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Month: September 2017

Citrix Receiver versions

Citrix Receiver versions

A few days ago I was asked “how to you know which Citrix Receiver version is being used based on the build number?”. Well you just have to know 🙂 When monitoring your Citrix installation via either the defunct Citrix Edgesight or the more modern Citrix Director, you may be in need of finding out which version of Citrix Receiver is installed on the different end-points devices connecting to your Citrix XenApp or VDI’s Both Edgesight and Director will show…

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User Profiles…the struggle is real!

User Profiles…the struggle is real!

During the last couple of years I have seen that managing user profiles in a Citrix environment can be a major PITA. However before going any further, let’s take a few steps back in time. In the good old days in the world of Citrix, with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, everything was nice and quite in the user profile area. We were happily rolling along with Citrix User Profile Manager, telling ourselves that the old, dusty and…

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