Recognize that toolbar? It's the Desktop Toolbar and it's pretty useful - when you're using a Desktop resource. If you're using a Seamless Published Application, it's a nuisance if it's not configured properly. And what's properly? Configuring the Desktop Toolbar to only show with Desktop resources and not showing for published applications allowing them to run properly in Seamless Mode. To do this, follow these general steps. On your Web Interface server, backup the current configuration. I recommend copying the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\citrix\xenapp\ folder somewhere else for safekeeping

The newest version of Citrix XenServer is now available. Version 6.0, referred to as "Project Boston" has been made available on Citrix.com Click Here for the official page. Some notable features and changes include: Workload Balancing is now available a virtual appliance for ease of use. New Self-Service Manager feature allows for easy creation of Private Cloud environments that includes support for both XenServer and VMware vSphere. Lab Manager superseded by SSM XenServer hosts and guests can now be managed with System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012. HDX Enha

When using the Citrix XenDesktop Setup Wizard on your Provisioning Services server, you may encounter this error when creating new virtual desktops from a template. Unable to create the desktop DESKTOPNAME. Unable to clone the virtual machine for this desktop. Exception thrown : SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_44 Unable to provision a vDisk for the desktop. This error often appears when there is no longer sufficient space on your Storage Repository to clone the VM Template. To resolve this, either remove the storage requirement from your template (if it's not needed) or add additional space to the des

As an administrator of both XenDesktop and XenApp environments, I'm absolutely sick of multiple consoles. I've finally managed to easily integrate XenDesktop and XenApp administration into a single console (AMC). Unfortunately, we're unable to integrate the "Presentation Server Console" that is still used for manging policies. While alternative methods may exist, I know the following steps will work. On your XenDesktop 3.0 Media, run autorun.exe Select Install Optional Components. Install Management Consoles. Install XDE300AMC004 (Download here). Open the Access Management Conso

Citrix has released a new version of the Virtual Desktop Agent for XenDesktop 3.0 (Not Feature Pack 1). In this new version, the file copy process between target and endpoint device has been improved. Time last Modified and Accessed will be properly updated when copying between devices. Also, mapped network drives on the endpoint device will now be properly mapped on the target device (A fix welcome by all). For those who use Registry-based Desktop Delivery Controller Discovery on their target devices, registration should now complete properly and consistently. Other fixes and the downlo

Only 5 days after Citrix released XDE310VDA003, VDA004 was released. It fixes a total of 28 issues, many of which have plagued XenDesktop users. This recent trend of hot fixing is comforting and worrysome - so many issues with XenDesktop, but on the other hand, Citrix is fixing them relatively quickly. Some fix examples: Disconnecting from an RDP session can cause a Virtual Desktop Agent running on Windows XP to become unresponsive or to restart. After installing Version 3.1 (Build 3231) of the virtual desktop agent on Windows XP, the Citrix Audio Service fails to start. After in

On Saturday Citrix released a new version of the Citrix Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA) for XenDesktop 3.0 Feature Pack 1. It upgrades version 3.1.3236 to 3.1.3241 via XDE310VDA003. All in all there are 22 fixes in this release; 7 fixes for the previous hotfix, and 15 new fixes. Usually I would recommend waiting a while before applying a hotfix unless you experience one of the issues addressed, but most XenDesktop environments will suffer from at least one of these. Virtual Desktop Agents fail to register with Desktop Delivery Controllers located in separate Active Directory farms. This fi

While I'm sure many are still struggling to get XenDesktop working properly with a VMWare ESX hosting infrastructure and vSphere 4, Citrix is still hard at work pumping out fixes for it. Yesterday, Citrix released a hotfix for Citrix Pool Management which updates it to 3.0.3068 using hotfix XDE300PM002. The Citrix Pool manager can now reconnect to ESX after losing network connectivity or if Virtual Center restarts. It also fixes an issue with the previous hotfix where you could not import virtual machines through pool management if using vSphere 4. Get the hotfix and read the release

Yesterday Citrix released a new version of the Citrix XenDesktop Setup Wizard. The Setup Wizard is the tool used to provision Virtual Machines for use with XenDesktop. It creates the VM using a template, names it according to your specified convention, adds the target device to the Provisioning Server database, creates the Active Directory Machine Account, and then places the VM in the desired Desktop Group. Previously, there was an issue when you attempted to query vSphere 4 for VM Templates in order to provision new VMs. According to Citrix, this issue was fixed in CTX122057 as part of Ci

After many have voiced their opinion about Citrix's lack of support for VMWare's vSphere 4 product with XenDesktop 3.0, Citrix has released "Citrix Pool Management, Version 3.0.3061 (XDE300PM001)." CPM 3.0.3061 adds support for vSphere 4 for use with XenDesktop 3.0. Voiced Concerns:  http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=246967&tstart=0 http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX121997