by Theresa Miller | Feb 25, 2014 | Citrix, Citrix Powershell, Virtualization
Sometimes Citrix application servers that are automatically rebooted through Citrix Server Policy can become hung during the process and marked with logins disabled. When this happens the users were weaned from the server, but the server didn’t actually reboot. As...
by Theresa Miller | Feb 18, 2014 | Citrix, Citrix Powershell, Citrix Printing Basics Series, Virtualization
Tip # 5 Automatically Restart Print Services on a Citrix XenApp Applications Servers On a Citrix application server this would be the Citrix Print Service and the Print Spooler service. To locate these settings on Windows 2008 server go to Start, Control Panel,...
by Theresa Miller | Feb 10, 2014 | Citrix, Citrix Printing Basics Series, Virtualization
Tip # 4 Do not allow automatic installation of printer drivers: If you have not restricted this setting users will be able to install their own printer drivers on your Citrix application servers. If you are going to take the initiative to clean up the printer...
by Theresa Miller | Feb 4, 2014 | Citrix, Citrix Printing Basics Series, Virtualization
Tip # 3 Limit the number of Printer Drivers on your Citrix Application Servers: This one is easier said than done, but is worth the effort in relation to benefit to the end-user experience. I have found that if you are planning for a new Citrix XenApp farm this is...
by Theresa Miller | Jan 13, 2014 | Citrix, Citrix Powershell, Virtualization
If your Citrix environment is similar to most you may be rebooting your servers on an interval. In my case we have Citrix policies and a reboot script that will reboot all of our Citrix servers every week. Just because there are policies in place doesn’t mean that...