Mar 052018
 
PowerShell: find a process owner in a Citrix XenApp / Microsoft RDS environment

The PowerShell Get-Process commandlet cannot return the process owner in the v3 implementation. In PowerShell v4, the Get-Process cmdlet now has a “-IncludeUserName” parameter but it will only run as elevated (administrator). I’ve been searching for an optimized script, running in a non-elevated context. But all I’ve found was slow and high resource demanding scripts […]

Feb 212018
 
FSLogix Local Profiles Migration Script

I plagiarized David Ott’s script for migration of Citrix Profile Manager (UPM) profiles to FSLogix and created it for Local Profiles. NOTE: This only works between like profile versions.  eg. You can’t migrate your 2008R2 profiles to Server 2016 and expect it to work.  See this chart. This requires using frx.exe, which means that FSLogix […]

Feb 152018
 
OneDrive folder redirection in XenApp 7.15

My client wanted to redirect the personal documents for the published applications in XenApp to the local OneDrive folder on the user’s devices, and if possible, to create a OneDrive folder shortcut in XenApp looking exactly as the local OneDrive client in the file explorer. Mission accomplished. Discover how I have done it in this […]

Dec 202017
 
Upgrading Persistent MCS VDAs (Automated)

In my environment I have nearly 100 persistent MCS VDAs. Our developers, contractors, and even us IT people need the ability to change things on our VDI desktops (install/uninstall/set registry/create local IIS sites/etc.) and have them persist reboots. Luckily, the only software I have to maintain on these desktops is the VDA itself. That still […]

Oct 242017
 
Citrix UPM Profiles to FSLogix Profiles Conversion Powershell Script

NOTE: This only works between like profile versions.  eg. You can’t migrate your 2008R2 profiles to Server 2016 and expect it to work.  See this chart. I moved from UPM to FSLogix earlier this year, and decided to write my own powershell script to convert the UPM profiles to .vhd.  FSLogix has its own conversion […]

Jul 252017
 

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 […]