Having issues with print redirection on Citrix Workspace for Mac OS? Try installing the HP Color LaserJet 2800 Series PS print driver on your terminal server (Server 2019 and newer). It sounds dumb, but Citrix Universal Print Driver (UPD) uses Postscript data that is developed by HP. You can read more about this in the Citrix article at the end of the page.
To install this print driver, open printmanagement.msc on your VDA. Open up Print servers > Servername > Drivers > Add Driver
Select x64
And then Windows Update to check for drivers through Windows Update service.
If you don’t find the driver, manually download it through Windows Update Catalog, extract it with Winzip or 7Zip and select Have Disk…
Migrating the Citrix Site database to a new database server is pretty straight forward but needs to be planned since there is a downtime when making the switch.
First of all, take a backup of the database with SQL Server Management Studio and restore the database on the new server:
Select the file that has just been backed up.
Run a new query with CTRL + N and add the DDC’s (Delivery Controller) computer account:
create login [domain\ctx1$] from windows
Make sure the computer account has proper roles under Security > Logins > domain\ctx1$ > right click > properties (the computer account needs to have all permission ending with _ROLE in all three databases).
Step 1 is to remove the old database connection string:
Step 2 is to check whether you are able to connect to the new database server. If that does not work, the SQL Server Ports (UDP 1434 for SQL Server Browser and a high port for the SQL server instance) need to be enabled in Windows Firewall. You might also need to enable TCP/IP in SQL Server configuration manager if you are using SQL Server Express.
When using User/Device licensing in Citrix, licenses are occupied for up to 90 days, which is a long time if you have a limited amount of licenses. If you need to release them, here is how you can do it:
Stop the service Citrix Licensing Service, Citrix License Config Service and Citrix Support Service
Delete the following folder (or rename it, just to be sure): “C:\Program Files(x86)\Citrix\Licensing\LS\resource\cache”
Start the service Citrix Licensing Service, Citrix License Config Service and Citrix Support Service
On a Windows Server with RDS feature enabled, you might encounter an issue with Windows Update Coordinator being stuck at “Please wait while the application is preparing for the first use” during a program installation. This problem is very easy to resolve with Group Policy Editor (either locally through gpedit.msc or Domain Group Policy).
Navigate to Computer configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Application Compatibility and enable the setting “Turn off Windows Installer RDS Compatibility”.
After installing the program, I would recommend re-enabling Windows Update Coordinator by disabling the GPO setting or leaving it at “Not configured”.
If you have users complaining about incomplete search results on RDS Server 2019, especially in Outlook, this registry key might fix the problem. It did fix mine.
This will create the index database under C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows rather than in the user’s AppData folder. It should look something like this: