Citrix, Virtualization and Cloud

I can't find any place to set the Custom RDP Settings on my Windows Server 2012 Connection Broker. I also looked in the wrong place, because the settings are "only" set via PowerShell and I look in the GUI. Open PowerShell with admin rights Import the remote desktop service module ->  Import-Module RemoteDesktopService Type the following command: Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration -CollectionName XXXX -CustomRdpProperty "authentication level:i:0 pre-authentication server address:s:https://XXXX.XXXX.XXX/rdweb require pre-authentication:i:1" The example is for the configuration of RDS in connection with TMG. Conclusion : Not in the GUI but in PowerShell! :-)

From current occasion I'm writing this post... I hope citrix takes it not angry with me. :-) Which of us is not familiar with this situation? Quickly install and configure and later the password is forgotten. In order to reset the password of the citrix license console you must perform the following steps. Open the server.xml file with notepad.exe (You can find the file under "%ProgramFiles%\Citrix\Licensing\LS\conf".) Search the the entry... <user firstName="System" id="admin" lastName="Administrator" password="(ENC-01)XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" passwordExpired="false" privileges="admin"/>; You must erase the contents between the double quotes after " password="" " Enter a plaintext passwort (Example: " password=TEST ") Now change the passwordExpired value from " false " to " true " Save the file server.xml on the same location Restart the Citrix li

When you login to your web interface and launch a new desktop, it might not launch and you might get this error in the application event log on the server: Source: Citrix Web Interface Event ID: 30105   The Citrix servers do not trust the server. This message was reported from the XML Service at address http://localhost/scripts/wpnbr.dll [com.citrix.xml.NFuseProtocol.RequestAddress].   [Unique Log ID: xxxxxxxx] In XenDesktop 5.0 and 5.5 can you fix the problem with the follow steps: Oper PowerShell with admin rights Import all citrix snap-ins with this command asnp citrix.* Add-PSSnapin citrix.* You can enable the XML Trust with this command Set-BrokerSite -TrustRequestsSentToTheXmlServicePort $true After this 3 steps the lauch it should come right up and there are no more errors in the log. How to Add XenDesktop Cmdlets into Powershell -> Video

By default, XenDesktop disables SecureICA. If you enable it, the default encryption level is 128-bit. You can configure the level using the XenDesktop SDK or with this three steps... In Desktop Studio, select the Assignments node in the left pane, and select the desktop group whose communications you want to secure. Click Edit desktop group . On the End user settings page, select Enable Secure ICA . This is solved differently than in XenApp . In XenApp, it ' s controlled via policy.

 Aero Redirection is automatically installed with XenDesktop 5.5 on Windows 7 VDAs on XenServer 5.6 or higher and above and ESX hypervisors. When you install Windows 7 VDAs on Hyper-V without RemoteFX, you must specify the command-line option /CITRIXWDDMONHYPERV to the setup. XenDesktopVdaSetup.exe /CITRIXWDDMONHYPERV The XenDesktopVdaSetup.exe file is located in the folder "XenDesktop Setup", in the install media.    If RemoteFX is installed the command-line has no effect. Aero Redirection cannot be installed on any other VDAs, including physical.

Lync - EWS not deployed on Configuration Tab Lync was not able to find EWS, althoght Outlook and Exchange autodiscovery seems to be ok. You will see EWS not deployed in Lync 2010 client configuratiob tab. You can using this with Ctrl+Right click  on Lync sign on the taskbar. The problem can fixed by modifying the Autodiscover-Webconfig (you find the web.config under %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\ClientAccess\Autodiscover\web.config). Open the Config-File with notepad.exe and adding the following line under <handlers>... <add name="AutodiscoverSVCHandler" path="*.svc" verb="POST" type="System.ServiceModel.Activation.HttpHandler, System.ServiceModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv2.0" /> You can see the full config in the following PrintScrn... Restart the Lync-Client and reopen the configuration tab. You c