There will be situation where Business wants users' Citrix sessions to reflect server time zone, especially when the datacenter location and users' locations are at different time zones. These steps are also applicable to provide local time zone to Citrix / TS users.
Description : To provide server / local time zone to users' Citrix sessions. How To Do :
Launch Citrix AppCenter, and go to Policies node.
From there, click at Users tab.
Depending whether to create a new policy or edit current one, choose the option accordingly. In this case, we create a new one.
Configure policy name
Browse to All Settings > ICA > Time Zone Control
Add Use local time of client policy
Choose desired option, whether to use server time or local time, then press OK
Press Next to proceed
Configure filtering accordingly.
Enable and create the Citrix policy.
Go to Group Policy Management Console, and create a new policy or edit current policy. In this case, we edit current policy.
Browse to User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Destop Session Host > Device and Resource Redirection
Right click at Allow time zone redirection, and press Edit
Choose to enable or disable time zone redirection accordingly. Press Apply and OK.
In previous post, i explained on how to enable Configuration Logging on XenApp 5.0 for Server 2003. In this post, I will explain on how to generate Configuration Logging report.
Description : Generating Configuration Logging report - XenApp 5.0 for Server 2003. How To Do :
Firstly, login to workstation using the ID that has access to the DB. This Citrix blog explains well on the access required.
Launch Citrix Console, right click at Report Center > choose Generate Report
Choose Configuration Logging Report, and press Next
If no specification being created yet, choose Create and use a new specification, press Next
Put the connection name, in this case the connection name is ConfigLogging. Click at Create
This window popped out, at Provider tab, choose Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server, and press Next >>
At Connection tab, properly specify the server name, credential, and the database. For credential (point #2 in the picture), choose Use Windows NT Integrated security (which is why I asked to login to the machine with that particular ID as step #1). Once all done, click at Test Connection.
If everything went well, this message will pop-up. Press OK.
We will be back to this screen, press OK.
Once we finished creating connection, we will be back to this screen. Press Next
Select the required farm, press Next
This screen will appear. Choose Use all available data, and press OK.
Customize the time accordingly, and press Next
Publish the report by choosing Publish report option, and specify the location by pressing the Add button. Once done, press Next
It is always best to save the specification, so we can easily generate the report again later on. Give the specification a name, and press Next
Everything will be summarize here, press Next.
All done. You may refer to Job view within Report Center node to check the progress.
