AGEE login box and issue with IE compatibility mode.

When we try to open AGEE page via Firefox , login screen is at center to some extent.

But when we try to open the same page using IE, UI is not properly lay out

Solution : Press F12 and bring IE into normal mode if it is compatibility mode.

Pre-populate Desktop Director domain field

I have wrote this article way back for DD version 2.x. With XD 7.1  desktop director has interface has been changed. To prepopulate domain field like

 

we have to make changes in LogOn.aspx file and replace “RoyDomainNetBiosName” .

IIS reset is a must post this change

3 steps to enable Auditing on Citrix Provisioning Server

We need to find out the way to track changes made on PVS server or datastore. For that first enable this auditing at farm level

Then check for the changes made by selecting Audit trail. This can be checked at every level.

Now you can see all the changes which are made.

Cannot connect to hypervisor at : No Active hosts found

We were trying to provision XD via PVS 7.1 . Host connection were configured for ESX 5.o update 2. While running XD setup wizard , it was able to establish connection with VC

But it was not able to get the VM template

 

Upon reviewing VC we found that there were few datacenter without any host added to it. We gave XD service account exclusive rights on only respective DC and that way I was able to complete setup wizard.

Source

How to present home drive and set Quota for Citrix provisioned desktop

When we use roaming profile we follow best practice suggested by Microsoft for roaming profile which is listed here. This redirected folder is presented as home drive to the end users. So say suppose company has a guideline to limit users home drive , then in that case we must limit this using quota.

We recommend to use different shares for home drive and profiles so that it would be easy to redirect everything and set quota. I usually present redirect folder as users home drive. This is achieve via GPO

 

So when user login he will see his home drive like this

To achieve this we decided to use windows 2012 and take benefits of SMB3 . I am not going to explain how to setup DFS here. There are tons of article on the net. What I am going to explain here is how we can setup desire quota for each users.

Windows 2012 have two console for quota setting

And other via FSRM

For quota setting we need to use FSRM . So lets start using FSRM and define hard quota for 5GB. We need to create custom template with Hard quota. Soft quota does trigger alert and all but hard quota does not.

Once template is ready go to the quota section and select create quota

Path to quota will be root where I will be storing all the users data . In my case share path name is data which is mention above. Make sure you select “Auto apply template and create quotas on existing and new subfolders”. Here under drop down you will see custom quota created earlier. After applying create , don’t forget to exist and report FSRM. I had challenge  because I was trying to refresh using FSRM. Once quota is set this is how it will looks like

Here you can modify quota for individual users

So what permission do I need?

Make sure share has following permission set on the shares

And this permission is in place

Make sure you enable access based enumeration to prevent users from seeing or accessing others folder

This will allow user to see home drive with quota along with  respective permission.

Tata Bye bye till next time