Day: November 11, 2011

Symptoms On a XenApp 5 farm on windows 2008 server, all applications published were launching very slowly and would never launch in seamless mode. (The application would be presented in a fixed size window.) Published desktops launch quickly. Non-seamless applications (fixed size resolution or percentage of screen) launch quickly. The issue affected both streamed to server applications and normal applications such as a simple published Notepad. Apparently, the problem had started after several Microsoft hotfixes had been deployed using Windows update. Steps in the following article were verified but without providing a solution: CTX102750 – Seamless Applications Launch in a […]

Problem Description Application sets are configured to launch applications seamlessly. A fixed window appears when launching the application. Other advantages of seamless technology may also fail (for example, session sharing). Additionally, all custom connections may default to a lower than desired resolution and/or color depth. Resolution Investigate the Path variable: Move Citrix specific information to the beginning of the path variable. Ensure the entry DLLName exists in HKLMSWMicrosoftWindowsNTCurrentVersionWinlogonNotifyMetaFrame and the value is ctxnotif.dll . Ensure users have access to this key. Ensure that the file exists and users have access to the file. Ensure that the correct version of sehook.dll […]

Summary This article describes how the ICA listener and IP address registration in the Data Store works in XenApp 6. Requirements To detect how the ICA listener works and how it relates to the IMA service, you must have XenApp 6 in Windows 2008 Server R2 with more than one network adapter configured. Discussion In previous versions of XenApp, by default, you can have a different IP address configured in the ICA listener than the IP address registered in the Data store. With XenApp 6, the IP address in the ICA Listener configuration is directly related to the IP address […]