Tag: Citrix Receiver

Dell Wyse ThinOS 9.0 & Wyse Management Suite 2.0

Dell has released a new major version of their ThinClient OS ThinOS, which focuses only on Citrix Workspace app enhancements.

A few days ago, Dell released ThinOS Version 9.0. To quote the release notes:

ThinOS 9.0 is a Citrix-specific release, which integrates Citrix Workspace app. Other Broker agent connections such as VMware, RDP, and Amazon WorkSpaces are not supported in this release. ThinOS 9.0 does not support the usage of INI parameters. You must use either Wyse Management Suite or the local Admin Policy Tool to manage your systems.

The important part is, that you can no longer rely on your good old FTP server and the wnos.ini. You have to implement Wyse Management Suite Version 2.0, which is currently the only way to manage ThinOS 9.0. Wyse Management Suite Version 2.0 is free up to 10.000 devices with a slightly limited feature set. You can find all details in the Wyse Management Suite feature matrix. Continue reading “Dell Wyse ThinOS 9.0 & Wyse Management Suite 2.0”

ICYMI: A few notes about the Citrix Receiver Clean-Up Utility

The Citrix Receiver Clean-Up Utility is no longer needed, as it’s part of the CitrixReceiver.exe nowadays.

The Citrix Receiver Clean-Up Utility has been my biggest friend for a while. It helps you to recover broken Citrix Receiver installations on Microsoft Windows. Before I knew it, I sometimes even reinstalled Windows to get Citrix Receiver back to work. Good old days.
But after many years a trustful friendship came to an end. Citrix included the functionality of the Receiver Clean-Up Utility into the Citrix Receiver Setup a while ago. Continue reading “ICYMI: A few notes about the Citrix Receiver Clean-Up Utility”

Citrix Receiver 4.4.3000 for Windows LTSR – Cumulative Update 3

Short notice:
Citrix Receiver 4.4.3000 for Windows LTSR – Cumulative Update 3
has been released. You can find it here:
https://www.citrix.com/downloads/citrix-receiver/windows-ltsr/receiver-for-windows-ltsr_4_4_3000.html

Update 20.09.2016: Citrix Receiver: Desktop und Applikationen verschwommen bei hoher Auflösung und DPI Skalierung

Bei uns in der Firma wurden die ersten Arbeitsplätze mit 27″ 2560×1440 Monitoren ausgestattet. Einigen Kollegen war der Text zu klein bei dieser hohen Auflösung, so dass wir die DPI Skalierung auf 125% oder gar 150% gestellt haben. So weit so gut. Leider greift die Skalierung auch für den Citrix Desktop Viewer, so dass der veröffentlichte Desktop mit einer manipulierten Auflösung startet. Das liegt unter anderem daran, dass der Citrix Receiver “not DPI aware” ist. Diese veränderte Auflösung hat zur Folge, dass das Bild unscharf bzw. “blurry” ist. Das ist natürlich kein Zustand mit dem man gerne längere Zeit arbeitet.
Eine kurze Recherche brachte dann zwei Artikel zum Vorschein, die beide 50% der Lösung lieferten. Zusammen ergab sich dann ein brauchbarer Workaround.
Das ganze gilt für XenApp und XenDesktop ab Version 7.6 und höher mit Server 2012 R2 RDSH Workern.
Continue reading “Update 20.09.2016: Citrix Receiver: Desktop und Applikationen verschwommen bei hoher Auflösung und DPI Skalierung”

Update 20.09.2016: Citrix Receiver 7.1 for iOS fails with Error Number: 183

A few days ago, Citrix release a new version of Citrix Receiver for iOS. This version fails on several iOS devices with different iOS versions. Users can login and get their application listing, but as soon as an application is launched, you see the Error 183. On the affected devices you see the following two errors:

German Error messages
German Error messages

Apple devices affected by that problem are listed in the correspondent discussion. Citrix is aware of the problem and announced a bugfix version for the faulty Receiver.

As a workaround, you can install the Citrix Receiver named “R1” which is the old 6.1.5 Receiver from Citrix. They leave it in the AppStore in case of faulty updates.

Update 20.09.2016: The Citrix KB CTX216501 has been updated accordingly.