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I was recently asked by a client whether it was possible to control Citrix XenApp 7.6 Citrix Receiver published applications on a desktop’s start menu.  By this he meant that many users did not like the fact that applications were put into the start menu

As demonstrated in one of my previous posts for XenDesktop 5.6: Using PowerCLI to create new role and assign service account used by Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 permissions for vCenter Server 5.1 https://blog.terenceluk.com/2013/04/using-powercli-to-create-new-role-and_9.html … you can use PowerCLI to create, configure and assign the role required

I’ve been asked several times over the past few months about how to change the default view for a StoreFront portal to display the Apps tab instead of the Desktops tab as shown in the following screenshot: The configuration is actually quite simple and can

Problem You’re performing a routing upgrade of an existing XenApp 7.5 environment to 7.6 environment and reach the step where you need to upgrade the XenDesktop / XenApp VDA agent 7.5 to 7.6 but notice that it fails at Component Initialization: Clicking on the Why

I’ve recently been asked a few times about what the database requirements were for Citrix XenDesktop and XenDesktop 7.5 / 7.6 and I thought I’d write a blog post so I could direct people to as well as reference it myself. The supported database editions

Citrix Profile Management 5.2.0 which is bundled with XenDesktop or XenApp 7.5 / 7.6 hasn’t changed much other than the agent now included when the VDA (Virtual Delivery Agent) is installed onto your application server: C:Program FilesCitrixUser Profile Manager … but as I had to

Problem You’re attempting to secure the traffic between your Citrix XenDesktop or XenApp 7.5 / 7.6 environment so that your StoreFront server uses HTTPS instead of HTTP to communicate to Delivery Controller: You’ve gone ahead and issued a certificate with a SAN entry of the

I recently had to upgrade a customer’s environment from Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 to 7.6 (the procedure to upgrade Xendesktop 7.1 to 7.5 is the same) and thought I’d document the process so I had something to reference to in case I had to do this

I’ve been asked several times since XenDesktop 7 was released when Windows Server 2012 R1 and R2 were supported operating systems about how can a Remote Desktop Services License server be defined from a application server with a Windows Server 2012 R1 or R2 as