XenDesktop 7

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

July 8, 2013November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion Automate, automation, network, Provisioning Services, pvDisk, PVS, Storage, Unattended, vmware, vmware esx, vSphere, XenDesktop, XenDesktop 7, XenServer, XenServer 6.2

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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 XenDesktop 7 – Unattended from scratch

July 5, 2013November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion automation, PowerShell, Unattended, XenDesktop, XenDesktop 7

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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 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 – Unattended Installation + Site join

June 26, 2013November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion automation, Industrialization, Unattend, Unattended, XenDesktop, XenDesktop 7

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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 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 Storefront 2 (Preview) vs WebInterface

May 31, 2013November 5, 2019

Stephane Thirion AppControler, Citrix, CloudGateway, HTML5, Receiver, StoreFront, Storefront vs WebInterface, webinterface, XenDesktop, XenDesktop 7

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A new version of Strorefront is coming along with XenDesktop 7. There are a lot of change in this version comparing to the previous one but first here is a quick internal architecture of Storefront Services : What have changed with Storefront ? No more external database HTML5 Client improved Desktop Appliance Site Session pre-launch (for XenApp...

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