How to monitor XenDesktop VDA registration Event ID's using EdgeSight

By default EdgeSight  provide template to monitor VDA event ID which is for XD 4.0

Detail of this template point to the event ID which is meant for XD 4.0

 

So in order to monitor VDA 5.0 registration failure with DDC we need to create custom alert and update database with this event ID .

Select system Alerts in the below screen.

 

Select the windows event log on the next screen in order to define the event ID.

Here define the event ID 10500 and event source as Citrix Desktop Service

Here click on next to assign to the desktop site.

Here choose which desktop groups you need to apply this template to.

Here again choose and select desktop group .

Here choose to create the new alert action

Here select email as the notification mechanism.

Here choose the alert email recipient and the subject line. Click finish to come out of the loop.

Now we need to make changes to SQL to accept this event ID. Open the ES database and run the SQL queries

select * from alert_config  . This will list the alertconfigid, choose the highest one. In my case it is 20

Now check the existing data which has been updated.

Select * from alert_config_value where alertconfigID=20

Now we have to database with more event id

update alert_config_value set key_value = '10501,10502,10508' where key_name='EventID' and alertconfigid=20

Rerun the select query  Select * from alert_config_value where alertconfigID=20

to confirm if the other event ID is updated.

How to display more line item on Desktop Director DashBoard.

Quite confusing from the title of the blog , isn't it ? Well this has been a normal situation when dashboard is launched only 5 desktop group status will be shown on the dashboard as shown below.

This can be modified by changing IIS attribute of DesktopDirector application settings as shown below.

How to install Lotus SameTime 8.5.1 on Citrix PVS Streamed pooled desktop (VDI)

IBM Lotus Sametime is the enterprise communicator similar to OCS. It has similar feature as Microsoft OCA along with , it has ability to take screenshot and share over chat . Some of the cool feature liked by end users to  have his/her  own emotions on chat.

While installation is easy but it does not launch in PVS streamed VM's . PVS streamed VM  uses roaming profile because of pooled environment . This can only be achieved via storing user's profile data on shared storage.

IBM Sametime does not like it because it has tendency to store it locally . Below screenshot shows that  value called rcp.data store it locally. This setting does not allow the sametime to launch when desktop is access via ICA session.

To make it work , mount the roaming app data GPO by updating registry

And now make change to the file rcplauncher.properties by updating the field called rcp.data as shown below .

With this you would be able to launch IBM same time on streamed pooled VM.

How to Publish Google Chrome 13.0 with XenApp 6

To publish Google Chrome , we need to download standalone msi package from google

12/29/2008-13:42:29 http://dl.google.com/update2/1.2.131.27/GoogleUpdateSetup.exe
12/29/2008-13:42:29 http://dl.google.com/update2/1.2.131.27/clickonce_bootstrap.exe
12/29/2008-13:42:35 http://cache.pack.google.com/chrome/install/154.36/chrome_installer.exe

Or from following url https://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?standalone=1

Install the standalone package and this will get installed under the user profile whoever is logged in. In this example Administrator is logged in hence the shown path . We need to copy Chrome.exe under 13.0.782.112 folder as shown below. Administrator folder should be given Modify permission for all the users.

Now create googleChorme.cmd file under program folder with shown entry.

Publish this CMD as usual using Citrix Delivery Console.

You can launch and safely ignore the message   and use google chorm

How to install Desktop Director and configure for MultiSite in XenDesktop 5.0

When you have multiple site running XD 5.0 Farm and Help Desk want to use single desktop director to manage both farm . We need to update desktop director with other farm controller name

To install standalone desktop director you can run DDC 5.0 ISO and choose following . Update DDC FQDN in the given format and hit test

This will finish Desktop Director  installation

Once installation done we need to open IIS management . Drill down to DesktopDirector and highlight Application setting.

This will bring all the setting related to Desktop Director . There are two setting which we need to modify in order to manage multiple site.

We need to change from 'false' to 'true'

Update here with all the controller FQDN to manage all the site.

Restart the IIS here and then browse to the page . This webpage will be different and here you wont get dashboard. Only thing can be done here is search users and then address the issue pertaining to the user. So it would be very important to decide if you like to make these changes and use it . This is with Desktop Director 1.0 . There are few changes which has been made to Desktop Director 2.0 which will allow you to manage XD 5.5 and XA 6.5 farm as well . Source is here