Unable to connect to the management console after PVS 6.1 config was successful

I was trying to configure PVS6.1 setup on windows 2008R2, configuration went successful but I tried to connect to server using console got following error : Event ID 11 Cannot establish a connection to the database because the server cannot be found

When the PVS config wizard run it usually populate registry with  the database info in encrypted format. But in my case this was missing

I checked the CTX129060 and policy was applied as mention

We captured processmon and it has some info

Following CTX129161 explain to change value to 1 but we had this value , what we did changed to 0 and that worked for us

How to change AGEE login page widget and remove Fileshare tab

When login to AGEE with NS version 9.3 , you will see screen like shown below. Sometime customer don't want to show File Share tab as well as shrink this widget .

This has been documented in CTX120643 but it mention some wrong line number for NS build 9.3. For NS build 9.3 change the following under homepage.html file at /netscaler/portal/template/homepage.html. Add as suggested in CTX120643 and shown below at like 602.

Once this is done you also need to rearrange the block for that make the changes in same line at line number 567 to the value

Save this setting as discussed in CTX12643

Now the page will look like this

What new with HDX Monitor 2.X for XenDesktop

If anyone have used HDX monitor 1.x will surely understand what I am talking about. HDX monitor was designed to provide ICA session information. Earlier version does not use to allow to launch for non ICA session .

With HDX 2.x you can lunch even without ICA session . This also allow you to connect to any other machine

 

Once connected following information is can be gathered under non ICA session . You can see all the star info . This also allow you to generate report

All the threshold can be tweaked by changing setting

 

When you look via ICA session check this beautiful report :)

 

Now if this is launched via XA session , you can see all the session from single ICA window

Something to fall in love with

How to Disable Shift F2 for Citrix published desktop (HSD)

When XenApp desktop (Hosted Shared desktop ) is published user can use Shift +F2 to minimize the desktop . Below test is with  XenApp 6.5 and webinterface 5.4 along with Citrix receiver 3.2. To disable this completely we have to make changes to defult.ica and webinterface.conf for particular site as shown below.

Avaya CMS Supervisor Error <429> with XenApp 6.5

When Avaya CMS supervisor used to be launch within XA hosted desktop error used to throw <429?

This require specific permission per forum. Create folder C:\Program Files\Avaya if this does not exit .  Give authenticated users full control on the folder:

C:\Program Files\Avaya  and C:\Program Files (x86)\Avaya.

Now Avaya CMS is launching fine

Configuring Reporting Service on SQL 2008 Cluster for EdgeSight

After installing reporting service on SQL 2008 windows cluster , I was getting error HTTP 404 page not found when ever I tried to access the URL

I found that port was set to 80 by default for virtual directory and URL was not the blue.

I changed the port to 8080 as suggest by Google uncle and then this URL turned into blue

Now after this I was able to open the web page but now got some other error message. The report server installation is not initiated. (rsReportServerNotActivated) 

Even EdgeSight server was giving me different error stating that report server installation is not initialized.

What I found that Report Manager URL had yellow marked . After clicking on apply that went off and url appeared.

 

This also did not helped then I checked scale out deployment and found that one server has status to be joined. Did cluster failover and connected and joined the server.

After that configuration of reporting service was straight forward . Typed the username password and it started configuring ES reporting database without any issue . CTX130967 is a great article to follow for installing EdgeSight.