Following the great article Terminal Server & XenApp Tuning Tips published on this website by Pierre Marmignon, this article defined all tips that I’ve found, test and validate for tuning Windows 2008 R2 and XenApp6.

That's a fact, XenApp is ALSO mainly use to deploy Rich Web Applications and not only for rich client one.

When you deploy such applications, you may not want users to be able to use the published Internet Explorer to surf the web or be able to access other informations.

To do so, many policies exists, but there are also some "hidden" settings, not present in standard policies but only within specific KB.

Having to deal with such cases, I've created a little custom ADM that is managing ...

Another experience from the field ...

Deploying applications on XenApp, You may have faced this kind of issue : an application is working fine within a published Desktop, but is not launching when published seamless.

In many cases (although it can also be related to a seamless issue), this is because the Application needs "explorer.exe" running (which is the case in a published desktop but not within a published application).

To deal with this problem, you can ...

 

During migrations you may have had to upgrade the XenApp client to its latest version.

To do so, it is often better to uninstall the previous clients before installing the new one.

To automate this task I've written two little scripts that are shared through this article.

Be careful when using them and be sure to test them before releasing them to production.

As always this content is provided as is and using it is at your own risks.

This first script has been designed to remove ...

 

Working on a XenApp project where we had to deploy an SAP Module, I had to work on renaming the autocreated client printers to remove spaces and shorten names.

To do so I've written a little vbs script using WMI to access the printers and rename them according to the SAP module requirements.

Note : The main purpose of this article is to explain how to run such a script with a standard user's account (without having to do a runas task requesting an admin account).

Following an article in French found on Doctor Citrix I decided to translate it in English as these settings are not documented as far as I found on the Internet.

The purpose of these settings is to set up a specific NIC for IMA use when You have multi homed XenApp Servers.

Working in SBC environments for some years now I've used some best practices documents like the well known Methodology In a Box (MIAB) from Rick Delingher.

These documents, although really pertinent, are now quite outdated and do not include the latest OS and XenApp releases.

The purpose of this article is an attempt to summarize all Tuning Tips I've found (and also that I'm using) and describe the target operating system / XenApp version(s) they're working for.

Do not hesitate to give us your comments for this Article to be updated with your experience and feedback.

Please note that these informations are provided "as is" and that using these tips is at your own risks.

This "Tech Tip" article is focused on a very useful Security Setting You might want to enable on your Terminal Servers Farms.

By default, Windows allows Users to store their Network and Messaging (Exchange, .Net Passport) Passwords.

The first problem is that these settings are not stored in the User Profile but locally on the Server in an encrypted base.

The Second problem is that you may want Users to be able to save such informations (When Defining Several Outlook Profiles for User convenience for example) ...

You may have encountered this issue while running a Terminal Server or Citrix XenApp Project.

The Symtoms are quite simple to illustrate : Users are facing (random) significant Logon Delays and the logon process is hanging on "Applying Registry Settings".

According to Microsoft, this can occur if most of the following conditions are met ...

When troubleshooting an EdgeSight 5.0 SP1 Issue on XenApp 4.5 HRP03, I got the Following workaround from Citrix (as originally this is a DotNet Framework Issue) to deal with the "Citrix End User Experiencing Monitoring Service" not starting correctly and Generating DCOM errors event ID 10005 and Event ID 7000 : "The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"

To solve this issue ...