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Stephane Thirion

Hi I'm Stephane Thirion
Saint-Germain-en-Laye https://www.archy.net 322 posts
automation
30 Mar 2016 · 4 min read

Expand virtual machines hard disk - automation

Sometimes, at some customers’s place, with an infrastructure already in place (XenApp with PVS or XenDesktop VDI pooled with PVS) the D: drive is too small. The drive where

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automation
30 Mar 2016 · 2 min read

XenDesktop XenApp 7.x - vmware / ad / delivery group notes and descriptions sync

Several times i had the need to synchronise Virtual Machine notes (vmware) with Active Directory Computer description. As in big environment, different team are managing each of these components, the

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20 Apr 2015 · 3 min read

Netscaler : Invalid argument [ns] error while logon on UI (admin)

When you did customize your Access Gateway theme, you might have this error trying to logon on the admin page of your Netscaler. No worries there is a simple solution

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Access Gateway
7 Mar 2015 · 5 min read

Netscaler Gateway X1 theme

What I like when I access my virtual desktops and applications is consistency thought different systems, front web and UI… Citrix have try with the green bubble theme to bring

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Citrix
5 Mar 2015 · 3 min read

Citrix Storefront X1

Storefront is evolving and Citrix is finaly out of the green bubble template with a soft and neat design for this Technology Preview. Storefront X1 (aka v2.7) Here is

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2 Jan 2015 · 1 min read

Happy New Year 2015 !

I wish to all of you a very happy new year ! I wish you success and be geek, be happy, don’t forget to share your knowledge ! Stephane

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13 Dec 2014 · 2 min read

Citrix Receiver 11.9.0 for Mac color issue

I had this weird issue on my iMac 27″ running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 with the Citrix Receiver 11.9.0 while installing it. The color of my

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Load Balancing TFTP with Netscaler 10.5 Citrix
17 Sep 2014 · 5 min read

Load Balancing TFTP with Netscaler 10.5

Implementing Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) is very common nowaday when it’s about deploying Shared Desktops (XenApp) or Pooled, Private or Personal Desktops (XenDesktop). If there are still some debate

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Access Gateway
24 Jul 2014 · 4 min read

Netscaler 10.5 and Storefront 2.5.2 Configuration

Citrix Netscaler 10.5 is out since a couple of weeks now, and if you want to read what’s new about this new release just click on the [link]

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XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7.5 Migration (Machine) automation
24 Apr 2014 · 3 min read

XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7.5 Migration (Machine)

Citrix will very soon offer a lot of scripts and tools to give the ability to migrate policies from a XenApp 6.5 farm to a XenApp 7.5, I’

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Crystal ball
18 Apr 2014 · 2 min read

Are we missing something ?

As you might know I’m the CTO of a super cool company here in France (Activlan) base around Paris and one side of my job is to watch in

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Citrix
17 Apr 2014 · 2 min read

Citrix PVS vs MCS - Despectus

I know this subject has been cover thousand times here and there but this is an eternal discussion we have whatever the forum or the meeting going on when we

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Citrix
15 Apr 2014 · 5 min read

List XenApp 6.5 hotfixes with PowerShell

This is a classic but needs to be written somewhere so I can find it again when I need it ! First thing, you need to add the XenApp Powershell snapin

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Azure
19 Jan 2014 · 7 min read

Cloudify my lab with Windows Azure

As I got an unlimited access to Windows Azure I wanted to check out how I could extend my lab into it and use it to store VMs workload (at

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antivirus
7 Jan 2014 · 2 min read

Trend ServerProtect 5.80, XenApp 6.5 / PVS

AntiVirus software are always pain in the ass when it’s about delivering desktops through golden images system like Citrix Provisioning Services. It’s changing but still, in most of

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AppControler
3 Jan 2014 · 1 min read

Citrix Storefront 2.1 vs WebInterface

The 2.1 version of Strorefront came along with XenDesktop 7.1. There are few changes in this version comparing to the previous one and on the internal architecture of

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25822
3 Jan 2014 · 5 min read

XenApp 6.5 HRP3 install failled with error 25822

Citrix XenApp 6.5 Hotfix Rollup Pack 3 is available since the 12nd of December 2013 (link) and I went through several deployment until today. I got this error on

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2013
19 Dec 2013 · 1 min read

Happy holidays !

2013 has been a very busy year again, I met up a lot of known faces around the world and so many new people as well. This is always very

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