Citrix tip: needing help with getting MS teams working in your environment?

Recently been putting teams through its paces in a citrix environment and had a few issues getting it up and running, found this guide to be very very useful: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX253754 What’s nice is citrix have bundled all their pieces into the one CTX article which is nice and clean.  

Citrix tip: experiencing application performance slowdowns post XA 6.5 -> 7.15 upgrade?

Getting some noise this on the citrix forums and interestingly the performance factors can come in a number of form but in general just really poor application performance carrying out basic functions (up to 10 times slower responses recorded) – RDP’ing to the same systems and testing performance all checks out.   Fix On the … More Citrix tip: experiencing application performance slowdowns post XA 6.5 -> 7.15 upgrade?

Climate change and what as a citrix admin can do to help! – part 1

Don’t get me wrong, i am sure my carbon footprint is pretty bad, I would like to think I recycle what i can and do my “bit” but certainly could do more. From delving into this piece it got me thinking what can I do to help from a work perspective? well with citrix there … More Climate change and what as a citrix admin can do to help! – part 1

Using workspace environment manager in a PVS environment?

Definitely check out the following article(kudos to Julian) – without it essentially in a PVS environment will find either one of 2 issues: i) WEM agent won’t work at all ii) WEM agent starts working but only after a few moments – which kinda defeats some of its purpose (as one of its main benefits … More Using workspace environment manager in a PVS environment?

Sizing considerations when deploying Citrix storefront

Recently on the citrix discussion forums there was a query regards citrix storefront and scalability. Did a bit of digging and found the following article up on eDocs that covered the scalability question: go to “Scalability” section https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/storefront/current-release/plan.html?_ga=2.258392906.1744586200.1556877316-854544749.1527671460  

An optimized citrix virtual explorer published app and observations that came with it

So while back whilst working on an issue with a customer got some great feedback regards to their day to day workings – what worked well and what didn’t work for them. In particular my focus lay in particular on what their performance was like in their interactions with using office files and what they … More An optimized citrix virtual explorer published app and observations that came with it

Citrix profile management users – be careful if updating your VDI to W10 branch release 1809

Recently we looked to upgrade our VDI build (1803) for EA testing to the latest branch release and encountered issues relating to citrix user profile management. During the upgrade received the following message “error during MIGRATE_DATA operation”. Resolution Updating our patches on the existing build to include patch KB4343909 resolved the issue, link below : … More Citrix profile management users – be careful if updating your VDI to W10 branch release 1809