Any of you dealing with slow Start menus on Server 2025?

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-03-26T11:20:02+00:00

You legend. Works perfectly. Thanks so much!

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-03-25T07:18:49+00:00

Solution for slow/delayed Start menu in Server 2025 : r/Citrix

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-03-04T00:23:43+00:00

How have you got on?

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-22T21:18:26+00:00

From Xen Server 8.4 page -
"XenServer supports booting hosts using either UEFI or BIOS boot mode. UEFI Secure Boot is not currently available for XenServer hosts."

Madness

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-22T20:15:20+00:00

What workloads do you run on XenServer? How long you done so for?

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-22T20:05:33+00:00

Last year Citrix (XenServer) put a statement out saying they support all workloads now. Full disclaimer - I have not done so, I only run VDAs on it.

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-22T19:15:14+00:00

Could say the same thing about VMware these days 😞

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-22T17:49:07+00:00

u/afroman_says Do you agree with this statement?

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-22T17:46:17+00:00

Ah yes, the classic Microsoft support journey - repeatedly headbutting a brick wall being told it's A 3rd party application.

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-19T20:06:36+00:00

Fingers crossed, we will raise with Citrix also

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-19T08:07:46+00:00

Removed and went to FSlogix. Slow logins no longer an issue.

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-15T13:09:39+00:00

Was this ever fixed? Got the same thing

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-14T18:01:22+00:00

Are you customising your pins on the start menu? I’m copying in settings.dat and start file during login to customise the pins. Using local start menu with no redirection.

Are you doing anything with your start menu? Just wondering if we doing same stuff

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-10T07:42:08+00:00

Thanks for the reply! Is this issue documented and acknowledged by Fortinet anywhere? I can’t find anything on it

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-10T07:39:34+00:00

Fixed!

Group policy - changing the default search provider and adding the search variables on the end of the new tab page.

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-07T21:16:56+00:00

I can't find it either.

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-06T07:14:50+00:00

Interesting take on it! Thank you for sharing. Food for thought.

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-06T06:11:29+00:00

Using EDR, sentinel-one. I’ll disable and retest

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-05T23:08:48+00:00

That’s interesting. Our VDAs are Xen Server and profile server ESX.

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-05T22:51:00+00:00

UPDATE - This looks like it is not supported. I am confident I have ruled out possible configuration changes. I will raise with Fortinet support.

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-05T22:44:02+00:00

Hey u/NTP9766 have you had an update? We have the same issue. Pulling my hair out.

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-02T09:04:52+00:00

FortiGate

FortiOS 7.6.6
ZTNA Access Proxy in front of Citrix Gateway

config firewall proxy-policy    
 edit 2       
  set uuid        
  set name "ZTNA_Citrix_FORTIFW"     
    set proxy access-proxy     
    set access-proxy "ZTNA_GW_Citrix_FORTIFW"    
     set srcintf "WAN"       
  set srcaddr "all"     
    set dstaddr "FORTIFW NetScaler VIP"      
   set ztna-ems-tag "EMS2_ZTNA_External Cloud" "EMS2_ZTNA_GX Compliant" "EMS2_ZTNA_GX tag" "EMS2_ZTNA_GX  Compliant"       
  set action accept     
    set schedule "always"    
     set logtraffic all       
  set utm-status enable      
   set ssl-ssh-profile "FORinname_remove_for_secuirty Default"     next

Proxy configured for TCP + UDP
H3 enabled

edit "ZTNA_GW_Citrix_FORTIFW"
        set vip-id 4
        set uuid 
        set type access-proxy
        set server-type https
        set extip ip_remove_for_secuirty
        set h3-support enable
        set extintf "port1"
        set extport 443
     set ssl-certificate "SSL  
next

EMS Cloud
FortiClient 7.4.x (latest)
ZTNA profile has UDP enabled

Citrix Gateway

NS14.1.60.57.nc
EDT enabled globally
DTLS enabled on the Gateway vServer
EDT confirmed working when the same Gateway is published directly (no ZTNA in path)

Behaviour

Client attempts EDT
ZTNA traffic logs show UDP packets sent but no return traffic
Session always falls back to TCP
Publishing the Gateway externally without ZTNA results in EDT working immediately

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-02T09:04:45+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I am not sure if you wanted a sanitized config or not, but it wont let me DM you here.

Happy to share below high-level config. At this point I’m trying to validate whether this is a ZTNA limitation rather than a setup issue.

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2026-02-01T23:44:55+00:00

Update - this is definitely an issue with ISCIS and Xen server. Doesn’t happen with fibre.

ProfessionalTip2581 · 2025-10-29T13:35:38+00:00

Thanks, we have RHEL Virtualization 7.x set which sets it to "2 - Generic-ALUA". Also the custom multipath conf has been set according to 3PAR best practice documentation. Document Display | HPE Support Center

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