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 ...

Looking for Automation of Maintenance tasks, I've had to write a script that'll run as a scheduled task to Purge Log Files, but only logs older than a specified number of days.

Googling to find if that kind of script already exists I've found a nice blog with some example I've used to start.

I've worked on this script to adapt it to my needs and came with two new scripts.

These new scripts have been designed to run as Scheduled Tasks so they're logging everything within the Application EventLog ...

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 with Citrix Provisioning Server, you may have encountered the issue of having a "Found New Hardware" prompt when using Cache on Device Hard Disk.

When provisioning XenApp Servers, this issue's impact is minimized because only Administrators can see the popup.

When it comes to provisioned Desktops, all users are seing the message at every logon, so it's important to find a way to fix it.

Citrix is providing an old Ardence Tool to manage this issue but in somes cases it does not work.

The prompt is related to a new Hard Disk Signature found (actually the Local HD used for cache) and detected as a new hardware by the system.

To detect an Hard Disk, Windows is using a Disk Signature that is stored into the registry. If a new signature is detected, then the prompt is raised.

To overcome this issue, the solution is to ...

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.

Following the Article written by Paul Wilson on the Citrix Community Blog and my Article related to Terminal Server & XenApp Tuning I decided to also write this little article related to XenDesktop Tuning.

Many values were taken from XenApp Tuning because they can also be applied to Windows XP / Vista.

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.

Please also Note that all REG_DWORD values are provided in decimal format.

All Registry Hives are provided for x86 platforms. For x64 Platforms, do not forget to add "WoW6432Node" if hive is in HKLM\Software.

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 Douglas Brown or the MF Tuning Tips 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.

I was recently working on a large migration project in which we had to clean the users profiles.

To ease Users experience, we had to develop a way to avoid the eternal first run Microsoft Office Popup asking for Username, Company and Initials.

As these settings relies on reg values, this could be easy to define them by logon script.

However, as they are hardcoded within reg binaries values, scripting these settings is not as simple as it could have been ...