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Citrix, Experience, Microsoft, Scripting, Windows 2008 R2, XenApp, XenDesktop
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’m currently testing all these Powershell script to check it out and maybe use it by including it in our migration process. What Citrix haven’t give us yet...
Citrix, Microsoft, PowerShell, Provisioning Services, VMware, vSphere, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, XenDesktop, XenServer
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 bit further in the automation process, I needed and wanted to know how to automate Hosting Configuration by Adding Connection and Resources to the DDC...
Citrix, Experience, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, XenDesktop
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 of a great blog (Timm Brochhaus) who made a script available for everyone, and I personally used it. Let’s do it for a full automated installation,...
Citrix, Experience, Microsoft, PowerShell, Windows 2012, XenDesktop
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 XenDesktop 7 deployment (the easy part) and configuration (I guess the tricky part). First to deploy XenDesktop 7 using command line is simple and very...
Citrix, Experience, Microsoft, Windows 2003, XenApp
Long time I didn’t tried to install a Bloomberg component on Citrix XenApp. I know there is not a lot of information and best practices about that on internet, I think it will be a useful blog for everyone looking for information about that. First things first, I wanted to automate the deployment on several...
Citrix, Microsoft, Provisioning Services, Windows 2008 R2
Other automation blogs I posted : XenApp 6 Automation XenDesktop 5 Automation XenApp 4.5 / 5 Automation Today, I needed to prepare the deployment of Citrix PVS servers in silent mode, as usual I’m using a distribution / deployment software like Altiris or SCCM to use the scripts you will read in this blog. The...
Citrix, Microsoft, Windows 2008 R2, XenApp
If you’re looking for automation / unattended installation of Citrix XenApp 4.5 / 5 check here : XenApp 4.5 / 5 unattended installation If you need to industrialize the installation of Citrix XenApp 6, you can follow this blog to create a new farm using command line and add a new XenApp server to an...
Citrix, Microsoft, Windows 2008 R2, XenDesktop
I needed to find a way to deploy XenDesktop 5 Desktop Delivery Controller on demand, and the best way to industrialize the auto insertion in a XenDesktop 5 existing site. Of course, as the environment will be very large, I have access to an automation software like Altiris, SCCM etc… You need to know, adding...
