last week, two of Singapore’s biggest FSI customers contacted me on exactly this. I thought it will be a good idea to document some of the clarifications that was needed. Introduction vSphere… Continue reading Simplifying(hopefully) vSphere for Desktop licensing
One of the features of Horizon 7 is the ability to redirect USB and Client Drives as Read-only. This is extremely useful for customers who are security conscious and do not want users to modify files on drives or usb devices connected to the endpoint devices from their virtual desktops. A good example is a… Continue reading READONLY USB and Client Drive Redirection in Horizon 7
Recently I had a high profile customer having a terrible connection experience launching ICA sessions. I checked the usual suspects like connection timeouts, disabling session reliability, checking for NAT settings and so on. No improvement. However one thing I observed was launching the ICA session from within the same desktop network did not exhibit this behavior.… Continue reading Launching an ICA session takes forever – Stuck at Connecting
On my recently completed project, I spent quite a bit of time debugging Storefront as I missed seemingly irrelevant but important practices. I also burnt my fingers few times because I failed to fully understand the basic principles of a redundant and fault tolerant Storefront implementation from a design perspective. The following are the 3… Continue reading Citrix StoreFront – Few good things
Installing XenApp throws Error 1603 and breaks the installation midway. The Citrix website points to http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX132117 but I strongly suggest check for the following before doing that. If you are installing XenApp 6.5 on Windows 2008 Server R2, please ensure that the following services are turned on. RPC Baseline Filtering COM related Services Baseline Filtering… Continue reading XenApp installation throws 603 Error Message
Introduction: You might encounter BSOD while streaming PVS targets when using some combination of hardware and software under certain circumstances. This usually occurs when the BNIstack driver fails to work correctly with the Ethernet driver causing Windows kernel to crash resulting BSOD. The infrastructure used for this exercise: PVS version: Provisioning Services 6.1, Hypervisor: XenServer… Continue reading Suggestions to avoid Blue Screen of Death while configuring Provisioning Services
Though this topic is covered at many places, I couldn’t locate one that was direct, simple and concise. Hence writing this on my own. Backing up On the Web Interface Server, stop the IIS Server. On the command line of the Web Interface server type “iisreset /stop” Create a backup of the site folder. For… Continue reading Backing up and restoring Citrix Web Interface 5.x
Intention: This article intends to be simple, clear, concise and accurate. I encourage you to read further after this. Google is your friend. This is targeted at an audience with little or no knowledge whatsoever about internet security infrastructure but is stuck in a sorry state of dealing with keytool and digital certificates. Hope this… Continue reading Keytool for Dummies
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