Category: Citrix

  • User got stuck during Citrix logon process

    The problem Last week we got a call from a customer saying that one user is logging on for more than one hour. To confirm what was happening we opened the Citrix Director. We searched for the specific user and found the session status on Logging On. When opening the Citrix Studio we found the…

  • How to cancel a Citrix Scheduled Reboot Cycle

    Within a banking company I got the question if it is possible to cancel the daily schedule reboot. Sometimes employees need to work during the scheduled reboot. So they want the ability to cancel this reboot. To understand how the Citrix Scheduled Reboot was working I went online and found a very good blog post…

  • About me

    My name is Niels Geursen and I work as an IT Architect. I started my career in the year 2000. I learned about IT challenges from small to enterprise companies in the past years. In all these years I also got the opportunity to educate myself by following courses and doing exams for Citrix, Microsoft, and…

  • Prevent users saving items on the Citrix/Terminal Server desktop.

    In my current environment we allow users to save items on their desktop. Because we are using mandatory profiles we save the settings using Flex profiles from Immidio. Lately some users are complaining that the logon times are increasing. After some investigation we came to the conclusion that the users are saving a lot of files…

  • Citrix XenApp Migration Powershell cmdlets

    In my previous post I mentioned the Citrix XenApp migration cmdlets. After some testing I found a bug in the migration tool. I ran the following command. Start-XAMigration -ExportOnly <ServerName> The migration starts and is creating log about what is being exported.