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Troubleshooting Citrix XenApp??

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Troubleshooting Citrix XenApp??

Overview of this book

Citrix XenApp® is an application virtualization product from Citrix. It allows users to connect to their corporate applications from various computer systems and even mobile devices. XenApp® has grown into a complex software with ever-expanding infrastructures in place. Together with tight integrations with other systems such as Terminal Services, Active Directory, and other third-party authentication services, troubleshooting XenApp® has become more complicated. This book teaches you how to approach troubleshooting complex issues with XenApp® deployments and understand the problem, find a fix or workaround, determine the root cause, and apply corrective steps wherever applicable. The book progresses to give you an idea about the many supportive components that play an important role in XenApp’s application delivery model and should be considered while troubleshooting XenApp® issues. It also shows you standard troubleshooting processes so that you can resolve complex XenApp® issues in a mission critical environment. By the end of this book, you will see how and where to use supportive components that help minimize XenApp® issues. Also, we’ll explain various tools that can be useful when monitoring and optimizing entire application and desktop delivery model.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Examples of XenApp® issues


Now, we are well aware about what information we should collect before we begin troubleshooting XenApp issues. As per the best practices, all XenApp issues come under some categories, a node where we faced issues, and these categories are listed as:

  • Citrix installation issues:

    • XenApp installation issues

    • Storefront installation issues

  • XenApp component issues:

    • IMA service failures

    • ICA session connectivity problems

    • Data store corruption

  • Profile issues:

    • Windows user profile errors

    • Folder redirection

    • Group policy and registry problems

  • Printing issues:

    • Citrix Print Driver/Policy Failures

    • Citrix Print Manager service crashes

Let's have some real-life examples of XenApp issues.

Citrix installation issues

Often, while installing Citrix XenApp roles such as XenApp Server Role, License Server, and Web Interface Server, we face various installation failures. Let's take a look at a few examples.

Scenario 1 – XenApp® installation fails

You are a Citrix Administrator installing Citrix XenApp 6...