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July 14, 2014July 14, 2014Citrix, PowerShell

PowerShell script to detect if you are running in Citrix XenApp Environment

PowerShell script to detect if you are running in Citrix XenApp Environment It is very usual that you find enterprises supporting Physical and Virtual environments. When you have to setup an automation or an application customization across such an enterprise, you often require to determine the environment where the user is logged in and apply appropriate settings. Say you want to set a user environment variable ONLY when an application is launched on the local physical machines but not when launched in Citrix environment. If you have to achieve this with a script that runs automatically for all users, you […]

June 2, 2014June 2, 2014Citrix, Repackaging, Windows Technologies

Verifying Client Redirection of Citrix “HDX MediaStream For Flash” is working and fine-tuning the Client Devices for improved performance.

Requirement: You enable “HDX MediaStream Flash Redirection on the User Device” setting in Citrix Policies and would like to verify the effect of the policy on the client system/device Verifying “HDX MediaStream Flash Redirection on the User Device” on User Device: On the user device connect to the Citrix Session and open any of the Flash video content, say play a video on Youtube. This will cause your session policy to redirect the Flash video play to the client device. Requirements on Client Device: User device should have any of the supported version of Flash Player installed. When Flash content […]

April 17, 2014Citrix

XenApp 7.5 and XenDesktop 7.5 Blueprints

If you look at the XenApp and XenDesktop deployments to date, you will notice that most of the users’ requirements fit into one of the following buckets: · User requires access to a line of business application · User requires access to a standardized desktop environment · User requires access to a personalized desktop environment · A combination of the above Another thing you will notice with these 4 buckets is that “Users” “Access” a “Resource”, whether that resource is an app or a desktop or a combination. This is how you should start to think about your own XenApp […]