Clonepost from my blog. There are some good guides out there (such as Carl Stalhood’s) that cover the details of setting up Citrix App Layering, but currently don’t have a birds eye overview of what an App Layering implementation requires. After going through many of these hurdles myself, I considered that a “light on the […]
I have been using Full Desktop’s inside of XenApp forever. Lately I have been working on a project where I will be using only published apps. We are a CSP and a managed service provider who uses LabTech (Now ConnectWise Automate) to control all of our systems. LabTech uses a great remote access product called […]
Original Post The first script I wrote was from before Citrix added real powershell functionality into PVS. This new script leverages the new powershell module. I am not exactly sure when they first added this into PVS (if you know please comment below), but this was developed using PVS 7.12. Pay attention to comments marked […]
Problem: In my environment I have about 300 provisioned desktops, and when I update the vDisk sometimes it can take a while (days) before all of the VMs get the latest version. Especially, in the case of a roll back I need a good way to get all of the VMs which are on the […]
I recently ran into an issue after upgrading my XenDesktop environment to 7.12 from 7.11. Prior to that update I was able to create MCS desktops in my XenServer pool with no issues. After upgrading to 7.12 the newly created VMs would not register with the delivery controller, and according to XenServer they did not […]
Background Using Citrix Profile Management with profile streaming enabled should keep your logon times pretty low. Recently, they updated the version of our Antivirus (Trend Micro) to the latest, and suddenly I started seeing desktops fail with “session prepare failure” errors. After much investigation it had something to do with the behavior monitoring feature of […]
Environment XenApp 7.6 700+ Delivered (published) Applications 60+ Windows servers (2008 R2 and 2012 R2) Scenario Recently I had a request to replicate 100+ applications from PROD to QA, using QA server configured with identical applications and identical application locations/paths. Obviously all paths to EXE files need to be the same in order for this […]
As in my previous post we are querying the Citrix monitordata tables in SQL instead of doing web queries against ODATA because it is super fast. The script needs to run as a user who has at least read rights to the database. Just like the original it will query the monitordata tables to gather […]
CLICK HERE FOR UPDATED VERSION My boss wanted a report to show the usage of our XenDesktop environment (desktop sessions only), so I wrote a script that queries the delivery controller once per minute to get sessions. It then writes that information to an .xml file, and then I have another script that reads the […]
This will be short and sweet (hopefully sweet). If you have a session recording server setup you may notice that the entries/files don’t go away on their own. Here is how to clean them up: Just create a scheduled task to run the code below once per day (as system – elevated): C:\Program Files\Citrix\SessionRecording\Server\Bin\icldb.exe remove /RETENTION:7 […]