Trentent Tye's Blog

05 Oct 2021 » Fix vCenter backup failing at 10%
06 Jun 2021 » Install a certificate in a Synology using a Microsoft CA
20 Sep 2019 » Enable Jumbo Frames in WinPE
05 Mar 2019 » Printers and their impact on logon duration
06 Feb 2019 » Citrix Logon Simulator's - Part 2
04 Feb 2019 » Citrix Logon Simulator's - Part 1
29 Oct 2018 » Citrix PVS Image Management Design Challenges - Case Study
14 Sep 2018 » Meltdown + Spectre - Performance Impact Analysis (Take 2)
30 Jun 2018 » User Profile Manager - Unavoidable Delays
02 May 2018 » Citrix Provisioning Service - Network Service Starting/Stopping services remotely
30 Apr 2018 » Meltdown + Spectre - Performance Analysis
11 Apr 2018 » Group Policy Preferences Registry Extension vs Group Policy Registry Extension
09 Apr 2018 » Group Policy - Monolithic vs Functional Design and Performance Evaluation
03 Apr 2018 » Corrupt Registry Repair with Citrix Provisioning Services
15 Jan 2018 » Meltdown - Performance Impact Evaluation (Citrix XenApp 6.5)
27 Dec 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Adventures in customization - Add a help button to your Storefront UI
22 Dec 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Adventures in customization - Default to "Store" view if you have no favourited app's
15 Dec 2017 » AppV 5 - Raiser's Edge 7.96 - Run-time error -2147024770 (800707e)
30 Nov 2017 » Citrix XenDesktop/& 7.15 - The local host cache in action
14 Nov 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Adventures in customization - Define a custom resolution for a specific application
31 Oct 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Adventures in customization - Prepopulate Explicit Logon Credentials
30 Oct 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Adventures in customization - Login via credentials in URL search query
10 Aug 2017 » Citrix Provisioning Server - PXE requests stop working
02 Aug 2017 » Citrix Provisioning Services Reverse Imaging - 2017 edition
31 Jul 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Adventures in customization - Change any ICA parameter
14 Jul 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Adventures in customization - Customization breaks in internet explorer
13 Jul 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Adventures in customization - Assign a custom clientname to an application
06 Jul 2017 » Check for NUMA within a VM guest with Powershell
28 Jun 2017 » Remove Ghost devices natively with Powershell
27 Jun 2017 » Citrix Provisioning Services Target Device Upgrade Woes
13 Jun 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Performance Testing and Tuning - Part 6 - Testing Peak Load
06 Jun 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Performance Testing and Tuning - Part 5 - Establishing a Peak Load
05 Jun 2017 » AppV5 - System Environment Variables Gotcha's
02 Jun 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Performance Testing and Tuning - Part 4 - PerfMon Counters, PNA Logon
01 Jun 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Performance Testing and Tuning - Part 3 - PerfMon Counters, browser logon
30 May 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Performance and Tuning - Part 2 - PNA Traffic simulation
24 May 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Performance Testing and Tuning - Part 1
15 May 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Adventures in customization - Query group membership from aspx
11 May 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Adventures in customization - Dynamically configure features based on group membership
10 May 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Adventures in customization - Dynamically configure authentication based on group membership
10 May 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Adventures in customization - Restrict app visibility with single factor authentication, show all apps with two-factor authentication
08 May 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Adventures in customization - Dynamically configure workspace control based on group membership
