Author Archives: Murugan B Iyyappan

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About Murugan B Iyyappan

Working as a Senior Consultant - Citrix solutions architect with 20+ years of experience in the IT industry. Expertise in Citrix products and Cloud VDI platform.

Difference between Machine Creation Services and Provisioning Services

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Murugan B Iyyappan

XenDesktop 5 has two different features to provide single image management i.e., Machine Creation Services and Provisioning Services. Machine Creation Services can only provide hosted VDI desktops (pooled or dedicated). If we want to utilize a hosted shared desktop model, … Continue reading →

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Future of XenApp, XenDesktop 7 and App-V

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Murugan B Iyyappan

Citrix XenDesktop 7 and XenApp 6.5 Feature Pack 1 will ship in June 2013. Citrix released XenDesktop 7 this May 2013, that combines XenApp and other virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technologies to deliver Windows apps and desktops to mobile devices … Continue reading →

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ICA port not responding or Protocol Driver Error

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Murugan B Iyyappan

Unable to connect to the CGP tunnel destination Citrix users are receiving an error on login: Protocol Driver Error Event ID 118 The Citrix server is reporting a number of Event ID: 118 errors. Unable to connect to the CGP … Continue reading →

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Create scheduled server reboot policy in XenApp 6.5

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Murugan B Iyyappan

1.  Create the Worker Groups 2.  Add Servers to the Worker groups 3.  Create the Citrix Policies 4.  Select Reboot Logon Disable Time and click Add. 5.  Select Reboot Schedule Frequency and click Add. 6.  Select Reboot Schedule Start Date … Continue reading →

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