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VMware UEM – Unable to browse AD groups in Conditions and Condition Sets
Within VMware UEM you are able to filter out settings based on conditions. These condition can be set directly on the config or by creating a condition set and attach the condition set on the config. Some examples of conditions are Endpoint IP Address, Environment Variables, Group Membership, IP Address and a lot more. Problem…
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Horizon DaaS: Unable to start VMware UAG
The VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is a virtual appliance primarily used to allow secure external access to your organization’s applications. These application can be native windows applications, software as a service (SaaS) applications, and desktops. VMware UAG is typically deployed in a DMZ. For more information see: https://docs.vmware.com/en/Unified-Access-Gateway/index.html Problem A while ago a customer…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Slow application start times VMware UEM and App-V
When users need to wait for 60 seconds until they can interact with the application the user experience is impacted. We encountered this behaviour at a costumer and needed to troubleshoot this. To read more on how I found the problem by excluding antivirus and group policy settings see my guest blog post at Logit Blog
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App-V 5.0 registry import not working using dynamic config
A few weeks ago I called my colleague Ryan Bijkerk of www.logitblog.com with the question can VDI tuning break App-V? This inspired him to write a nice article on how performance optimization van break App-V which can be found here. Within our company we are using VDI for desktops and App-V 5.0 for application virtualization.…
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Generic USB devices XenDesktop 7.6
USB devices are automatically redirected when USB support is enabled, and the USB user preference settings are set to automatically connect USB devices. In Receiver for Windows 4.2, USB devices are also automatically redirected when operating in Desktop Appliance mode, and the connection bar is not present. In earlier versions of Receiver for Windows, USB…
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Automation Machine 2014 – AM2014
In one of my previous posts I mention Automation Machine for hosted desktops. A few months ago Automation Machine launched a new version. In the next paragraph you can read more about AutomationMachine 2014.
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PowerShell 3.0 stopped working!?
In a Citrix XenApp 6.0 environment I use a lot of powershell scripts to get things going. For example during logon of a user some scripts are used to copy program settings to the user profile. Under PowerShell 2.0 everything went fine. After the release of PowerShell 3.0 we updated the environment with the latest…