05 May 2017 » AppV5 - Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library - Error R6034
01 May 2017 » Citrix Storefront - Pass URI parameters to an application
24 Apr 2017 » Citrix StoreFront - Experiences with Storefront Customization SDK and Web API
13 Apr 2017 » ControlUp - Realtime Troubleshooting Example
13 Apr 2017 » Citrix XenApp Enumeration Performance - IMA vs FMA - oddities
12 Apr 2017 » Citrix XenApp Enumeration Performance - IMA vs FMA load testing
11 Apr 2017 » Citrix XenApp Enumeration Performance - IMA vs FMA
03 Apr 2017 » Citrix Workspace Environment Manager - Limitations (part 1?)
10 Mar 2017 » Citrix Workspace Environment Manager vs. Group Policy Preferences - Performance Story
08 Mar 2017 » Citrix Workspace Environment Manager - Second Impressions
02 Mar 2017 » Citrix Workspace Environment Manager - First Impressions
31 Jan 2017 » Tracing Citrix Provisioning Service (PVS) Target Device Boot Performance - Process Monitor
31 Jan 2017 » Tracing Citrix Provisioning Service (PVS) Target Device Boot Performance - Windows Performance Toolkit
30 Jan 2017 » ControlUp - Script Based Action (SBA) Action Auditing
05 Jan 2017 » Lets Make PVS Target Device Booting Great Again (Part 2)
30 Dec 2016 » Lets Make PVS Target Device Booting Great Again (Part 1)
13 Dec 2016 » AppV5 - 0xFD01F25-0x2 and deciphering some of these messages
07 Dec 2016 » Citrix Netscaler 11.1 Unified Gateway and a non-working Citrix HTML5 Receiver
31 Oct 2016 » AppV 5.1 Sequencer - Not capturing all registry keys - Update
31 Oct 2016 » Windows Update - 0x80070308 ERROR_REQUEST_OUT_OF_SEQUENCE
21 Oct 2016 » AppV5 - Citrix User Profile Manager exclusions
21 Oct 2016 » Office Deployment Toolkit - taking a look
21 Oct 2016 » AppV5 - Connection groups, an example
19 Oct 2016 » Windows Update - Errors 80070057, 800736B3, 8024400E
21 Sep 2016 » AppV5 - Applications being published to "C:\App-V Packages" instead of %PACKAGEINSTALLATIONROOT%
20 Sep 2016 » AppV 5.1 Sequencer - Not capturing all registry keys
15 Sep 2016 » Examining Logon Durations with Control Up - Profile Load Time
08 Sep 2016 » ControlUp - Dissecting Logon Times a step further (invalid Home Directory impact)
31 Aug 2016 » ControlUp - Dissecting Logon Times a step further (Printer loading)
26 Aug 2016 » ControlUp - List AppV5 recent events on various servers
24 Aug 2016 » Troubleshooting application error "No Microsoft Outlook profiles have been created"
23 Aug 2016 » Using ControlUp to launch a Citrix application published on a server
22 Aug 2016 » Citrix XenApp 6.5 SDK silent install command
13 Aug 2016 » Using VMWare Remote Console with ControlUp
03 Aug 2016 » About the XenApp 6.5 Group Policy Client Side Extensions (CSE)
30 Jul 2016 » Microsoft Patch (KB3170455) breaks PrintBRM importing printers with drivers
22 Jul 2016 » Citrix XenApp - Graphical Artifacts
14 Jul 2016 » Citrix Client Side Extensions 1.7.6+ breaks policies
04 Jul 2016 » Citrix XenApp 6.5 - IMA errors galore, mfcom won't start
17 Jun 2016 » Citrix Netscaler - Load balancing options with XML brokers
15 Jun 2016 » Microsoft Office - Your mailbox is currently being optimized as part of upgrading to Outlook 2010
13 Jun 2016 » Citrix PVS 7.7 VHD to VHDX performance difference
31 May 2016 » EventID 6003 - The winlogon notification subscriber was unavailable to handle a critical notification event.
13 May 2016 » Citrix Provisioning Services - Convert your VHD's to VHDX
13 May 2016 » Citrix Provisioning Services 7.7 - Unable to mount VHD files
21 Apr 2016 » Multi-homed server, lock ICA and RDP to a specific NIC
19 Apr 2016 » Automatically Defrag your Citrix PVS vDisks
12 Apr 2016 » Silent Install of Citrix PVS Target Device software
06 Apr 2016 » ConvertFrom-MCLI for PVS 7.6 POSH module
05 Apr 2016 » Citrix Provisioning Services - Updating VMWare Tools and Target Device software - with all native tools
30 Mar 2016 » AppV5 - Package {GUID} version {GUID} failed configuration in folder '%packageinstallationroot% with error 0x4C40310C-0x12
