Richard Parmiter

IMA crash & CriticalSectionTimeout value

RP — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:08:01 +0000

I have been experiencing some strange crashes of the following services: Citrix Independent Management Architecture (IMA) - ImaSrv.exe Citrix Print Manager Service - CpSvc.exe These were happenning on a Windows 2003 x64 Standard Edition R2 server with Citrix XenApp 4.5 R04. While investigating the problems I also noted the following error while trying to open task manager. Either CTRL-SHIFT-ESC, [...]

File Name Warning: There is a file or folder on your computer called c:\program causing problems. Rename?

RP — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:00:52 +0000

Have seen the following error while logging onto a server: File Name Warning There is a file or folder on your computer called “c:\program” which could cause certain applications to not function correctly. Renaming it to “c:\program1″ would solve this problem. Would you like to rename it now? Rename | Ignore This error occurred on a server that has [...]

Easy way to remove the Microsoft Office document image writer printer

RP — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:45:06 +0000

By default, when Office 2003 is installed, the Microsoft Office document image writer appears in the printers folder, as shown: Here is a really easy way of removing the Microsoft Office document image writer printer via a script. cscript c:\windows\system32\prnmngr.vbs -d -p “Microsoft Office Document Image Writer” This can be added to a build sctipt if needed.

Citrix ICA client build version numbers

RP — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:24:11 +0000

The Citrix Access Management Console gives the ability to show the client build number version for connected sessions and this is useful to see if you have any old clients out there. The version number displayed, however, is not how we would want to see it. It only displays the final build version and not [...]

Debugging with Windbg

RP — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:05:15 +0000

If you have crash dump files, the only real way to debug them is by using windbg. This can be installed as part of the Windows debugging tools for 32 bit or 64 bit. The symbols paths need to be set correctly to correctly identify the relevant information. This can be done for Microsoft and Citrix [...]

Script variable trimming

RP — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:18:36 +0000

Suppose you are trying to run some scripts based on a command line variable, but the variable being passed to it is surrounded by quote marks. i.e. “device_name” when all i want is device_name There is an easy way to trim this. In the script need to set this passed variable to a seperate variable, and then [...]

Script to export all the servers in a Citrix Farm

RP — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:04:04 +0000

Sometimes it is useful to have a list of servers in a text file in order to perform some other task. The following script will export all servers from a Citrix Farm and add them to a text file. This script uses the built in Citrix tool, qfarm, and cleans up the output to provide the [...]

MFCOM script to export the current users of an application

RP — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:46:29 +0000

Sometimes is is necessary to have a list of users in a text file of which other scripts can be run. In this case I wanted a list of all users currently logged into a specific Citrix application in order to perform some other task. The following MFCOM script will export all the users currently logged [...]

Restricting some sites in Internet Explorer

RP — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:55:29 +0000

When it comes to providing Internet Explorer access from a Citrix Server, trying to lock it down can be tricky. Sure, there are various Group Policy settings that can be applied to lockdown the application, but the most common question is providing some kind of lockdown to where users are able to browse to. You may [...]

Types of memory usage

RP — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:16:11 +0000

When running edgesight reports or looking into server memory usage, the following types of memory are listed: Virtual Private Working set In looking into a particular issue, I wanted to determine exactly what these different types are and this is what I found. Virtual Virtual Bytes is the total size of the non-free pages in a process’ virtual address space. This [...]