Entries by Michaja van der Zouwen

User deployed App-V packages in Ivanti Workspace won’t start

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Michaja van der ZouwenIs an all-round IT engineer with special skills in Microsoft, Citrix, RES and VMware products. Loves a challenge in his work and has taught himself scripting. Initially batch scripts, and later PowerShell. This helps him to automate processes and procedures, and to develop his own management tools which can be used every […]

Unable to add a storage place in BizzDesign Enterprise Studio App-V package

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I had the following issue with an Enterprise Studio App-V package: users reported they where no longer able to add a storage place. A window would open but the embedded browser was empty so it was impossible to authenticate. We had updated the App-V package over a month ago but have had no issues during […]

How to migrate Ivanti Workspace Profiles to Microsoft Profile Containers (FSlogix)

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I’ve recently started looking for a way to boost performance of our VDI environment. One aspect of the performance degradation is that the User Settings stored by Ivanti Workspace Control are taking their sweet time to load. Not at all surprising since the settings grow over time and there are a lot of tiny files […]

Get-Certificate : Template is not supported by this CA

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I came across this error while trying to automate a computer certificate enrollment. I used the following command: This give me the following error: Get-Certificate : CertEnroll::CX509Enrollment::InitializeFromTemplateName: Template is not supported by this CA. 0x80094800 (-2146875392 CERTSRV_E_UNSUPPORTED_CERT_TYPE) I tried this command with the default webserver template and it went fine. But all custom templates failed. […]

Circumvent PrintNightmare issues using Ivanti Workspace Control

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Since the whole PrintNightmare debacle started lot’s of printer issues have been reported after installing the latest Windows Update. Printers connected through a printserver used to automatically install and update drivers from this server onto the client. But these days only administrators are allowed to install printer drivers. Sure, you can disable that with a […]

Upgrade Windows 10 using Automation and MDT

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Upgrading Windows 10 to a new build can be a headache. I’ve tried the WSUS route but that did not go smoothly. Many upgrades failed or were skipped for some reason. I’ve found the best way to upgrade Windows is to use MDT (Microsoft Deployment Toolkit). Creating the task sequence is easy: just run the […]

Ivanti Workspace keeps crashing/restarting

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I recently came across a really weird issue. A user called complaining his desktop screen kept going black after logging in to an new VDI session. Then the start menu would appear for a few seconds and then it went back to black. I shadowed his session and it looked like the Ivanti Workspace shell […]

Citrix Desktop Lock fails the first time

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We’re in the middle of a Windows 10 migration for one of our customers and noticed the following issue: after installing Windows 10 on a client machine with Citrix Workspace App Desktop Lock as the shell the first time a user logs in Desktop Lock will fail and the user will be logged out. This […]

Citrix VDI VM’s freezing intermittently

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While testing a new Windows 10 VDI environment we came across the following issue: The VM’s started freezing intermittently. The issue started after migrating a large group of users to the environment. We hadn’t had any issues beforehand and no recent changes where made to both the infrastructure and the PVS vDisk. VM’s where completely […]

Packaging Office Apps: Something went wrong (30016-7)

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Packaging Office applications like Project and Visio using the App-V 5.1 packager is no longer an option. You have to use the Office Deployment Tool to create a package. This tool is made up of a singe setup.exe and a configuration.xml file. You have to edit the xml file to download the software (not optional, […]