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E-mail Server Load and Assigned LE

PowerShell

Posted on April 19, 2012

Note: I recently updated this script for XenApp 7.x environments. Note: I wrote this script for a XenApp 5.0 environment with PowerShell 2.0 and CTP3 XenApp Cmdlets. Update: I found that the simple ping used with Test-Connection PowerShell cmdlet was not identifying servers that were not available for login. In... [Read More]

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What's the Point?

EdgeSight

Posted on April 18, 2012

Intro In my experience, EdgeSight is not typically deployed in XenApp environments. The reasons for this are many: It seems redundant and overlaps with an already installed solution It’s hard to use (sorry Citrix, this is a great tool, but it almost requires a dedicated resource to manage it) Most... [Read More]

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Enabling or Disabling HDX Plug-n-Play for USB Storage Devices

Posted on December 13, 2011

Intro Sometimes your security team will be your best friend, and other times they will be the “bad guy” in your IT organization. They will prevent certain applications from being installed or they will require that remote users have reduced access. Recently, I was approached by my security team to... [Read More]

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XenServer 6.0 CmdLet Poster

PowerShell

Posted on November 30, 2011

Fire up your large format printers! The fine folks at X-Tech have put together an exhaustive (and large) poster showing all the existing and new cmdlets for managing XenServer through PowerShell. A small part of the poster as an example. Get your copy here. Value for Value If you received... [Read More]

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Creating an ISO Partition on DOM0

XenServer

Posted on November 18, 2011

Intro I recently updated my lab machine to XenServer 6.0 and I wanted to create a local ISO repository on the DOM0 partition. I have 3 physical drives, one 250GB drive that holds the host partition and its backup and two 500GB drives that host VM’s. I know that only... [Read More]

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Message of the Day

PowerShell

Posted on September 27, 2011

Intro In an effort to be more communicative with our users on changes made to our XenApp servers we decided to create a message of the day. Here are the criteria we decided on: The message would show as part of the user’s startup script when logging into XenApp/XenDesktop The... [Read More]

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Check for Dump Files and Alert

PowerShell

Posted on September 2, 2011

Intro Citrix Provisioning Services has become a cornerstone technology in many XenApp and XenDesktop deployments. Provisioned devices rely on a write-cache to store new data while they are running and Citrix best practice recommends pointing pagefiles, event logs, and other write-intensive files to this write-cache. This also includes EdgeSight data. ... [Read More]

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NetScaler SYS.IID

EdgeSight for NetScaler

Posted on August 19, 2011

The new version of EdgeSight for NetScaler 2.1 was released 7/21/2011. You can get it here (mycitrix login required). I’m setting up the new EdgeSight for NetScaler 2.1 and need to add my NetScalers to it. Here’s a quick step-by-step on adding a NetScaler. Log into the Web Console and... [Read More]

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