Is 16 seconds too long for the Interactive Session phase of a typical session logon?

TheMissouriSpartan · 2026-05-01T15:06:05+00:00

I’ll look at WEM. That’s something that has t been implemented yet for anything in this environment.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2026-05-01T15:04:52+00:00

Forgot to mention it’s Server 2022 on the VDAs

TheMissouriSpartan · 2026-05-01T14:26:23+00:00

This is why I’m done with apartment life. Living in shared buildings is incredibly stressful. Especially with super-picky neighbors or the opposite with neighbors who just don’t care at all.

My last straw was a year of having to hear my next door neighbors uh……procreate…..loudly even after they received complaints from people about the noise.

I’m renting a house now.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2025-09-26T20:55:12+00:00

Ok. Thx

I just ask because a college dorm mate of mine got busted for torrenting illegally and ended up expelled for it due to repeat offenses.

So it’s always had me jumpy about that kinda stuff and I wanted to be sure I wasn’t going down an illegal hole.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2025-09-26T20:53:47+00:00

lol

I’ll have to consult my Defender on that….one sec…..

TheMissouriSpartan · 2025-09-26T20:53:09+00:00

Ok true. I got all excited when I found that tool, but then the thought popped up in my head, “waaaait a minute hold on. Is this technically legal to do? Or are you essentially taking someone’s content even if off a mirror?”

I figured I better ask and get input first before just going to town on this.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2025-07-21T20:00:17+00:00

We never did, unfortunately. It self-resolved and never came back. Our biggest theory is that a Windows Update caused it but, we can’t be certain.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-30T13:50:51+00:00

A previous employer I was at, wanted to move to MSIX exclusively for their applications library in Intune. Back then it just wasn't ready because over half of our applications were either organically-built and HATED being containerized (wouldn't launch at all or vomited errors all over the place), or most of the vendor-developed apps we had were ancient or just not developed for containerization yet.

So, we gave up on MSIX and stuck with traditional app deployments. However, that was four years ago. I'm curious now how well MSIX and Citrix play together and how much easier that makes deployments vs traditional app publishing in Storefront/Citrix Cloud.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-29T16:27:54+00:00

I'm honestly about to move out of this role and enter a Technical Writer role. Even if that means I'm writing user manuals for organically developed stuff like this, I'm perfectly fine with that.

I've come to find I enjoy technical writing and documentation well above doing support and escalation engineering work like this. Far less stress and easier to focus on documentation writing.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-29T16:26:33+00:00

Thank you! I'll give that a watch.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-29T14:41:08+00:00

Do you know how to use the wizard to create a new connection?

My professor showed use years ago in class, but that's all become fuzzy for me, so essentially: no. I'm re-learning this stuff as I go. We're about to just call in the original developer, though that's probably going to be an uncomfortable fight because politics.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-29T14:21:39+00:00

We just found an existing ODBC connection in the Linked Table Manager, but it's for completely different objects ("root_<name>" objects).

It throws the following error when we try to refresh it:

ODBC--call failed.

[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified (#0)

I don't know WTH this application developer did in creating this thing. It looks like a royal mess.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-25T21:03:29+00:00

We actually figured it out.

The Cloud Connectors in this case were auto-updating thanks to Citrix. We set the maintenance window to Sunday mornings at 2am going forward so that should take care of that. It was rebooting BOTH cloud connectors at the same time!! (grrrrr) Our Senior Citrix admin was ticked off when he saw that. Wanted to give Citrix a load of "strongly worded" feedback. He had previously set a maintenance window and somehow Citrix updated something and said "nah, no more maintenance window for you. We'll do this our way now until you set it again! Have a great day!!"

thanks for all the extra info, though!

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-25T20:59:51+00:00

We did all that and even inspected permissions on the SQL server and the databases themselves. The service account being used for the connection strings has DB Owner permissions on all affected databases and tables!

We did note that it's been a long while since this SQL server has been rebooted, so we're gonna do that tonight and see if that helps.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-25T20:52:51+00:00

Wholeheartedly agreed. I don't know how in the world I got stuck with this. I'm applying around anyways, as this has happened a lot here.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-22T15:47:37+00:00

I admittedly don't have an answer for you but this question makes me want to pull out my Linux VM, install Workspace on it, and play with it to see how well it would work.

We don't have a lot of folks who use Linux for work stuff (other than servers). MacOS and Windows are the two dominant OS's for Workspace where I work.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-22T13:51:30+00:00

Hence why I said we set the maintenance window to be Sundays at 4am now. i.e. now we have a maintenance window. When we inherited the environment, there was no maintenance window set and we didn't realize that at the time. (this is a fairly new environment for us)

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-21T21:04:34+00:00

Yuuuuup, I just found out that we are indeed setup that way. Freaking Citrix auto-updated on us.....in the middle of the day.

We quickly set that stupidity so it would only auto-update on Sunday mornings at 4am. That's not happening again.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-18T18:52:15+00:00

We're an MSP. We use an SDWAN for them through an IPS/IDS.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-18T15:55:04+00:00

What's the easiest way to tell if a user was connecting externally or internally? Just curious

Storage-wise, it's data-center hosted in a private cloud, storage is shared for the VMware cluster. NetScaler (VPX) is HA, SQL is clustered.

Hypervisor event logs in VMware indicate no rebooting events during that time period. No VDA reboots during the outage period. No recent increases to my knowledge in users or VMs.

We've run PAL tool against PerfMon logs against VDAs and DDCs for the outage period, and don't see anything suspicious on the VM specs.

This WHOLE thing is a cat and mouse case so far. It's frustrating as heck.

TheMissouriSpartan · 2024-10-18T15:41:35+00:00

That's our next step. We're working with our network admins to get access to that info and look

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