CTX: Best Practices for Citrix XenApp Hotfix Rollup Pack Installation and Deployment

Best Practices for Citrix XenApp Hotfix Rollup Pack Installation and Deployment

This article introduces and discusses some of the best practices for installing and deploying a Hotfix Rollup Pack for XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2003 and Presentation Server 4.5.

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX120842

MS: Could not reconnect all network drives

To fix the Balloon error on Taskbar: Could not reconnect all network drives:

Start > Run > type Regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2

Check the Network Drive(s) and then delete registry key(s)

CtxAdmTools: List HotFix v2.0 Updated!

List HotFix v2.0 - Release Date: June 16, 2009 - This FREE tool list all Citrix and Microsoft Hot Fixes installed in your Citrix farm or local and remote Windows servers

Last week I was on a call with Citrix technical support and they ask me: Do you have MS hotfix KBXXXXXX installed on the server with issues? Do you have Citrix patch PSE450R01W2K3XXX installed? I don’t know.

Few hours later I was writing List HotFix v2.0, a new tool to search for this info. List HotFix was developed from scratch. The old List HotFix show only citrix hotfixes in the entire Citrix farm.
This version show the Citrix/MS hotfixes list from a Citrix servers on a farm, Active Directory computers, text files, etc.

With the FREE List HotFix v2.0, you can list all Citrix and Microsoft Hot Fixes / Patches / Updates installed on your Citrix farm or local and remote Windows/Citrix servers, search for a specific HotFix and export the results to Excel files.

List HotFix v2.0 requires .NET Framework v2.0 or later.

Download List HotFix v2.0 from http://ctxadmtools.musumeci.com.ar/


Search for an specific HotFix:

Export results to Excel Files:

CtxAdmTools: AD Show User Groups v1.0 Released!

AD Show User Groups is a FREE tool inspired by these typical calls from Support Engineers or Technical Analyst: can you send me a list of Active Directory groups for this user?

AD Show User Groups show Group Membership of a specific AD User and export results to a text file.

Download AD Show User Groups from http://ctxadmtools.musumeci.com.ar/

MS: IPSEC error: The system cannot find the file specified

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7023
Description:
The IPSEC Services service terminated with the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.

Solution:
Click Start, click Run, type regsvr32 polstore.dll

CTX: How detect if an application is running through Citrix?

To detect if an application is running through Citrix or Terminal Server use the .NET code below in your application.

System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.TerminalServerSession
True = running on TS or Citrix

To check inside on your VB6 application:

Private Declare Function GetSystemMetrics Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal nIndex As Long) As Long
Const SM_REMOTESESSION = &H1000

if GetSystemMetrics(SM_REMOTESESSION)<>0 then MsgBox "Running on Citrix/Terminal Server"