Archive for February, 2008

Citrix sessions hangs at mapping client drives

Today I had a strange issue with one of my Citrix Terminal Servers. New connections would suddenly hang at the “mapping client drives” It took ages to login through a normal RDP session. Scouwering the Citrix support forum gave me some useful tips…

Redundant Citrix license server article by Wilco van Bragt

Excellent article by Wilco on the needs for a redundant Citrix License Server and if so, how you would create a fault tolerant License Server in various ways.

Easy folder to iso creator utility

I came by this handy tool so I thought: let’s share it with everybody..!

Article on using virtual failover servers as a disaster recovery method

Frane wrote a great article on how to implement virtualization in such a way,  so it can be used as an easy to implement disaster recovery method (even when using physical servers!)

Movie: ICA (Speedscreen) vs RDP

Check out this awesome movie, which shows ICA Speedscreen vs RDP..kudo’s to the maker..: ICA vs RDP Movie

Script to automatically install print drivers

A while back I read the “managing print drivers” document by Wilco van Bragt.  The document inspired me to take a good and hard look at our print environment. We were using the Citrix ”Printer Management” feature at that time which always reminded me of the movie “The Hunt for Red October“: Once you started using it, at [...]

Dilbert Virtualization funny

Script to set the Citrix Load Evaluator

There are more ways than one to denying users access to your Citrix Servers..! I searched through numerous forums trying to find a script that would assign a load evaluator to a Citrix server…the ones I found didn’t seem to work in our enviroment

Problems with viewing helpfiles (chm) on the network

If you have problems with showing .chm files (page cannot displayed errors when opening chm files) you might want to checkout these articles: