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VMware VMtools installation with XenDesktop / XenApp 7.x VDAs

November 29, 2016November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion best practices, Citrix, vda, vmtools, vmware, XenApp, XenDesktop

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It’s time to update this “popular” blog post with latest version from VMware and Citrix products. Many people still install VMware tools 10.0.6 as is and don’t try to optimize this middleware / drivers to work with Citrix VDAs 7.x. To do so, run the setup to proceed to a Custom installation And then click...

XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7.5 Migration (Machine)

April 24, 2014November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion automation, Migration, script, tools, Unattended, uninstall, vda, XenApp, XenApp 6.5, XenApp 7.5

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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 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...

vmware vmtools installation with XenDesktop VDA

August 14, 2012November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion best practices, vda, vmtools, vmware, XenDesktop

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December 2016 – Blog post updated : This is the personalized installation I do when I deploy vmtools on the VMs with VDA to install on it. Don’t forget to install vmtools before Citrix Virtual Desktop Agent ! It always good to have this information shared because I had a lot of question regarding vmware...