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Table of contents
1. What is datastore in Citrix? ............................................................................................................................................... 2
2. What will happen if LHC in Citrix corrupted? .............................................................................................................. 2
3. What is time out feature in Citrix? How to enable this feature? ........................................................................... 2
4. If any user gets error that resources is unavailable in citrix than what will you do? ..................................... 3
5. What will happen if data store down in Citrix? ........................................................................................................... 3
6. What will happen if Citrix license server goes down? .............................................................................................. 4
7. Hybrid automation framework structure ....................................................................................................................... 4
8. Why is ICA that much faster than RDP? What is the technological difference between the two? .......... 5
9. What are the consoles available to manage citrix server? ..................................................................................... 5
10. What is the citrix xml service? ....................................................................................................................................... 5
11. What is pvs and why would you use it? ..................................................................................................................... 5
12. What is a ZDC and why is it recommended to have a dedicated one when there are more than 5 XenApp
servers?..........................................................................................................................................................................6
13. How do you repair the ima localhost cache? ............................................................................................................ 6
14. How the licensing works in citrix and difference in citrix licensing version wise? ........................................ 7
15. What group policy file would you edit to add custom drive letters for the purpose of hiding them from
users when they login to a xenapp server? ...................................................................................................................... 7
16. What is ICA and what are the advantages of ICA? ................................................................................................ 8
17. What is client lock down? ............................................................................................................................................... 8
18. What are different load evaluators are available in Citrix? .................................................................................. 8
19. How to implement policies in Citrix ................................................................................................ 9
20. What is printer terminology in Citrix? ......................................................................................................................... 9
21. What are different load evaluators are available in Citrix ............................................................... 10
22. How to recover when IMS failing? ............................................................................................................................. 11
23. What is the requirement for Citrix server installation? ........................................................................................ 12
24. What are the query commands in Citrix? ................................................................................................................ 12
25. What are the different ports use in Citrix? .............................................................................................................. 12
26. How to recover when datastore is failing? .............................................................................................................. 14
27. What will you check when any user is not able to launch citrix application? ............................................... 14
28. What is the requirement of installation manager and what kind of extension its support? .................... 14
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2. Run dsmaint recreatelhc, which renames the existing LHC database, creates a new database,
and modifies the following registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWARE Citrix IMA Runtime
PSRequired key to 1. Setting the value PSRequired to 1 forces the server to establish
communication with the data store in order to populate the Local Host Cache database. When
the IMA service is restarted, the LHC is recreated with the current data from the data store.
3. Restart the IMA service. This can be done via the command line, net start
IMA service, or from services.
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15. What group policy file would you edit to add custom
drive letters for the purpose of hiding them from users when
they login to a XenApp server?
Asked by Tligon | Answer contributed by: Navjotg
User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Explorer | "Hide these specified drives
in My Computer" and "Prevent access to drives from My Computer"
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Client Printer: The printer connected to the Workstation & the drivers are installed on the
Citrix server for printing.
Network Printer: The Printer connected to the print server & the drivers should be available
on the Citrix server.
Local Printer: The printer connected to locally to the Citrix server & the driers are installed for
the print operation.
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ODBC configuration
Roaming Profile
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If the Temp directory is not present, then manually create one as >Temp. For example:
C: WinntTemp
Also, verify that the TMP and TEMP system environment variables point to the temporary
directory. Restart the server to restart the IMA Service
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Terminal Services,
Citrix Licenses
Citrix Clients
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2598: This is the session reliability port number and needs to be opened on your firewall if the
ICA Clients will be using session reliability when communication with the server.
27000 and a random port number: This is the port used for communication between the Citrix
License server and the Presentation Servers. Remember that the Citrix vendor daemon running
on the license server uses a random port. It tracks license usage.
27. What will you check when any user is not able to launch
Citrix application?
Asked by Sk_naresh | Answer contributed by: Sateesh_wsa
1) First try to launch same application from Citrix server (on which you installed and published)
2) Try to add same application to your ID and try to launch
3) Check user permissions for that Applications
4) Verify that latest Citrix client software installed at desktop
5) Verify that user is having correct proxy settings to connect to your Citrix network (for remote
users)
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