Real-world Citrix, Azure Virtual Desktop, and end-user computing knowledge from a Senior VDI and EUC Consultant based in Switzerland. Posts here are war stories from production, script fixes, and design decisions that came out of 15 years of consulting engagements across the DACH region.
Every post is grounded in an actual customer problem, worked end-to-end. Vendor documentation gets you the happy path, real environments break in ways the docs never cover, and these are the writeups that come after the fix has landed.
HDX connection time should be a couple of seconds. When it is 15 to 20, the transport negotiation is failing and every user pays for it on every launch. How to read it, why it happens, and what to do.
StoreFront and NetScaler get renewed. The Cloud Connectors hold a bound certificate too, and netsh will refuse to add it a second time.
Three lines in FSLogix redirections.xml took SAP Business One launch times from ~2 minutes to ~1 on non-persistent Citrix VDAs. The Copy=3 attribute is the underused trick that makes it work.
Citrix file-based licensing goes end of life on April 15, 2026. Environments that haven't migrated to LAS will stop working. No grace period.
How I built this blog with Claude as an AI pair programmer - Jekyll, Chirpy tweaks, and a custom post editor that has since grown OAuth auth, offline drafts, and a one-click draft-to-post promote.
Citrix Director shadowing broke after the January 2026 Microsoft patches. Here's the GPO-deployable msra.exe /offerra workaround - no third-party tools.
PowerShell script for automated Citrix server reboots with staggered user notifications, maintenance mode handling, and CSV-driven configuration.
How native Citrix StoreFront keywords and VDA tags solved a production escalation - and avoided a six-figure licensing bill. No custom code required.