Fix: XenApp 6 “Access is Denied” Error While Application Launch

XenApp 6 you may encounter error "Access is Denied" for few specific users while launching the application. Symptoms: Error occurs for only few users for all published applications The same applications run for many other users without any issues There are no access differences for reported users w.r.t XenApp 6 or Windows rights and permissions Cause: Such an issue can happen for specific user accounts when they are part of large number (say 500+) of Active Directory groups. Due to which the Windows user rights enumeration fails since the default Kerboros MaxToken Size (12,000 bytes) can’t accommodate the details to […]

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HotFix: Scheduled Tasks Deployed by Group Policy Preferences do not run on Windows Server 2008

When you configure the schedule tasks for a server running Windows Server 2008 via Group Policy Preferences (GPP), the schedule tasks never run or delayed by an hour. You don’t see any errors in the logs either.   Microsoft has confirmed this as an issue on Windows Server 2008 due to incorrect date handling by Group Policy preferences engine. This behavior causes the wrong day to be used to start the scheduled task.  This incorrect date is one day earlier or one day later. For example, you use the Central Time (US and Canada) time zone and schedule the task […]

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