24 Mar 2016 » AppV5 - The trouble with AppV5 logs (and a solution!)
17 Mar 2016 » AppV5 - Package fails to load with error 0x79100E100-0xC (Starring Procmon)
14 Mar 2016 » WSUS clients fail with WARNING: Exceeded max server round trips: 0x80244010
11 Mar 2016 » AppV5 - Sequencing Logibec eClinibase
19 Jan 2016 » Citrix Director 7.7 is giving me artifacts!
15 Jan 2016 » Citrix Director 7.7 & XenApp 6.5
19 Dec 2015 » Help! My Citrix application is running slow (Meditech, Citrix, Imprivata)
04 Dec 2015 » AppV5 - Sequencing an application that has Com+ Applications
27 Nov 2015 » AppV5 - When Application Compatibility Toolkit doesn't work
27 Nov 2015 » AppV5 - Using Application Compatibility Toolkit to solve issues
26 Oct 2015 » Force Internet Explorer 10 or 11 to always use 64bit version
20 Oct 2015 » AppV5 - Integrating Certificates into your AppV package
27 Sep 2015 » AppV5 - Sequencing Oracle 11g R2
23 Sep 2015 » Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 12 virus definition download and installation script
21 Sep 2015 » Troubleshooting Citrix Desktop Service - "The Citrix Desktop Service is starting." and then nothing.
11 Sep 2015 » PNP_DETECTED_FATAL_ERROR
04 Sep 2015 » Performance differences in Citrix HDX Thinwire Encoders
04 Sep 2015 » Change Citrix HDX Encoder on the fly for testing
01 Sep 2015 » Citrix XenApp. OpenGL pass-through and Nvidia GRID cards on Amazon EC2 (G2 Instances)
24 Jul 2015 » Citrix Seamless Flags and their impact
10 Jul 2015 » AppV5 - Virtualizing and running Local Services stand-alone
09 Jul 2015 » Citirx Universal Print Server - More Zebra label printer troubleshooting tips
09 Jul 2015 » Citrix Universal Print Server - Troubleshooting printing blank pages or inconsistent printing.
08 Jul 2015 » AppV5 - Prelaunch Script for Citrix XenApp 6.5 applications with varying environments
03 Jul 2015 » AppV5 - Recipe for Epic 2012
03 Jul 2015 » AppV5 - Recipe for ScreenTest III
03 Jul 2015 » AppV5 - Post install sequencing steps
03 Jul 2015 » AppV5 - Sequencing first steps
03 Jul 2015 » Setting up a PVS AppV5 sequencer
01 Jul 2015 » AppV5 - Be mindful of application integrations'
26 Jun 2015 » Crystal Reports 13 and AppV 5 have issues
09 Apr 2015 » Install 64bit Windows OS (7+) on older 64bit Mac's (2007 32bit EFI white MacBook)
27 Mar 2015 » HPSIM - Disable system monitoring for 1 hour
24 Mar 2015 » APPV5 - Sequencing FolioView ICD/CCI with AppV5. (Issues with VFS not redirecting)
20 Mar 2015 » AppV5 - Data Precache script
20 Mar 2015 » PVS Target Device Update Script - Supplemental File, disableddnsregistration.ps1
20 Mar 2015 » PVS Target Device Update Script - Supplemental File, Update_Tools.ps1
20 Mar 2015 » PVS Target Device Update Script - Supplemental File, 1_pre-get_partition_and_netinfo.cmd / 2_post-remove_nonpresent_hardware_v33.cmd
20 Mar 2015 » PVS Target Device Update Script - Supplemental File, WindowsUpdate.cmd / updatehfs.vbs
20 Mar 2015 » Citrix PVS Target Device Update script
20 Mar 2015 » This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.
04 Mar 2015 » AppV5 - Package failed configuration in folder with error 0xA040132A-0x3
20 Feb 2015 » APPV5 - Virtualization Template
18 Feb 2015 » Using Process Monitor to make an application installer for 16bit .exe's
05 Feb 2015 » Becareful of your AVHD to VHD chains with Citrix PVS with multiple sites
22 Jan 2015 » How important is it to launch your application in a AppV package while sequencing?
05 Jan 2015 » Awesome blog to follow
15 Dec 2014 » AppV 5 - Measuring RegistryStaging load times
28 Nov 2014 » Exploring the Citrix XML 6.5 Broker in more detail
28 Nov 2014 » Best Windows Network Bandwidth Simulator Emulator Jitter Latency software
27 Nov 2014 » Load testing Citrix XML broker
27 Nov 2014 » Optimizing Citrix Web Interface 5.4
24 Nov 2014 » Slow Citrix Web Interface 5.4 on ASPX pages (or how to load test your WI)
17 Nov 2014 » AppV 5 first launch application performance
16 Oct 2014 » Unable to launch /appvve switch via XenApp 6.5
03 Oct 2014 » Group Policy Preferences - Scheduled Task fails to apply
26 Sep 2014 » Quick Hit - ICA-TCP#0 and disconnected sessions
16 Sep 2014 » AppV 5 - Unable to launch applications but other users can launch without issue
04 Sep 2014 » Powershell script to update some sysinternals tools and wireshark
04 Sep 2014 » AppV5 - Update files in an already mounted package
03 Sep 2014 » Installing Oculus Rift SDK on Windows Server OS (or bypass the product type check with most apps)
27 Aug 2014 » Citrix Desktop Director "The system is currently unavailable. Please try again or contact your administrator."
