Entries by Ingmar Verheij

Citrix XenCenter crashes with error 0xc000007b

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Author: Ingmar Verheij After launching Citrix XenCenter if crashed with error 0xc00007b and exited immediately. Although my work laptop is really in need of some TLC – it needs a clean install, I preferred troubleshooting the issue. A quick trace with Sysinternals Process Monitor showed a dynamic link library (DLL) being loaded that I didn’t […]

Delayed browsing (5 sec) with redirected My Documents on Windows Server 2003

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Author : Ingmar Verheij When you’re opening a Windows dialog like “Open File” / “Save File” or browse in Windows Explorer with a redirected My Documents folder, you might encounter a delay between 3 ~5 seconds. This is issue applies to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 (and maybe more operating systems).   The problem can […]

HP Smart Zero Client, a first impression

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Author: Ingmar Verheij In the end of 2011 Hewlett-Packard introduced a range of zero clients and described them as “the affordable, reprogrammable and to-smart-to-be-called-a-zero-client, clients”. The clients come in two forms; HP Zero Clients, which are unmanaged, and the HP Smart Zero Clients. which are managed. An overview of the available products can be found […]

Install Citrix APPDNA with QuickDB on a non-system drive

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Author: Ingmar Verheij There are two installers available for Citrix AppDNA (former App-DNA Apptitude). Depending on how big of a download you want to obtain and distribute internally, you can choose any of those two. Both installers will result in the same product: AppDNA Enterprise Edition [288MB] AppDNA Enterprise Edition with Quick DB Install [659MB] […]

Howto: Citrix AppDNA installation logfiles

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Author: Ingmar Verheij If your having problems installing Citrix AppDNA (former App-DNA Apptitude) you’ll might struggle to find installation log files. This is because the logfiles aren’t created by default, you need to enable it by placing a marker file.   The installer checks if the file %Temp%\ActivateAppTitudeVerboseLog.txt exists: Ingmar VerheijWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte […]

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable – Version 8.0.56336

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Author: Ingmar Verheij After a customer lost the installation scripts and setup files I had to reconstruct a part of the deployment for him. Luckily (for him) the servers where still running so they could continue working. It gave me the opportunity to get an overview of the installed components on the server, nice! One […]

“Citrix Receiver – Security Warning” explained and demystified

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Author : Ingmar Verheij When you’ve worked with a Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop environment you must be familiar with the Security Warning dialog. It prevents a remote machine (your hosted application or desktop) from accessing resources on the client device, a security boundary you want to protect when from unmanaged systems. But on managed systems […]

Receiver 11.05 for Windows CE fixes disappearing smartcard in Citrix session (UZI pas)

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Author: Ingmar Verheij Last year I wrote an article about a smartcard (UZI pas) that couldn’t be used from a Windows CE 6 thin client in a Citrix XenApp environment. The problem seemed to be solved with a private client and installing Hotfix Rollup Pack 6 on the server. Months later, when the customer started […]

32bpp in XenServer virtual machine

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Author: Ingmar Verheij Recently I had to setup a virtual machine on a Citrix XenServer host that could use 32bpp. This turned out harder than I thought because the default video adapter in a Xen virtual machine is a Cirrus with 4MB, and that video card is not capable of 32bpp. Ingmar VerheijWas once an […]

Unable to install/activate LoadBot (Denamik LoadGen)

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Author : Ingmar Verheij Denamik LoadGen can perform load- and stresstest on SBC and VDI environments by to simulate users. To distribute the load systems called ‘LoadBots’ are used to generate the load, resulting in an architecture with horizontal scaling capabilities. Before a system is called a LoadBot an agent needs to be installed. The […]