Category: Server

Citrix, Repackaging, Server

Specifying Custom RDP settings for Virtual Environments

In virtual environments based on Remote Desktop Services (RDP) like RemoteApp or XenApp, you’d require to auto apply some of the settings or customize the default behaviour of an RDP dependent session.  In this article you’ll see how to find the allowed customization settings for RDP and where to configure/discover them.  Thus you’ll be able to Specify Custom RDP settings for Virtual Environments.  Scenario:  Lets say you are configuring an application that has audio interaction to be launched from RemoteApp session.  By default the Audio for RDP settings is set to be not redirected to the client session limiting audio […]

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Citrix, Server

Citrix Policy Settings Reference along with Registry equivalents by Citrix – Applicable to XenApp 6.x & XenDesktop 5.x

Citrix Policy Settings Reference along with Registry equivalents by Citrix   Here is a quick presentation of all the Citrix provided Policy settings along with tehir Registry equivalents which are applicable for Citrix XenApp 6.X and Citrix XenDesktop 5.X.  I am also attaching the Excel Sheet containg this list at the end of this article just in case if Citrix removes this file from their site/article given in references.   Table of Citrix Policy Settings Reference along with Registry equivalents – by Citrix   Category Policy Setting Name Scope Registry Information Values Help Text Applies To XD XA ICA ICA […]

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Active Directory, Desktop, Server

Certificate Requirements for Setting up AD FS (Active Directory Federation Services)

Certificate Requirements for Setting up AD FS During my recent evaluation of AD FS, I have gone through various articles but there wasn’t any clear mention or details about how the certificates be configured for AD FS.  Here is my attempt to share all of my learning and how I got it setup working.  I found the relevant MS article after I got whole of my setup done, it doesn’t show up in the search results 🙁 Environment: Windows Server 2012 AD FS 3.0 (which comes as default in server 2012 OS) Domain Functional Level: Windows Server 2008 R2 AD […]

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