26 Aug 2014 » Updating AppV 5 package files without resequencing
15 Aug 2014 » AppV 5 - Formatted volume allocation size matters
14 Aug 2014 » AppV 5 - changing PackageInstallationRoot impacts AppVPackageDrive variable
14 Aug 2014 » AppV 5 - minimum mounted file size is 64KB, size of packages is misrepresented on 2008R2/Windows 7
12 Aug 2014 » AppV 5 - Short file names are not created after publishing a new version of an application
05 Aug 2014 » AppV 5 - .NetFramework applications that only work with 32bit .NetFramework architecture
16 Jul 2014 » Quick one-liner to change vDisk on devices
15 Jul 2014 » Call PowerShell from CMD.exe and a application-prelaunch script that logs the user off when the application is exited.
14 Jul 2014 » Extend disk space on a VMWare PVS system
20 Jun 2014 » AppV 5 registry keys not applying when set in DynamicConfiguration.xml
10 Jun 2014 » AppV 5 Shared Content Store performance profiled vs. local disk
03 Jun 2014 » PVAD, Connection Groups, AppV 5
21 May 2014 » How To Convert a 16MB block size PVS VHD to a 2MB PVS VHD file using Hyper-V
15 May 2014 » How to globally set Java settings
06 May 2014 » Microsoft Disable-AppvClient.ps1
04 May 2014 » AppV 5.0 SP2 HotFix 4 (HF4)
24 Apr 2014 » Citrix, Internet Explorer and AppV
22 Apr 2014 » Problems.txt file in Citrix Receiver 4.0/4.1 reports "Error 500"
21 Apr 2014 » Slow screen refresh with Citrix Receiver 4.0 or 4.1 with old Citrix Farms
18 Apr 2014 » EdgeSight Load Testing with a Single User account (& 6.5)
10 Apr 2014 » Move ALL Windows 7/2008/2012 log files to another drive
28 Feb 2014 » Install VMWare drivers offline into a Citrix PVS vDisk
25 Feb 2014 » Time how long a WMI filter call takes
30 Jan 2014 » Install AppV 5.0 Server via silent install
17 Dec 2013 » Slow PowerShell CSV reading and object generation
20 Nov 2013 » Microsoft and Citrix putting pictures of scripts in documents...
15 Nov 2013 » Error launching batch file from within AppV 5 bubble
23 Oct 2013 » Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) update failure
15 Oct 2013 » PowerCLI Fix VMWare Time Sync issue
25 Sep 2013 » IMA Service Fails with the Following Events: 3989, 3634, 3614
18 Sep 2013 » HyperV 2012 R2 "Enhanced Session Mode"
20 Aug 2013 » Query a bunch of Windows 2003 event logs
19 Aug 2013 » Windows Server 2012 R2 cache drive size for parity drives
08 Aug 2013 » Testing Windows Storage Spaces Performance on Windows 2012 R2
22 Jul 2013 » An error occurred while making the requested connection - Citrix Web Interface
17 Jul 2013 » Powershell script to compare Citrix Webinterface files
17 Jul 2013 » Import-Csv -header $variable
16 Jul 2013 » Utilizing MCLI.exe to comment the newest version of a vDisk on Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS)
12 Jul 2013 » Nice post about making Charts in PowerShell
10 Jul 2013 » Troubleshooting Audio issues in Citrix &
08 Jul 2013 » Powershell script to manipulate "Register this connection's addresses in DNS"
11 Jun 2013 » How to enable "Adaptive Display" in XenApp 6.5
31 May 2013 » SCVMM Install VM components Failed
29 May 2013 » Manually add Windows startup scripts (or inject startup scripts into an offline image)
27 May 2013 » (OS 10061)No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. Unable to connect to the CGP tunnel destination (127.0.0.1 1494)
23 May 2013 » Enable advanced logging on the XTE service of a XenApp server
22 May 2013 » Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) 6.1 - Automatic vDisk Update "Update device failed to shutdown within the timeout period."
16 May 2013 » ERROR 0x8024402c Windows Update
14 May 2013 » Corrupted VHD files
09 May 2013 » AppV Error 25109 - The installation program could not create the configuration data store. Please see the installation log file for more information.
