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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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1.7
11 Oct 2013 · 5 min read

Java Runtimes JRE7 - Your Java version is insecure popup

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

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Automate
8 Jul 2013 · 4 min read

Citrix XenDesktop 7 – Create Persistent Hypervisor Connection and Hosting Unit, Unattended

I blogged about how to automate Citrix XenDesktop 7 deployment and database creation, and how to join and existing XenDesktop 7 site unattended, but now to continue and go a

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automation
6 Jul 2013 · 4 min read

Citrix XenDesktop 7 - Unattended from scratch

So auto-install and auto join an already XenDesktop 7 Site is cool but what if you need to automate the first DDC installation ? Here is how I did with help

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Citrix
27 Jun 2013 · 2 min read

Citrix XenDesktop 7 - VDA Installation

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

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automation
26 Jun 2013 · 3 min read

Citrix XenDesktop 7 - Unattended Installation + Site join

We all need to automate things, we need to fast deploy, fast provision and stay lazy, not doing the same thing every day… So let check how we can industrialize

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