How to reset Citrix Password Manager for a user

What do you do when a user doesn’t remember the answers to the security questions that they registered with in citrix password manager? But their is another option just enter your previous password? Oh they don’t remember that either. Great! So what do you do. Just reset their registration of password manager. I dunno why, but I had the hardest time trying to find this option. So in...

Running commands on remote servers

We have many citrix servers, but whenever I need to run one simple command I hate to go to all my citrix servers to run on. I wish I could just connect to one server, and access the command line for all the other server. Well you can, as I soon learned with psexec. It’s a Microsoft tool (formerly sysinternals), and you can download it here.  Below is how you use it. psexec \\RemoteComputer...

Repairing file associations

Have two versions of the same software that open the same file extension? Having trouble getting windows to open the right one. We had this same problem with Crystal reports (.rpt extension), but setting it in the file types options in windows did not work. However the bottom command worked in our citrix farm. Don’t put this is a batch file because the %1 doesn’t flow...

Citrix session stays open with Symantec

Symantec Endpoint Protection doesn’t allow citrix sessions to close. I had this problem when we installed symantec corporate edition to our citrix servers. All the citrix applications were closed, but the session would stay open because symantec was running in the session. Below is the fix. The application name maybe different for you, so find the .exe that’s running the symantec icon...

Citrix IMA Error 2147483649

The Citrix IMA service doesn’t start, and you get 2147483649 in the error log. Try the following. Run “dsmaint verifylhc” at the command line on the server having the problem. If it finds corruption it will ask to repair. Try starting the service after the...