Oct 312014
 

I have seen where PVS targets (mainly Desktop OS) will fail to activate via KMS after booting, and/or not get the proper group policy settings.  I think this is because PVS hasn’t released the network when Windows is trying to activate/update gpo (or something along those lines).  On top of this in my environment I […]

Jun 032014
 
Citrix XenApp - Automate Discovery

I am in the process of building out a new XenApp environment for a customer, and was thinking… “It would be so nice to automate the ‘Configure and run discovery’ settings”. So how do you accomplish this? I know my service desk would appreciate it! The answer is a custom “MMC”. Below are the steps […]

May 302014
 
MultiDomain NS Setup with single AG Vserver and single pair of WI Servers.

This will go over how to setup a single Access Gateway Vserver connecting to Multiple Domains using a single Pair of web interface servers.  This might sound confusing at first but in reality its pretty strait forward.  This article assumes that you already have some basic knowledge of how to setup netscaler and xenapp with […]

Jan 072014
 
Multi-Stream ICA and Cisco QOS

I’m not going to go into the details about what Multi-Stream ICA (MSI) is in this article. I assume you already have a basic understanding of what this is and you are really just here to figure out how to configure it. If you do not, a great Citrix blog about Multi-Stream ICA has been […]

Apr 032013
 
64 Bit Icons revisited

Today I got stuck publishing apps that had icons in the %windir%\System32\ folder on the XenApp server.  There are a couple ways around this but my personal favorite is to reference sysnative. So lets say your trying to publish the TS Licensing Manager, the exe only sits in the 64 bit OS Path on 2008r2 […]

Apr 032013
 

So I like to have a group that can run every and all published application so I can login and at least smoke test them. Thats far to much clicking for me, so powershell to the rescue.

Those 3 lines gets Citrix_Admins into EVERY published application, not to shabby. Lets take it a bit […]