Useful CTX Articles

My personal bookmarked lists of CTX articles I want to find (page under development)

Useful CTX Articles I refer to a lot:

• CTX206224 – Mouse Performance Issue on VDA (A summary of some info in my blog https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2015/04/09/performance-tip-disabling-mouse-shadow-for-xendesktop-and-xenapp/)
• CTX202515 – Troubleshooting Citrix Receiver for Android
• CTX202543 – Unable to Add Keys to Extended Keys Ribbon While in Session in Receiver for Android 3.8
• CTX125027 – How to Optimize HDX Bandwidth Over High Latency Connections
• CTX202150 – How to Calculate the Load Evaluator Index on DDC
• CTX130848 – Selected Default Session Printer Not Retained in Future Sessions
• CTX200370 – How to Determine HDX Display Mode ( see also http://blogs.citrix.com/2015/01/30/site-wide-view-of-hdx-graphics-modes/ – Site Wide View of HDX Graphics Modes)
• http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX202000 Template Updates

CTX Articles I have authored/contributed to:

• CTX202687 – HDX Graphics Modes – Which Policies Apply to DCR/Thinwire/H.264 – An Overview for XenDesktop/XenApp 7.6 FP3
• CTX202319 – Multiple Monitors – Mouse Cursor Jumping Around, Out-of-sync if DPIs of Monitors Are Not Matched
• CTX202276 – Google Chrome Browser (Chrome 45 and upwards) Blocks GPU Acceleration with XenApp on Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2
• CTX202246 – Cursors Display Issues with Complex CAD Cursors (Example: Autodesk and PTC Creo) in RDP and HDX in XenDesktop/XenApp 7.6 FP2 or Earlier
• CTX202231 – Flickering Icons or Start Menu Objects on Windows Server 2008 R2 when using H.264 or Compatibility Encoder Graphics Modes
• CTX201804 – Intermittent Connection Failures/Black Screen Issues when Connecting from Multi-monitor Client Machines to Windows 7 VDA with VDA 7.x on vSphere/ESXi
• CTX202160 – HDX Benchmarking: Known incompatibilities and caveats with third-party benchmarks
• CTX202148 – Changes in Experimental Support for XenApp and Multiple GPUs
• CTX202149 – Known Issues or Configuration Reasons: OpenGL/DirectX/GPU Acceleration Not Used
• CTX202109 – Desktop Session Start Slowly or Fails to Start from Linux Receiver
• CTX202106 – How to Publish Chrome Browser for XenApp so that GPU Acceleration is Enabled
• CTX202084 – Internet Explorer 9: Hardware Acceleration Does Not Work in Some Virtualization Environments (including vSphere/ESXi)
• CTX202066 – GPU-accelerated OpenGL on Amazon Web Services (AWS G2 instances) with NVIDIA GRID K520/K340 No Longer Works
• CTX202065 – Mozilla Firefox Blocks GPU Acceleration for WebGL with XenApp on Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2
• CTX202010 – Internet Explorer is Not GPU-accelerated When Virtualized on XenServer 6.2
• CTX201968 – Accessing ICA RTT Metrics for Citrix HDX and XenDesktop and XenApp
• CTX201851 – A “Yellow Bang” is Displayed on the Standard VGA Adapter on Windows 7 When Using XenServer and Citrix WDDM Driver
• CTX201802 – FAQ: HDX Extra Color Compression (ECC) Policy in XenApp and XenDesktop
• CTX201696 – Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp – Support for Monitors Including 4K Resolution and Multi-monitors
• CTX201226 – How to Update RAM or CPU within MCS Catalog (see also http://www.christopherkeim.com/2015/02/new-script-xenserver-vm-memory_14.html Loads of scripts to do this available http://blogs.citrix.com/2014/09/10/scripting-automating-vm-operations-on-xenserver-using-powershell/)
• CTX200390 – Power Settings in XenServer 6.5: C-states, Turbo and CPU Frequency Scaling; supersedes my original article for older XS (available here)
• CTX136426 – Alternative to xenstore_client.exe: How to Access XenStore Information Using WMI Interface
• CTX135033 – Performance Monitoring Enhancements Pack for XenServer 6.1

Internal CTX articles (mostly HDX) – need a Citrite login to get the HDX secrets!

• CTX202111
• CTX201950
• CTX201822
• CTX201824
• CTX201812