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Citrix, CTP, Experience, Provisioning Services, XenApp, XenDesktop
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 speak about Citrix. To remind people not familiar with MCS or PVS here are the main differences : MCS : Machine Creation Service PVS :...
Citrix, Microsoft, PowerShell, Scripting, Windows 2008 R2, XenApp
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 : Then you can use few very useful command to gather information and script your deployment / inventory. That’s what you got access to,...
Citrix, Microsoft, PowerShell, Provisioning Services, Windows 2008 R2, XenApp, XenDesktop
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 the company I’m working for there is always the AntiVirus dude who is yelling and requesting to be able to watch / watch and be able to...
Citrix, Microsoft, Windows 2008 R2, XenApp
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 a worker server (PVS Golden image) while installing this update. The error : “Error 25822. Setup could not install the drivers required for this product.” stop...
Citrix, Experience, Microsoft, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows XP, XenApp, XenDesktop
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, Microsoft, RDS, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, XenApp
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 more painful when roaming profiles need to be store on the same drive. This is the default behaviour for roaming and local profile creation, their...
Access Gateway, Apple, Citrix, CloudGateway, Experience, iOS, Microsoft, Receiver, ShareFile, Storefront Receiver, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, Windows 8, XenApp, XenDesktop
One more time for those who won’t have time to try another release here is a short and simple blog about Citrix CloudGateway 2.5, you’ll be able to read and see accross this blog post different steps and screens to setup the AppControler. New version are coming along with every time as much new features...
Citrix, CloudGateway, Experience, Personal vDisk, Provisioning Services, Receiver, Storefront Receiver, User Profile Management, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, Windows 7, Windows 8, XenApp, XenClient, XenDesktop, XenServer
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...
