This issue occurred to me a few years back, when we started enrolling Windows Server 2008. When I tried to change my Citrix XenApp server to another farm, CHFARM.exe crashed and I could not do it. Because I was using GUi rather than command line during that time, so I could capture below detail. I did not have any issues in changing farm for XenApp in Server 2003, and my home lab (with Windows Server 2008) also gave a positive result. As I only can see this error on Server 2008 (security permission on my home lab was more relaxed - UAC disabled) and but not on Server 2003 (and my home lab), thus to me it was safe to narrow down the root cause to security permission on Server 2008 (to be exact : User Acess Control) that cause the problem. Issues : CHFARM crashed in the middle of changing Citrix XenApp farm (on Windows Server 2008). Troubleshooting   RDP to the server, launch RUN , type secpol.msc , and press OK . (First hint) At this window, click at I want t

I just realized that Citrix has listed all its support tools under a page. Admins can easily download all those tools and utilized them in their environments. You can download those tools from here .

There will be situation where Business wants users' Citrix sessions to reflect server time zone, especially when the datacenter location and users' locations are at different time zones. These steps are also applicable to provide local time zone to Citrix / TS users. Description : To provide server / local time zone to users' Citrix sessions. How To Do :  Launch Citrix AppCenter , and go to Policies node. From there, click at Users tab.  Depending whether to create a new policy or edit current one, choose the option accordingly. In this case, we create a new one.  Configure policy name  Browse to All Settings > ICA > Time Zone Control   Add Use local time of client policy  Choose desired option, whether to use server time or local time , then press OK  Press Next to proceed  Configure filtering accordingly.   Enable and create the Citrix policy. Go to Group Policy Management Console , and create a new policy or edit curren

In previous post , i explained on how to enable Configuration Logging on XenApp 5.0 for Server 2003. In this post, I will explain on how to generate Configuration Logging report. Description : Generating Configuration Logging report  - XenApp 5.0 for Server 2003. How To Do :  Firstly, login to workstation using the ID that has access to the DB. This Citrix blog explains well on the access required.   Launch Citrix Console, right click at Report Center > choose Generate Report Choose Configuration Logging Report , and press Next  If no specification being created yet, choose Create and use a new specification , press Next  Put the connection name, in this case the connection name is ConfigLogging . Click at Create   This window popped out, at Provider tab, choose Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server , and press Next >>  At Connection tab, properly specify the server name, credential , and the database . For credential (point #2 in

In this Kb , Citrix explains  on how to set up a Configuration Logging for XenApp 6.5. In this  post, I will show on how to set up the same for XenApp 5 for  Server 2003. Description : Set up  Configuration Logging  for XenApp 5 for  Server 2003. How To Do :   Launch Citrix Console, right click at <FarmName> , and choose  Properties .  Browse to Farm-Wide > Configuration Logging .  Click at Configure D atabase .   Choose connection type (in this case, it is SQL Server), DB  Server name , and credential (in this case, I used Windows Integrated security). Press Next   Speficy the database name , and press Next  Leave all settings as default , but change " Use encryption " to No . Press Next  Press Test Database Connection in order to test the connection  You will see this screen if the testing is successful. Press OK Now we are good, Configuration Logging properly set up. press OK .