After an unpretty Hyper-V cluster failover, several machines in our Xen Desktop deployment were showing an “unknown” power state. After a call to Citrix, they gave my coworker a few commands to use to fix it. This has to be done from the Xen Desktop controller: Load the Citrix PSSnapIn: Add-PSSnapIn Citrix.* This gets… Continue reading Script to fix “unknown” power state in Xen Desktop
Category: Citrix
Citrix Worker Groups
Lately, we have been deploying XenApp servers using Citrix Provisioning Services. This is a great tool, that we have only just started using. In our current process, we are creating a group of machines using PVS. When they come up, the join the farm and by virtue of the AD OU they are in, they… Continue reading Citrix Worker Groups
Launch a PowerShell script minimized
We use Citrix for a lot of applications, and I have a need to launch Outlook, then an application, and then close Outlook when that application is closed by the user. This seems like a pretty simple thing to do (and I suppose it is, sort of) but it took me a while to figure… Continue reading Launch a PowerShell script minimized
Unable to login to Citrix server via RDP or ICA
We have recently set up some new Windows Server 2008 R2/Citrix XenApp 6.0 servers. For some reason, users could not launch a remote desktop to them even though we (thought) allowed this. Turns out there is a policy which blocks this by default. I found the answer here: Re: Unable to login using RDP or… Continue reading Unable to login to Citrix server via RDP or ICA