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Set acls remotely to a VDI / RDSH Delivery Group

April 5, 2016November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Acls, automation, Citrix, Microsoft, PowerShell, script, XenApp, XenDesktop

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In the same way as the previous blog post, some more automation to maintain a VDI/RDSH environment, and get back to a controlled and clean environment. This blog is a follow up to Remotely clean up Virtual Machines drives – XenDesktop , Expand virtual machines hard disk – automation , XenDesktop XenApp 7.x – vmware / ad...

Remotely clean up Virtual Machines drives – XenDesktop

April 4, 2016November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion automation, clean, hard drive, PowerShell, script, XenApp, XenDesktop

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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 to clean up the D: drive of different XenDesktop Delivery Group. As there was no security restriction on the D: drive some users used it...

Expand virtual machines hard disk – automation

March 30, 2016November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion automation, disk, diskpart, expand, PowerShell, PVS, scrupt, VDI, vmware, XenApp, XenDesktop

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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 you redirect Windows Event Logs, Logs (UPM for example and/or other applications – services) This is a drive where page file is often redirected as well...

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

March 30, 2016November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion automation, PowerShell, Scripting, vmware, vSphere, XenApp, XenDesktop

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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 need to be able to link an Active Directory computer account to a vm with XenApp / XenDesktop delivery group has often been seen as...

Java Runtimes JRE7 – Your Java version is insecure popup

October 11, 2013November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion 1.7, 1.7_13, Global Preference Policie, GPP, Java, Java7, JRE, Windows, wmi, WMI Filter, XenApp, XenDesktop

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This one has been pain in the ass to find out… Since Java 7 (1.7_xx) the security and setting management is a total nightmare. This is so messy you can’t find a reliable information on Oracle website… The worse thing is all the mechanism seems to change between versions… from 1.7_01 to _11 is one...

Citrix XenDesktop 7 – VDA Installation

June 27, 2013November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Citrix, Microsoft, vda, Windows, XenDesktop, XenDesktop 7

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The VDA version delivered with XenDesktop 7 bits is 7.0.0.3018 The VDA can be deployed two ways, via the GUI setup and in an unattended way. Using the GUI is easy and can be done very quickly – but it remains manual deployment. Here are screenshot so for the one who won’t have time to...

Citrix XenDesktop 7 – Installation

June 26, 2013November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Citrix, edgesight, MCS, Provisioning Services, PVS, Receiver, StoreFront, XenDesktop, XenDesktop 7, XenServer

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XenDesktop 7 is now available with different features and entitlements (link) and yes there is a lot to read on this webpage but most of everything is already known features. So I will just write now what I read between the line : No more Citrix Streaming Application (RIP) in favor of Microsoft APP-V XenServer...

Citrix Excalibur Tech Preview – Installation

November 1, 2012November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Architecture, Avalon, Citrix, Excalibur, Merlin, Project, Provisioning Services, Receiver, XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer

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Now we can play with Excalibur, I will split Overview, Installation and Configuration into 3 separate blog, so you can check it ASAP and navigate more easily in the blog part you need to check. Of course this blog is here to give you an overview of this new release for the one who don’t...