Category: Citrix

VirtuAll User Environment Manager (aka V.U.E.M) is an environment management tool designed for Virtual Desktops but that can also run on traditional desktops. It’s purpose is to get rid of login scripts that can be really powerfull but hard to maintain and make evolve. A Community License is a free version with no support contract, and a Subscriber License is delivered with a Maintenance & Support Package   Architecture VUEM relies on a typical client/server database architecture, where: VUEM Administration Console & Agents are written in Net Framework 4 (C#). All Agent actions are written using unmanaged API calls, meaning […]

XenApp has a function that monitors for Explorer.exe being launched as a published app, and prevents it from running in shell mode. If we did not intercept explorer.exe in this way then a full desktop would ALWAYS be shown if you tried to launch explorer.exe.  The hook XenApp uses to prevent Explorer running in Shell mode can be disabled in the registry so that Explorer always runs in shell mode.  This is described in http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX108784. When you map a network drive, an Operating System call WM_DEVICECHANGE is made to show the addition of a device (WM_DEVICECHANGE).  WM_DEVICECHANGE call is a […]