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Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Management, Maintenance & Reporting]]>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:49:50 GMT102399Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/102256Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:27:46 GMT102256Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/101999
I have a couple of servers which do not exist anymore.
Can I open the SQL database with SQL manager and delete the servers from the database or is there a better way to do this?

Thanks !Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:50:16 GMT101999Citrix XenDesktop / VMware VDM / VDIhttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/101627
I know VDI has all the buzz but if you are just using Microsoft Office why go to the expense of using VDI when I can publish the applications and get 200 con-current users on a 64 bit presentation server.

Thanks

JL
Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix XenDesktop / VMware VDM / VDI]]>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:57:58 GMT101627Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/99653
i.e.

LOCAL C = V$ ( nb : This maps ok , the clients C maps to the V$ without issue )
LOCAL D = U$

etc.. etc...

but it appears that when your citrix server does not have a local D drive the client mapping ignores the initialclientdrive and maps to D$

I even tried to create a D drive on the Citrix server by doing a Subst D: C:\ but this made no difference.

Can anyone give me an idea on how I can stop this behaviour.

Thanks
Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Tue, 27 May 2008 05:40:57 GMT99653Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/98407
Any information from the forum would be appreciated.

Thanks

EricRead more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:03:36 GMT98407Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/98238
I'm just looking in to creating a list of the most common objections regarding Thin Clients?

What I have so far is - A PC or Fat Client Advantages:
? Always provides a better user experience
? Fewer server requirements.
? Better multimedia performance.
? More flexibility.
? Better peripheral support.
? Suitable for poor network connections.
? Easier to repurpose.
? Doesn?t need specialist or server knowledge to support.
? Any technical support issues only affect single users, not multiples.

Does anyone know of any others?

Cheers,
DaveRead more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:14:31 GMT98238Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/98019Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:25:43 GMT98019Virtualization + Server-Based Computinghttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/97565
I was wondering if anyone else has come up against this in relation to setting up the Brokering mechanism?

It would seem that there's not that much detail around?

Cheers,
DaveRead more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Virtualization + Server-Based Computing]]>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:11:09 GMT97565Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/97033
Wondering if anyone knows how good it is and where is the admin guide.Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:07:04 GMT97033Performance Tuning / Server Sizinghttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/95507
There seem to be a number of known issues around this area like this one:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317357/EN-US/

For many of these types of issue the workaround seems to be "Enhance system disk-write performance, and turn on write-back caching."

Problem is the hardware we are using does not support write-back caching.

Does anyone out there recognise this problem? - if we cannot enabling write-back caching then is our hardware never going to run WTS properly?

thanks,
Dave

Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Performance Tuning / Server Sizing]]>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:29:14 GMT95507Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/95025
Reasons for upgrade is clients using Windows Vista and only ICA 10 can run Vista. Please correct me if I'm wrong here but any gotcha or information regarding ICA 10 issues are welcome and thanks in advance.

Situation: CSG 2.0 ->will be upgrade to CSG 3.0 and Web Interface 3.0 -> Web Interface 4.0

Hopefully this goes well as plan but concerns with ICA 10 client.


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Forum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:14:52 GMT95025Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/94956
In our citrix presentation server 4.0 console I would like to log all changes made by our personal.

Can somebody tell me where I configure logging?

Thanks !Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:51:53 GMT94956x64 Terminal Server / Citrixhttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/94731Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:11:23 GMT94731Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/91020
It seems like you can find varying information everywhere nowadays, so rather than put all the written articles up and throw a dart at them, I figured I would post here and see what my peers are doing. Windows 2003 SP1 SP3.0

Server
HP BL20p G2 Dual 3.2 dual core
4GB RAM
2X32GB Scsi drives mirrored. C: Drive, D: Drive

Thoughts on Page File size?Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:35:17 GMT91020Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/90541
Setup is as follows:

3x HP BL30p blades, dual 3ghz HT processors, 4GB ram, 1x ATA drive (each server).
Dual gigabit connectivity to data centre network (HP teaming)

There is approximately 130 sessions across these 3 servers, running MS Office 2003 apps (word, excel outlook/exchange), SUN thin client financials, a bit of ODBC type queries (not a lot though), plus a few others.

