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• Dueling Personalization Servers

  AppSense

  Posted on May 19, 2010

  AppSense user personalization is one of the more powerful parts of the AppSense suite.  It allows a user’s customizations (desktop and application) to move with the user to their pc, laptop, or virtual desktop.  The AppSense Environment Manager handles this function.  We are stepping up a production AppSense environment and... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • AppSense
  • Environment Manager
  • Management Server
  • Reporting
  • Monitoring
  • User
  • Virtualization

• Automated CCA Install and Self-Registration

  AppSense

  Posted on May 17, 2010

  Once you have your AppSense server and databases created, you can proceed with AppSense Agent installation.  In this post we’ll cover a command-line install of the Client Communications Agent and getting the device to Self-Register. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • AppSense
  • Client Communications Agent
  • msiexec
  • User
  • Virtualization

• Creating the EM database

  AppSense

  Posted on May 14, 2010

  We are in the midst of implementing AppSense to manage our Citrix users and eventually all users in the enterprise.  It has been hard to find information in the blogosphere which I find surprising.  [Read More]

  Tags:

  • AppSense
  • Citrix
  • Environment Manager
  • MS SQL
  • SQL
  • User
  • Virtualization

• Documenting Citrix Policies

  With PowerShell

  Posted on May 12, 2010

  UPDATE: I had updated this script (updated link in the comments below), but had not updated the post with the new script. This has been done. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Citrix
  • Documentation
  • PowerShell
  • Scripting
  • XenApp

• Trending User Login Detail

  With EdgeSight

  Posted on March 30, 2010

  My colleague John Smith has started a second blog at EdgeSight Under the Hood.  He delves into the vast amount of data that EdgeSight collects and uses SQL queries to present this information in meaningful ways. Inspired by him, I’m going to write about averaging user login metrics that EdgeSight collects,... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Citrix
  • EdgeSight
  • MS SQL
  • Repost
  • Reporting
  • Monitoring
  • SQL
  • XenApp

• E-mail alert when you find a memory dump

  Wisdom-Fu

  Posted on March 23, 2010

  Note: This blog contains screenshots and references to an older version of Ivanti Automation which was developed by a company called RES Software that was aquired by Invanti. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Administration
  • BSOD
  • memory dump
  • Reporting
  • Monitoring
  • Res Wisdom

• Introducing Citrix XenApp for Windows Server 2008 R2

  Citrix TechTalk Webinar

  Posted on December 29, 2009

  I would strongly recommend that you try to attend this upcoming Citrix TechTalk Webinar about “Parra” or XenApp for 2008 R2.  I’ve seen a previous one and I’m very impressed.  A fully integrated management console (with Active Directory/GPO editing), PowerShell cmdlets, and full App-V (MS Application Virtualization/Softgrid) support.  Webinar details... [Read More]

• Stupid Citrix Tricks

  Part 2

  Posted on September 22, 2009

  While there are a variety of products in the virtualization market place, Citrix has provided alerting and monitoring with Resource Manager since the early days of MetaFrame.   Despite moving over to EdgeSight and other tools in our environments, we still utilize RM for watching certain metrics and sending e-mail alerts... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Administration
  • Citrix
  • Reporting
  • Monitoring

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