Check for Citrix Worker Connection Failures with PowerShell

by Stan Czerno February 4, 2023 09:02 CST
In my environment we use Smart Cards to logon and this causes a lot of False Positives in Director. The reason for the False Positives is because people are easily distracted, they are prompted for their Smart Card at the Desktop or Published App Logon and their connection usually times out before the user enters their PIN, not to mention if they do not open the ICA file when using a browser. We do not use FAS so there are tons of Connection Failures in Director in the morning and sometimes you miss when there are legitimate issues. [More]

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Catergories: Citrix | XenApp | XenDesktop | Powershell

PowerShell script to Monitor and Log Citrix ICA and ICA RTT Latency for a single user

by Stan Czerno August 14, 2021 13:55 CST
I had a Remote user complain that their Session was slow and unresponsive a few times in the last week. The user was connected to the Internet using Xfinity 5G so Latency was the first thing that I thought of. Her session was currently behaving, so I needed to log her latency to review when/if the issue occurred again. Since I do not run a Citrix ADM appliance, I wrote a script to record the user's latency to a CSV file so I could review it later. I ran it every morning for a week. [More]

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Catergories: Citrix | XenApp | XenDesktop | Powershell

Powershell Script to launch one or more Published Applications from Citrix StoreFront 1912 CU1 (1912.0.1000)

by Stan Czerno September 26, 2020 09:53 CST
I have updated my script for testing "Direct to Citrix Storefront" or "Citrix Gateway to Storefront" to work with Citrix StoreFront 1912 CU1 (1912.0.1000). The script attempts to closely resemble what an actual user would do to launch an Application or Desktop via Storefront. [More]

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Catergories: Citrix | Receiver | Storefront | XenApp | XenDesktop | Powershell

Outlook 2016 / 2019 Prompts for Password after initial setup and connection to On-Premise Exchange 2016 Server

by Stan Czerno October 20, 2019 03:57 CST
I rebuilt my Windows 10 VM Image for XenDesktop and was testing it. I ran Outlook 2019, which configured successfully, opened my mailbox, etc. I logged off, did some tweaking to the image and logged in again.

When I launched Outlook it was prompting me for a password. [More]

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Catergories: XenDesktop | Exchange Server

Powershell Script to monitor Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x Health

by Stan Czerno October 11, 2019 10:07 CST
Like my previous script for monitoring a XenApp 6.5 Farm, this script is based on the scripts written by David Ott and Jason Poyner. I decided to add to these foundations and make it something that can be used throughout the day.

I created this as an easy way for Citrix Admins and others Admins and/or Users to get a quick look of the current XenDesktop and XenApp usage as well as the basic health of the XenApp Servers, Sessions, Latency, etc. I use it as an augment to Citrix Director. [More]

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Catergories: Citrix | XenApp | XenDesktop | Powershell

XenDesktop 7.x VDA on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 will not launch session

by Stan Czerno December 17, 2017 02:36 CST
I recently stood up a few Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 VMs for use with XenDesktop 7.x. The VDA setup went fine, the VM registered fine, but the connection would fail. A quick look in the messages log showed that the CDM Redirector could not start. [More]

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Catergories: Citrix | XenDesktop