When installing the Azure Monitor agent on Windows client devices, you are required to create a ‘Monitored Object’. This creates a representation for the Azure AD tenant within Azure Resource Manager (ARM). This ARM entity is what Data Collection Rules are then associated with. This Monitored Object needs to be created only once for any number of machines in a single AAD tenant.
Read moreMS Teams on Citrix VDA freezes when managing contacts
Since early February multiple posts on Citrix and Microsoft forums report freezes in MS Teams when managing contacts. I myself ran into this issue as well and logged a call with Microsoft, assuming it was an issue with MS Teams.
Read moreCitrix Studio: Cannot connect to vCenter server due to certificate error
If for any reason, you’ve changed the certificate on your vCenter server, existing Hosting connections in Citrix Studio will break.
Read moreCitrix Studio: A machine is not registered, but should be
After a failed upgrade from Citrix VCAD 7.15.3000 to 1912, uninstalling 7.15 and reinstalling 1912, a VDA was rendered useless. I couldn’t start the published desktop or finance applications. It was the only VDA in a Machine Catalog (provisioning manual), showed as registered and added to a dedicated Delivery Group. The Delivery Group showed one registered machine and one missing registration (which is odd with only one VDA in the Machine Catalog).
Read moreO365 Hybrid Wizard – Hybrid Agent Fails to Validate
When running the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW), at the point where the Hybrid Agent installs, it installs and registers fine, but then fails the verification step.
Read moreVeeam backup for O365 on QNAP
Using Veeam backup for Microsoft Office 365 to backup your Exchange Online mailboxes, Sharepoint or OneDrive data to a QNAP NAS requires specific configuration.
Read moreHow to redirect MS OneNote cache in roaming profiles
Since MS OneNote is still around in companies, also used in Citrix environments, it’s important to make sure the OneNote cache folder is being redirected to a location outside the roaming profile. Because it can take up a lot of space, redirection of the cache folder is mandatory. Whether you use MS roaming profiles, Citrix UPM profiles or VMware UEM profiles, you don’t want to have the OneNote cache roaming in your profile.
Read moreCitrix Storefront 2.6: Cannot start Desktop
I configured a Citrix Storefront 2.6 site for a customer and had to make some modifications in the web.config file. I ran into this little nifty tool which has a great GUI interface into the web.config. The tool offers a GUI to ease configuration of the StoreFront 1.2/2.0/2.1/2.5/2.6 “Receiver for Web”. Read more
