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.

Troubleshooting with Provisioning Services Server Machine Account Password

Posted on June 8, 2015 by Murugan B Iyyappan

​The Citrix PVS target device trust relationship failed and getting the error message "The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed", while booting the Citrix PVS Target device from vDisk. It happens when there is a mismatch … Continue reading →

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Publishing Explorer.exe in XenApp 6.5

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

When a published application such as Explorer is started, it closes instantly. Microsoft does not recommend using Explorer.exe as a published application. Because, the published Explorer.exe application runs as a separate process with a restricted access to the desktop. The … Continue reading →

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Basics of vDisks and Provisioning desktops

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

In XenDesktop, MCS is one of the options for provisioning virtual desktops on the underlying Hypervisor, Host Infrastructure. The other method is PVS. Before XenDesktop 7 these virtual machines were based on client operating systems. From XenDesktop 7, MCS can … Continue reading →

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What is new in Citrix StoreFront v2.6?

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

StoreFront 2.6 has lot of improvements for administration and user experience: Domain Dropdown List for Logon Form To enable the domain dropdown in the previous releases of StoreFront, we need to edit web.config for the Authentication Service after configuring the … Continue reading →

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Basics of Citrix Netscaler

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

There are 2 NetScaler editions; Citrix NetScaler and Citrix NetScaler Gateway. Although these two seem similar, there are some distinct differences depending on the licenses used. Citrix Netscaler refers to their Application Delivery Controller (ADC), while the Netscaler Gateway, formerly … Continue reading →

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