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Citrix have released (and even re-released) whole slew of updates in the past few weeks that finally get’s a feature of Presentation Server working that’s close to my heart – high colour icons. Yes, high colour icons – the single most important feature that Citrix could add to Presentation Server! Forget application streaming, the new [...]
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During testing of Adobe Reader 8 on a new Presentation Server 4.0 farm, I tested Adobe Reader 8 as a published application in a seamless window, using the ICA Client 9.230.50211. When using the toolbars in the published application (right clicking on the toolbars or clicking any of the drop down items) the application would [...]
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Every six to eight months or so, I have an issue logging onto a Terminal Server and then have to research the issue each time from scratch because I can’t remember how I fixed it. Here’s how it starts – after logging onto a Terminal Server I receive the following helpful error message: To log [...]
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Like all ridiculously expensive software we love to hate, the SAP GUI does not use standard Windows print queues to send print jobs, but implementes a printing method they call SAPLPD instead. This is launched by a process that looks to be external to the SAP GUI component and does not respect the working directory [...]
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If the Citrix Program Neighbourhood Agent is slow to connect to the PNAgent web service and then takes time to display a list of applications, it’s probably related to folder redirection of the Application Data folder. Program Neighbourhood Agent, by default, stores cache information in the following folder: %APPDATA%\Citrix\PNAgent\AppCache Redirecting Application Data to the network [...]
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I’ve just spent yesterday and today working on a site where the client had a need to run both the Microsoft Java VM and the Sun Java VM on their Terminal Servers. (The Microsoft Java VM is used for one site only, yes developers strike again). I was pretty happy when I was able to [...]
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Always an interesting discussion around the traps is that of how much memory to install in Terminal Servers. Due to the nature of Terminal Server and limitations of the 32bit architecture, kernel address space will be exhausted before a Terminal Server will run out of RAM (depending on the number of users, of course). Brian [...]
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I’ll file this under “Stupid Things I Didn’t Know”. Citrix Presentation Server relies on the PATH variable for core components to run. I was adding to the PATH variable, in a scripted build after the CPS install and before a reboot, with a command like this: C:\REG ADD “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment” /v Path /d “%PATH%;%ProgramFiles%\Sysinternals” /f [...]
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