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Looks like there is a bug using version 6 of the offline plugin causing a 5 minute delay trying to open Microsoft Office from a streamed application.  The issue I speak of presented itself when trying to call Microsoft Word (Either locally or streamed) from within a streamed clinical application.  The clinical application I was working with

I was trying to lauch a published app in a client’s new XenApp 5 HR06 environment and kept encountering the following error: The application failed to initialize properly (0×06d007e). Click on OK to terminate the application. Launching the app locally and via RDP worked great so we knew it had to be something from our ICA session. A

I just finished an implementation and management course for RecoverPoint this past week.  Something that caught my interest from the very beginning was how the setup phase of the  course was modeled around the new Deployment Manager.  As the tool has evolved, this now seems to be the de facto method for installations, upgrades, replacement of

If you’re using XenApp prep and working with Provisioning Server or virtual machine templates, it’s a good idea to delete the service and rerun the initialization command when modifying your image.  I usually create a batch script that can be executed before shutting down the server after all changes are made.  The commands to execute

I recently encountered a situation where I needed to change the ODBC connection to an SRM database.  The ODBC had originally been setup to use Windows Authentication and I wanted to use SQL Authentication.  I originally attempted to modify the existing DSN which was unsuccessful.  This error kept appearing in the SRM Logs. [2010-03-08 13:40:07.845

I’m a little late on this post I know, anyhow, better late than never right?  VMware PEX 2010 was two weeks ago and a lot of information around its contents has already been discussed and talked about. However, I do want to share my experience around the event and my take on things that were

I recently ran into an issue installing Office in a Terminal Services/Citrix environment with the Office 2003 Resource Kit.  No matter how many times I uninstalled and re-installed Office 2003 I could not get the transform to generate my custom11.prf file for Outlook profiles.  I had an idea that there might be some remnants of

So, with the introduction of vSphere, SQL 2000 is no longer supported.  For several environments this isn’t an issue, but there are a few environments out there that want to upgrade who have kept SQL 2000 around.  Fortunately, after a little research and some trial and error, I found a process that helped me to

NetScaler VPX is now available for ESX and ESXi.  http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?content

I was rebuilding a PVS infrastructure with a new database and ran into an issue with the migration.  I was trying to decide whether it would be faster to migrate the existing database or start from scratch and rebuild everything.  Nothing was in production yet and after a little research, migrating the existing PVS database

The EMC storage viewer has always been a handy interface to peer into your VMware storage in the vcenter interface.  Due to depreciated changes in the plugin framework, this no longer works after update 1.  Rumor has it that version 2.1 of the plugin should be out any day now and this newer version should

XenDesktop 4 is available today with FlexCast, HDX, and more.  Check out the Citrix Blog for more information:
http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2009/11/16/XenDesktop+4+is+here!

There’s a new functionality on the horizon with EMC Storage Arrays and the way that they handle their data.  The standard way to provision storage has always been to size your performance requirements correctly and statically assign a RAID Group with a certain number of disks running either SATA or Fibre Channel, and most recently

I had an issue when running the XenDesktop Setup Wizard where the wizard wouldn’t connect to the provisioning server.  This is because many of the ports have changed recently due to port collision issues.  To resolved this it is necessary to edit the SetupToolApplication.exe.config file and change the following settings. The default installation path is C:\Program

Some new updates out recently for Xenapp and Provisioning Server
Hotfix Rollup Pack 5 for XenApp 5.0 on Server 2003
http://support.citrix.com/product/xa/v5.0_2003/
Citrix Provisioning Server 5.1 SP1
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX122799