Screen scaling SBC/VDI on Windows 8(.1), 10 and Server 2012 (R2) and 2016

Here's some background information. The customer I was migrating was using Citrix XenApp 7.15 on Microsoft Windows Server 2016. During the User Acceptance Test I received a question from a tester if we could adjust the font size on the screen as he had trouble reading it. While normally you could just adjust the font size in the control panel as shown in the image below on a thick client on a per-user base, this unfortunately isn't the case when you work in a XenApp Session, the option is greyed-out. The next obstacle…continue reading →

E-mails sent using MAPI stuck in Outbox

Here’s some background information. The customer I was migrating was using Microsoft Office 2010 / 2013 on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 using Citrix XenApp 7.15, applications were deployed using automation. There was a published application that used MAPI to send e-mail. During User Acceptance Tests (UAT’s), users complained of e-mail being stuck in their Outbox when pressing send in the published application. As we had to automate the creation of the mailbox prior to published application launch, we had to use a PRF (Outlook Profile file). Unfortunately, in my case there was one…continue reading →

The following servers in this deployment are not part of the server pool

So for my first article I'm going to write about an issue I had with Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. Let me give you a little background information before we dive into the actual issue. Background information I was assigned to a project that involved setting up an RDS environment for a 250 concurrent seat customer. The architect had already made the design and virtual machines, the RDS infrastructure had 1 RD Connection Broker which also was used as a RD Gateway and RD Web Access and 4 RD Session Hosts. The actual issue…continue reading →