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Internet Explorer settings and Flex Profile Kit

John Tran — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:48:33 +0000

If you’re having problems retaining Internet Explorer settings or the runonce continously appears after a restart when using the Flex Profile Kit, you will need to make sure that you have the following reg hive HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main is included in the Windows_and_IE.INI

So it should look like this under # Generic IE Settings,

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\Components
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IntelliForms
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\New Windows
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

Cookies not working in Citrix with Mandatory Profiles

John Tran — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:51:01 +0000

If you’re using mandatory profiles with Citrix and your Cookies are not working in Internet Explorer, do the following.

Launch regedt32.exe
Click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Click on File and go to Load Hive
Browse to the location of your ntuser.man file and open the file
Give it the Key Name “ManProfile” and click OK
Then go to HKLM\ManProfile\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
On the right replace the Cookies Key Data “%USERPROFILE%\Cookies” with the path users home folder, for eg “H:\CitrixProfile\Cookies“
Make sure you select on ManProfile, then click on File and go to Unload Hive. This is important or users will not be able to access ntuser.man if you do not unload the hive in registry.

This should fix the problem with Cookies in Internet Explorer.

Remove Outlook Express on Citrix Server

John Tran — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:06:28 +0000

To completely remove Outlook Express from your Citrix Server running on MS Windows 2003 Server, do the following.

Open C:\Windows\Inf\sysoc.inf in notepad
Find the line ‘OEAccess=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,oeaccess.inf,hide,7′ and change it to read ‘OEAccess=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,oeaccess.inf,,7′ Save and close the file. (Remove the word ‘hide’)
Open ‘Add / Remove Programs’ and then ‘Windows Components’ Uncheck Outlook Express to uninstall

Show published applications in folders in Citrix MetaFrame Server

John Tran — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:35:52 +0000

If you would like your Published Applications to appear in folders in Program Neighborhood Agent. Then you will need to specify a Folder under Program Neighborhood Settings when Publishing Applications.

User setting are not retained in Citrix after logoff

John Tran — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:18:21 +0000

If you would like to retain user settings in Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server then you cannot use Mandatory profiles. The only way to retain settings and use Mandatory Profiles is if you have Appsense as Appsense allows you to export and import hives during logon and logoff.

Read the following article from Citrix if you would like more information on User Profiles in Citrix

Error 26013. Function InitializeTree2 returned failure in CTX_MF_IMA_InitializeTree2 the database username or password may be wrong

John Tran — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:47:22 +0000

If you’re getting the following error message ‘Error 26013. Function InitializeTree2 returned failure in CTX_MF_IMA_InitializeTree2 the database username or password may be wrong’ while installing Citrix Presentation Server try the following. This is assuming you have tried http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX107977 from Citrix Support.

Create a SQL Database called Citrix.
Please make sure that your SQL Server is configured for SQL Authentication AND NT-Authentication.
Create a SQL Login account and give the user DB Owner rights to the Citrix Database. If you’re having issues when seeting the DSN using this account use a simple password for example ‘citrix’.
Now start the installation of Citrix Presentation Server
Type in the Citrix Farm and choose SQL Server for your datastore
It will then ask you to create a DSN, type in the description and select the SQL Server using the drop down list.
Now for the important bit – At the question how the SQL Server verify the authenticity of the Login ID: Select “With SQL Server Authentication using a login ID and Password entered by the User.” Use the login details that you created earlierin step 3.
Now select the Citrix database as the default database.
Click Next until you get to test connections. Make sure the connection is successful and then click finish.

You should now be able to install Citrix Presentation Server without getting the error 26013.

MetaFrame Presentation Server cannot contact the license server Empty error message

John Tran — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:58:19 +0000

If you receive the following error message “MetaFrame Presentation Server cannot contact the license server Empty” when logging on your Citrix Server, do the following.

Check the Event Log on the Citrix Server
You should see the following error under the System Log – This computer running MetaFrame Presentation Server will now stop accepting connections. This server is no longer in or could not enter a licensing grace period.
Now check the Event Log on your licensing Server
You should see the following error under the Application Log Error: 9002, Severity: 17, State: 6
The log file for database ‘CITRIX’ is full. Back up the transaction log for the database to free up some log space.
If you do not see the following errors then please visit http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX112408
If you do see the errors in your Event Log then you must truncate the inactive transactions in your transaction log and shrink the Citrix transaction log file. The easiest way to do this is to firstly backup your Citrix database log file and then run the following query.

DBCC SHRINKFILE(CITRIX_log, 10)