I’ve been running in my 6/6.5 environment since the beginning with UPM and didn’t even realize that the cookies were not saving properly. Apparently this is a known issue and the fix is simple! You need to add 2 things to your UPM Group Policy object. First, Add “AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies” to the “Folders to Mirror” policy. Second, enable “Process Internet cookie files on logoff” under the “Advanced settings” folder. When the user logs out and back in again, UPM will start properly processing cookies. Note: This does add a couple of seconds to the logoff time for users. Keep in mind if adding this to an existing environment that it could add minutes to the logoff time the very FIRST time a user logs off if they have a lot of cookies.

XenApp Manager is a light weight administration app, available from the Windows Store, that lets XenApp administrators perform  session management tasks on their Citrix XenApp 6.5 farms.

Read more Here

Orazz from CitrixIRC found a great forum post that really made an impact on our environment. In a nutshell, when using the 2008 R2 Optimization Guide for XenApp and the Citrix Profile Manger, there is a registry setting that causes the UPM to timeout. A lot! After making the changes below, I noticed an immediate improvement in performance of the UPM. Logon/Logoff times have been reduced significantly. I’m also hoping this is going to lower the profile corruption issues that also pop up from now and again. We don’t have many since upgrading to UPM 4.x, but we still do have some.

1. Upgrade to UPM 4.1.2
2. Change HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\”NTFSDisabledot3NameCreation” from “1″ to “0″ ( I did this using a GPP object as part of the optimization guide. I simply edited the GPP and changed to “0″)
3. Backup and delete the keys from “HKLM\Software\Policies\Citrix\UserProfileManager”
4. Reboot

Upon rebooting I verified the keys were recreated, and the NTFSDisabledot3NameCreation was set to 0.

Note, some interesting changes in UPM 4.1.2 also. We use “Delete locally cached profiles on logoff”. This process now takes about 3 minutes for the folder to delete from the XenApp server. This is part of the new design. See UPM 4.1.2 in support.citrix.com/article/CTX134616

Citrix Forum Post

Good XenServer Master Class coming up on December 13th. Check it out here.

check out the post here.

Citrix Education is pleased to announce the availability of BETA Exam 1Y1-A28 Implementing NetScaler 10 for Networking and Traffic Optimization. While in beta, this exam is available free of cost!

 Read here for more information

Found a nice collection article today for various Citrix tools.
Click here!

Do you have any HP Printers that are using the Windows LaserJet Family Driver and they are only printing 1 page no matter how many copies you select? Disabling Mopier mode (which is enabled by default) fixes the problem.  We have seen this problem in XenApp 6 and 6.5.

Steps to fix:
1. Start > Devices and Printers
2. Right Click Printer >Printer Properties
3. Click “Device Settings” tab
4. Scroll to bottom of page and change “Mopier Mode” to Disabled under the “Installable Options” group

Came up in chat today about documenting the HDX polices to publish for the support desk.
Quick and easy way is Carl Webster’s various documentation scripts for Citrix.
They can be found here
enjoy and don’t’ forget to toss Carl a thank you if you use them!

Shane Kleinert a frequent member of #CitrixIRC’s latest blog series on SCVMM & XenServer.

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