Group Policy Settings Reference for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop

Five weeks ago, on the same day, I received three emails asking if I had a spreadsheet listing all the Citrix policy settings like Microsoft supplies. I replied I did not and had been asking Citrix for such an Excel file since March 2012. Someone pointed me to this Citrix article on Citrix Policy Reference but it has not been updated in three years. It also contains no data for any version of XenApp or XenDesktop 7.x. I reached out to several people at Citrix to see if such a file existed and all promised to get back to me. No one ever responded. So I started my own Excel file based on what little I had from the documentation scripts. There was so much missing information that I reached back out to my Citrix contacts because surely this information is sitting on some developer’s computer somewhere at Citrix. After pestering my Citrix contacts, I, again, never received a single response. I decided to take matters into my own hands and start a community project.

Deploying Printer Drivers for Citrix XenApp

Printers and printer drivers aren’t an exiting technology as the latest HDX Features in XenApp 7.12 and so on. But every Citrix admin out there has ran into issues with printers and printer drivers at one point or another. And we’ve all been felt the same need at least once: how do I get those print drivers out there without breaking everything?

Sure, XenApp 6.5 has had a driver replication feature for a long time, but that isn’t without flaws… So I wanted something different, something where I was in control.

Citrix Director – How to Make Director the Default Page within IIS

Citrix Director – How to Make Director the Default Page within IIS

On a recent project, I needed to create two Citrix Director servers. One for Citrix XenApp 6.5 and the other for XenApp 7.6. I looked for an article from Citrix on making the Director site the default page in IIS and did not find anything. So I have ripped off, I mean borrowed heavily from, the Citrix article How to Make StoreFront the Default Page within IIS to do what I needed done.

Active Setup and Non-Responding Internet Explorer

A few days ago, Carl wrote a very interesting article on "strange" IE behavior here: https://www.carlwebster.com/internet-explorer-10-and-11-open-to-blank-white-screen-or-become-unresponsive/ This made me remember an issue I had dealt with earlier, very similar to the…

Another HRP, another picadm.sys bug?

Picadm.sys you say? A few years back I already wrote about picadm.sys issues: https://www.carlwebster.com/the-curious-case-of-the-slow-file-transfer/ Citrix has been updating picadm.sys numerous times since then, and also did in the latest release: HRP06.…