Entries by Ingmar Verheij

(Microsoft) Vendor specific DHCP options explained and demystified

/by

DHCP servers can send vendor specific options to clients to granularly control configuration. Microsoft clients are out-of-the-box prepared to receive Microsoft Windows specific options while Microsoft DHCP servers have the ability to send DHCP options only received by Windows clients. Some applications use the content of a DHCP option to receive configuration data, for example […]

Read DHCP options received by the client

/by

When a DHCP client receives information from a DHCP server only basic information, like IP / subnet / gateway / dns /etc, is visible. In some situations clients also receive DHCP options to set specific settings or application configurations (for example with Microsoft Lync or RES Workspace Manager). Knowing what options are received by the […]

Configure Citrix Session Printer via PowerShell

/by

In a previous article I explained how you can set Citrix (domain) policies via PowerShell. In one of the comments I got a question from Tony who wanted to set Session Printers. In this article I’ll explain how this is done. In the article I will first show a quick example and then show some […]

“Management Interface: VHD Error” with PVS and DFSR

/by

You might encounter the following error when you use Microsoft DFSR to replicate the vDisk store in your Citrix PVS when uploading a vDisk: Using a staging vDisk store helps preventing this error. Ingmar VerheijWas once an enthusiastic PepperByte employee but is now working at Citrix. His blogs are still valuable to us and we […]

Unattended RES WM2012 agent does not store Relay Server configuration with UAC enabled

/by

When RES Workspace Manger 2012 is installed unattended and configured to connect to a Relay Server, and User Account Control (UAC) is enabled, the configuration is not stored. As a result the agent is unmanaged. After extensive testing I found the solution to solve this issue. PS: This applies for both SR2 and SR3 (release […]

Monitor Atlantis ILIO via SNMP

/by

Atlantis ILIO Center can monitor the health and availability of ILIO Session- and Replication hosts. If necessary ILIO Center sends alerts via SMTP (aka Mail) or via a SNMP trap (push). However, if the ILIO Center experiences an unexpected shutdown or network connectivity is lost, a SNMP trap is never sent (or in case of […]

Citrix Mobility Paris 13

/by

On April 4th this year Citrix announced that no Synergy would be held in Europe, unlike previous years, and a new approach for the customer conference strategy was introduced: multiple regional mobility events.The article insinuated that Synergy Europe was replaced with the local conferences, starting with three mobility events (in Paris, Munich and London). Today […]

Virtual desktop word bingo (XenDesktop 7)

/by

In my previous article you’ve read about my aversion against the term VDI. The introduction of Citrix XenDesktop 7 showed us that delivery of  applications and desktops from shared and private computers are now integrated in one product. This requires us to explain the difference between shared versus private instead of XenApp versus XenDesktop, so […]

Virtual desktop word bingo (stop using VDI)

/by

I have developed a strong aversion against the term “VDI”. Basically because customers don’t understand what VDI means, caused by the simple fact that the people who explain this to the customers (the people in IT) don’t understand it either. The term VDI is roughly 7 years old. Back then we presumed it was the […]

Review of Denamik Analyzer

/by

Denamik introduces the Denamik Analyzer, an add-on to the Denamik LoadGen product. With Denamik LoadGen one can perform load- and stress tests on hosted shared and hosted private infrastructures like Citrix XenApp and XenDestop. While the LoadGen executes a test and gathers data about the performance metrics and response times, visualizing and analyzing the data […]