Windows 2008 – Stéphane Thirion

Remotely clean up Virtual Machines drives – XenDesktop

Following up the previous blogs XenDesktop XenApp 7.x – vmware / ad / delivery group notes and descriptions sync and Expand virtual machines hard disk – automation and continue in automated task, I had…

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Changing UserProfile storage default location

At many customer place and even more often now RDS and XenApp servers are virtual I see C: drives (System drives) full without a tiny byte left… This is even…

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XenDesktop 4 vs XenDesktop 5, differences ?

If you’re used to check the IMA service and verify if everything is running fine on your XenDesktop 4 or XenApp environment, you won’t find any IMA in XenDesktop 5.…

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Citrix – Project Alcatraz Technology Concept

Warning : For those who download Alcatraz before the 2nd of December 2010, please update it, same link. An issue around leaking desktop handles is affecting v0.9.0.31, when you update…

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XenApp Power and Capacity Management with provisioned machines

Provisioning XenApp 6 Servers is very easy and make everything very simple but using third party Citrix products like EdgeSight or Power and Capacity Management can be tricky in order…

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Remote Desktop published application – Double upper case issue

At one of my customer place, we need to publish mstsc.exe (RDP Client) through XenApp 4.5 on Windows 2008 x64. Users complained about a weird keyboard behaviour. While typing in…

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Citrix XenApp – Hiding system drives part 2/2

This is the second part, here is the link to the first part : Citrix XenApp – Hiding system drives part 1/2 If you read the first part, now you…

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Citrix XenApp – Hiding system drives part 1/2

Hiding system drives C, D, floppy if there is still one and CDRom seems to be easy but I saw many many time at some customer’s place administrator unable to…