03 May 2013 » Execute Windows XP klist.exe purge without user intervention
01 May 2013 » Citrix PVS bootup failure with the Boot Device Management ISO
30 Apr 2013 » Remotely updating AppV 4.6 apps with PSEXEC
29 Apr 2013 » You receive error code 41495 when you try to start the Microsoft SoftGrid Virtual Application Server service
25 Apr 2013 » Reboot Server and PVS Streaming Service is started but the console shows the service is down
18 Apr 2013 » AppV 4.6SP2 lies about the registry
15 Apr 2013 » (OS 10061)No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. Unable to connect to the CGP tunnel destination (127.0.0.1 1494)
08 Mar 2013 » Citrix HDX Engine has encountered a problem and needs to close we are sorry for the inconvenience.
05 Mar 2013 » AppV 5 - Force a global refresh
05 Mar 2013 » Slow Group Policy Client Side Extensions login with Windows 7
27 Feb 2013 » Click the PVS Target Device Optimizer button with AutoIt
25 Feb 2013 » AppV 5 Precache script
25 Feb 2013 » KMS issue with PVS after an Office install
21 Feb 2013 » AppV 5 issues
01 Feb 2013 » Powershell script to find user login times
30 Jan 2013 » Data Recovery
22 Jan 2013 » Internet Explorer Maintenance Odd Behaviour
15 Jan 2013 » Internet Explorer popping up outside the App-V Bubble
08 Jan 2013 » Modify XML files with PowerShell (for manipulating AppV)
17 Nov 2012 » Windows 8 iSCSI
14 Nov 2012 » iSCSI, iPXE, Microsoft iSCSI Software Target, Microsoft DHCP
12 Nov 2012 » Loopback iSCSI targets (aka, Target Error on iSCSI Initiator)
30 Oct 2012 » Debug AppV package by opening a command prompt
24 Oct 2012 » Creating a batch file that accepts parameters
13 Sep 2012 » ESXi 5.1 on MacBook 4,1
04 Sep 2012 » ESXi 5 on older MacBook 4,1
09 Jul 2012 » Enable RemoteApp on Server 2008/Windows 7
07 Jun 2012 » Retrieving Citrix user accounts via PowerShell
16 May 2012 » Query remote registry for My Documents location
14 May 2012 » Creating shares remotely using PowerShell
10 Apr 2012 » Domain Controller doesn't replicate DNS and has other replication issues
29 Mar 2012 » List of exportable AD attributes
13 Mar 2012 » AppV and Application Compatibility
05 Mar 2012 » Utilizing PowerShell to make Citrix VM Templates
05 Mar 2012 » Citrix IMA service issues
29 Feb 2012 » Issue with Folder Redirection (Error 267)
16 Feb 2012 » Registry keys needed to set a default server Exchange server for Outlook
15 Feb 2012 » Purposeful limitations
31 Jan 2012 » PowerShell to Clone VM's
11 Jan 2012 » Cool PowerShell commands for manipulating XenApp
18 Nov 2011 » Group Creation Script
18 Nov 2011 » Count Characters in a Batch File
25 Oct 2011 » Cool tool!
14 Oct 2011 » LDAP query for *just* users
15 Sep 2011 » Change file shares via scripting
13 Sep 2011 » Saving and restoring ACL's on OU's
26 Aug 2011 » Issue with WSH (Scripting.FileSystemObject 800A01AD)
23 Aug 2011 » Watch the folder redirect log live
28 Jul 2011 » Generate a CSV from your GPO's per OU
13 Jul 2011 » XP - Slow user login, constant prompts for accessing file shares
11 Jul 2011 » Find all OU's and what GPO's are linked to them
08 Jul 2011 » ADFind one-liner -> Find operating system of computer in AD
06 Jul 2011 » Set home directories even if it's a hidden share
28 Jun 2011 » AD Script to Link GPOs via the command line
03 May 2011 » invalid pxe server list format - Altiris
29 Apr 2011 » Configure Local Group Policy via the command line
19 Apr 2011 » Maya and rendering priorities
12 Dec 2010 » Windows Backup Error 0x81000019
02 Dec 2010 » DataRAM RAM Disk Review (part 2)
02 Dec 2010 » Dataram RAMDisk Review
14 Oct 2010 » Getting NTBackup working in WinPE 3.0
15 Sep 2010 » Remotely wake computers when the network doesn't pass Magic Packets
08 Sep 2010 » Querying HKEY_CURRENT_USER remotely