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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)

Infrastructure issues


In Citrix XenApp, to run smooth operations, we should definitely consider all those infrastructure components which play an important role in building an enterprise-grade Citrix XenApp environment.

Even unknowingly, we might miss an infrastructure component while designing or building the XenApp architecture. This might result in pain for our operations team.

Before any XenApp implementation, if we follow the proper solution path, then our XenApp farm will work smoothly after the deployment.

Let's see some examples of infrastructure related issues from a Citrix XenApp environment.

Domain Controller issues with Citrix XenApp®

The Domain Controller is one of the most important components in the Citrix XenApp environment for user authentication.

Scenario 1 – Applications are unable to launch from one domain in the multi-domain XenApp® environment

In the following diagram, users from the Mumbai domain are able to launch the applications successfully; however, users from the London...