Thomas Koetzing

How to: Mobile devices and Access Gateway VPX

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:46:59 GMT

Using Mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, Blackberry etc. with Citrix Access Gateway VPX is often a topic in Citrix Support forums. Quite some configuration needs to be done to make it work but here in a nutshell how to do the configuration with Access...(read more)

How to Google and to Google for Citrix stuff

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:13:05 GMT

How do you Google? Really?? I read quite often that I searched for hours, even days, and couldn't find anything when it took me only seconds or minutes; of course not always. The Google Basics Check out the picture about some options you have to use...(read more)

Using CMD in the command line as publish application

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:54:39 GMT

For different reasons people use scripts to launch publish applications but is that really necessary? How about you could do that right in the command line while publishing the application? That way you would not need a script.I have done exactly that...(read more)

Tuning Microsoft Internet Explorer by group policy

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:49:01 GMT

Many companies have a policy to use Microsoft Internet Explorer as browser and most of my customers too. I monitored sessions and Internet Explorer uses sometimes quite some memory. I personly had four tabs open with around 440 MB memory usage in total...(read more)

Custom Citrix Administrator and DCOM permissions

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:40:42 GMT

According to CTX126977 (http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX126977) you just need to add users to the local Distributed COM Users to get a custom Citrix Administrator to work. This should ensure that users can enumerate across all servers in the farm...(read more)

Citrix XenApp 6.x Update Script v 1.5

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:44:08 GMT

New version of my XenApp update script to support XenApp 6.5 and 6.0. New is a source media check because some of the XenApp hotfixes requires access to the source media during installation. The update script has been already downloaded several thousand...(read more)

Understanding Universal Print Server (UPS)

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:48:46 GMT

I have lately dropped here and there comments about Citrix Universal Printer Server code name Phaser and actually some Citrix guys make fun of me because I'm so persistent with that topic since 2009! Why 2009? Well at iForum 2009 in Las Vegas, Citrix...(read more)

Understanding Citrix Universal Print Server (UPS)

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:48:36 GMT

I have lately dropped here and there comments about the Universal Printer Server code name Phaser and actually some Citrix guys make fun of me because I'm so persistent with that topic since 2009! Why 2009? Well at iForum Las Vegas Citrix developer...(read more)

Web Interface replaced by Citrix Cloud Gateway

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:34:52 GMT

At Citrix Synergy Barcelona there where several sessions about Cloud Gateway to replace Web Interface. Interesting that they had also a Q A with a CTP friend to tell people why it's good to move while I was in the audience. Now back in 2009 I already...(read more)

Citrix Universal Print Server out soon

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:54:10 GMT

The community technology preview (CTP) of Citrix Universal Print Server (UPS) will be available very soon (this or next week!) at MyCitrix.com. UPS has two parts the Print Server service that you have to install on Windows Server 2008 x86 (x64 bit is...(read more)

Windows 8 Developer Preview on Citrix XenServer

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:31:32 GMT

Windows 8 Developer Preview is out and works well on Microsoft Hyper-V but get't in a reboot loop with XenServer. To fix the issue you have to set parameter on the XenServer comand line interface (CLI).Create a VM with a Win7 template and copy the...(read more)

Help! Everything opens with a Single-click!

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:47:21 GMT

Help! Everything opens with a Single-click! That must be a bug! Windows 2008/R2 as well as VISTA/Windows 7 have a new Windows Explorer behavior and can be set in Folder Options . With Remote Desktop Service often the option is set to Single-click and...(read more)

Ten printing rules with Citrix XenApp

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:15:17 GMT

Printing has always been an issue with XenApp or the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and it still is. Therfore I have now written ten printing rules with Citrix XenApp and parts of it apply also to RDS.Find my ten printing rules here (/index.php?option...(read more)

Citrix XenApp - Virtualization Best Practices

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:57:42 GMT

Citrix has release a guide for Citrix XenApp - Virtualization Best Practices and describes best practices for XenApp hosted by XenServer, vSphere and Hyper-V. Here a short summary of the main points that I advise my customer too.Overcommit CPU: No - reserve...(read more)

What happened to Citrix SpeedScreen?

Thomas Koetzing - SBC specialist — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:56:27 GMT

SpeedScreen is an old technology by Citrix but what happened with it? Where can I find it in XenApp 6.0 or 6.5? SpeedScreen is another victim of Citrix renaming policy ;-)The renaming started within XenApp 4.5 with some feature pack introducing HDX.Here...(read more)