Category Archives: Citrix

Get alert email when an event occurs and logged in the event viewer

Scenario: We need to get an email when an event occurs and logged in the event viewer. The mail should contain the contents of the event log entry. In this example, I am using Event ID 137 on a Windows … Continue reading

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What is new in Citrix StoreFront v2.6?

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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How Connection Leasing and LHC Works?

After XenApp 6.5, Citrix does not use the IMA data store as the central database to store configuration information. Instead, it uses a Microsoft SQL Server database as the data store for both configuration and session information. Microsoft Access and … Continue reading

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Components of Citrix StoreFront Server

1. Authentication service: This service, which is an integral part of StoreFront, authenticates users to XenDesktop and XenApp farms. 2. Store: The store retrieves user credentials from the authentication service and provides resources to the to authenticated users. The store … Continue reading

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Citrix StoreFront logon process

Once the user enters the credentials the authentication service of StoreFront fetches the user credentials and validates them with a domain controller. So the StoreFront servers must reside either within the Active Directory domain containing the user accounts or within … Continue reading

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