Is Citrix FastLaunch a good option to improve logon time of Citrix XenApp sessions?
30 Jan
Posted by Roberto as Citrix
In this month Citrix released a new utility called FastLaunch. This is not a official supported utility or even a tech preview. It is just a very small utility made by IT guys in Citrix to “hold” Citrix sessions, providing to users reconnect their sessions every time, instead to logon again.
This tool was created some [...]
Day by day, PDF files are becoming more and more popular and in some cases, more used than .doc files! And I bet that many Citrix administrators never stopped to think how much the PDF Readers are affecting the server performance and scalability in a Citrix farm, considering that memory consumption of PDF readers can [...]
To measure the Citrix XenApp (Presentation Server/Metaframe) or Terminal Services link consumption for an application the best is: publish to users and watch. Yes! Users are totally unpredictable and is very difficult to know every thing that they can do in some scenarios.
But, you always need know how much bandwidth an applications needs to be [...]
One picture say more than a thousand words. Because this in some cases I like to include a lot of images on my project documentations. Generally, these pictures are PrintScreens of consoles and their configurations and diagrams that explain some funcionality.
Benefits when you use pictures instead pure text on project documentations:
You are sure that all [...]
On last year, with Presentation Server client version 10.x Citrix finally introduced a template .adm to administration of clients configurations through Windows Group Policies. This icaclient.adm template is very useful to ensure to you that all configurations were applied to all users that you want.
With this .adm you can do somethings like:
Configure single Sign-On for [...]
I made little modifications on this script created by Jakob Heidelberg to search for printers manually created on user profiles. This is very usefull when you wanna ensure that eveybody has only auto created printers, from Citrix or ThinPrint.
This script load ntuser.dat on each profile, check some registry keys, write a log and unload ntuser.dat. [...]
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