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...

Launch.ica doesnt launch in internet explorer

I had this weird problem on a machine, whenever I logged into my citrix web interface, and clicked on a application icon it won’t launch. It shows downloading the file, but it would not do anything with the file it would just sit there. I check the file assoication for .ica and it was set correctly, but won’t launch still. Then I found that you may need to re-register the wfica32.exe...

Copying Citrix licenses to another server

What happens if your citrix license server is unstable, or you need to create a citrix farm for testing purposes, or your license server dies? I had a citrix license server crash on a consulting job, and I had to figure out how to bring their environment back up. Luckily I had the data files on the dead server.  Below are the instructions on how to make another server a citrix licensing...

Printers missing in citrix?

Are you getting calls from users saying their printers are missing in citrix? It’s probably a problem with a or a few print drivers interacting with citrix.  First off you can’t blame citrix as I was initially doing. It’s really not a citrix problem (I’ll prove that below showing that the print server has no citrix software on it), it’s more related to the print...