This post will show on how to disable local drive mapping via GPO for Windows Server 2003 environment. Considering GPO will take precedence over Citrix policy, this setting will work on both RDP and ICA sessions. Description : Disable local drive mapping via GPO (the same setting can be applied to local policy too) How To Do : Open your Group Policy Object, and browse to this setting ( Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Terminal Services > Client/Server data redirection   Let's focus on Do not allow drive redirection. Right click at it, and click at Properties  Choose Enabled, press Apply and OK.  This will be the outcome. This is the explanation on this setting by Microsoft.   Drive mapping is now disabled, and users are not able to change it.

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 had this incident reported to my team once in a blue moon. users not able to access  to their virtual desktops, with below error. The desktop that you are trying to restart is currently undergoing maintenance.  Contact your system administrator. Issues : Users not able to access virtual desktop because of the desktop is still under  maintenance. Troubleshooting   Launch Citrix Desktop Studio , and search for the specific virtual desktop. You may focus on the virtual desktop name or the user ID configured to it.

On one fine day, when I wanted to do something with Excel, I realized that I was not able to expand the row height as mush as I wished. so When I tried to change the height by putting the value, I received below error. It turned out that, maximum row height for Excel is 409 points, or 546 pixels. This has been documented in Excel Specifications and Limits, which you may refer to below link (under Reference). As a workaround, you can merge 2 (or more) adjacent rows, and you will get 409n points of row heights ( where n is the number of merged rows was I being silly here by providing that info? ). Give it a try :) Reference  https://support.office.com/en-nz/article/Excel-specifications-and-limits-1672b34d-7043-467e-8e27-269d656771c3

Description : There are multiple ways to do add AD user groups into computer local groups - manual way or using GPO. To me, it is always GPO way - it is easier (sort of) as the configuration will be persistent across all servers where the GPO being applied to. How To Do :  At your GPO, right click at it, and choose E dit...  Expand to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Restricted Groups . Right click at it, and choose Add G roup...  Click at Browse... as we want to choose the AD user Group.  Type your AD User Group   Click at Check Names to ensure the group is correct. Once it is confirmed, click at OK . The User group will be listed here. You can choose as many user groups as you want, it will be listed here. Press OK again.  In here, click at the Add button under This group is a member of:  option.  Click at Browse to choose the local group to be assigned to.  Type your desired local group name. In this example, I