The 3 Citrix servers ONLY host the Citrix apps. I have seperate servers for the applications, file server, database servers etc.

Most of the users use published applications, but a few use published desktops. Clients are a mix of Win 2k/xp, linux PC's and Wyse (Xp) thin terminals.

I'm having a lot of performance issues at the moment. EG a user's outlook totally stopped for 45 seconds today when he hit send on a text only email (25kb). There seems to be plenty of spare RAM (committed is at about 2.5G of 4G, but it seems there is a lot of paging going on. The disk queue also seems high.
These are both according to my metrics.

Can anyone tell me what the metrics/alerts "should" be set at for the performance counters? I've found some people's "general" recommendations on where to set the alerts, but only for a couple of the metrics. I don't know what could be "a problem" if i don't know where the counters should be at.

I'm running the following objects in resource manager:

Citrix Metaframe pres server: Data store connection failure
Logical Disk: %disk time
Logical Disk: %free space
Logical Disk: split IO/sec
Logical Disk: current disk queue length
Memory: Cache faults/sec
Memory: Committed Bytes
Memory: page faults/sec
Memory: Pages/sec
Memory: Pool nonpaged bytes
Memory: Transition faults/sec
Network interface: Bytes total/sec
Paging file: %usage
Processor: %Processor time
Processor: %inturrupt time
System: Context switches/sec
Terminal Services: Inactive sessions
Terminal Services: Active sessions

Obviously some of those (such as disk space, data store connection failure) will not have a bearing on the speed. If there's other metrics i should be monitoring, please let me know.

Any other suggestions/thoughs would ba appreciated.Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:22:52 GMT90541Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/89846
We have thirty HP BL25P G1's which are live and run just fine.

Any chance any had similar issues with these blades or have you have heard about this issue?

We have been seeing that when we ping the timings can go a bit wrong. This happens intermittently but cause all kinds of issues in Citrix.

Reply from 10.1.4.91: bytes=32 time=-1ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.1.4.91: bytes=32 time=-1ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.1.4.91: bytes=32 time=-1ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.1.4.91: bytes=32 time=-1ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.1.4.91: bytes=32 time=-1ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.1.4.91: bytes=32 time=-1ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.1.4.91: bytes=32 time=-1ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.1.4.91: bytes=32 time=-1ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.1.4.91: bytes=32 time=-1ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.1.4.91: bytes=32 time=-1ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.1.4.91: bytes=32 time=-1ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.1.4.91: bytes=32 timeRead more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:21:14 GMT89846Application Installation & Compatibilityhttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/89591Hi,

We are running a Presentation Server 4.0 farm on Windows Server 2003 (SP1), offering a.o. the Office 2003 (+SP 2) applications. The hardware platform we use are HP blades (BL20p, dual Xeon, 4 GB RAM), and we are only running about 20 users per Presentation Server. As such, the servers are not really overloaded (10% CPU on average, and over 1 GB of RAM available).

So far so good, but for some reason or another, a simple action such as copy/paste of one (lousy) cell might take up several seconds...

Has anyone ever seen such a behaviour ?

Cheers,
Kris

Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Application Installation & Compatibility]]>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:53:07 GMT89591Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/89483
We have recently rebuilt our Citrix farm using HP BL20p's and Windows 2003. We use WSUS to update are servers, and I have a group policy that runs the updates over night.

We are still using Presentation Server 4.0, but since we have gone to Windows 2003, the servers hang trying to restart the system. To get the severs working again I have to plug the Belkin Keyboard & Mouse dongle into each one, the server then kicks into life and restarts.

Any help would be appriciated.
Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:36:52 GMT89483Citrix Presentation Server / XenApphttp://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/89235
Can I take down one server at a time and set it up again and install PS 4.5 and have it runing in the same Farm as the 4.0s for a while. It will prob. take me 2 weeks to get all the servers up to 4.5 with every thing else I have to do.

Has any one done this be for and if so could you give me some pointers.

Read more:Group: Tech Support ForumsForum: Citrix Presentation Server / XenApp]]>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:08:49 GMT89235