Hello, faithful readers. After writing for dabcc.com for 2.5 years, I have returned to my roots at CarlWebster.com, home of the Accidental Citrix Admin. I truly enjoyed writing for DABCC. It was a blast. But a new party has begun at CarlWebster.com (and Joe Shonk is paying for the drinks <grin>). So stay tuned to [...]
September 30, 2011
Where to Get Copies of the Various Documentation Scripts
Many people have asked me where they can get copies of the PowerShell documentation scripts. To make it easier to find, I have linked to all of them in this one article.
May 11, 2012
Synergy 2012 San Francisco Geek Speak Live Presentation (10 things in AD that can hurt XenDesktop or XenApp and how to fix them)
Greetings, If you came to my presentation at Citrix Synergy 2012 in San Francisco, thanks for being there. I would like to thank the following people for their help in putting together the information and for verifying its accuracy and up-to-dateness. Michael B. Smith, Exchange MVP, http://TheEssentialExchange.com Brian Desmond, Directory Services MVP, http://BrianDesmond.com Andrew S. [...]
April 13, 2012
Documenting a Citrix Provisioning Services Farm with Microsoft PowerShell
A customer site I was at recently needed their Provisioning Services (PVS) farm documented. Since I had already created PowerShell scripts to document the various versions of XenApp, I figured a PVS script should be easy to create. I could not have been more wrong in my thinking! This article and script were written on [...]
April 4, 2012
All XenApp and XenDesktop Signed Scripts Have Been Updated on April 4, 2012
Brian Desmond informed me my signed scripts will not work after my code signing certificate expires because I did not use the -TimestampServer parameter when I signed the scripts. I have updated the original article to add using -TimestampServer and I have updated all the signed scripts. Thanks Webster
March 12, 2012
Documenting a Citrix XenDesktop 4 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell
A customer site I was at recently needed their XenDesktop 4 farm documented. Since I had already created PowerShell scripts to document the various versions of XenApp, I figured a XenDesktop script should be easy to create. This article and the script were written for “SR” at the customer site. This article will focus only [...]
January 1, 2012
Web Site Statistics (Updated May 1, 2012)
This short article is to show the Top 20 Articles, Top 20 Countries, Top 10 Referral sites and various web site statistics.
December 12, 2011
Using One Citrix Web Interface Site with Multiple XenApp Farms
I frequent Experts Exchange (http://www.experts-exchange.com/) and because of my status there, I often receive questions. Some of the questions have a common theme. Such as: “How do I show published applications to my users when I have multiple XenApp farms?” “How can I use Web Interface to migrate users to a new XenApp farm while [...]
November 3, 2011
Learning to Migrate a Citrix XenApp 6.x Data Store from SQL Server Express to SQL Server
When a Citrix XenApp 6.x Farm is created, by default, the data store is created on the first server of the Farm using an SQL Server Express database. This article will teach you how to: Backup an SQL Server Express data store, Create a new File DSN for a SQL Server data store, Migrate to the [...]
November 1, 2011
Three Years of Writing and Blogging
In October 2008, I went to the Citrix Summit in Orlando. There I attended a XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008 Hands-on lab taught by Jo Harder of Citrix. Later during the Summit I saw Jo standing in the hallway outside the lab and got up the courage to talk to her. I told Jo I was interested in writing [...]
October 9, 2011
XenApp 6 and 6.5 Documentation Scripts Updated October 9, 2011
Fellow CTP Wilco van Bragt, e-mailed me and told me that in my XenApp 6.5 script the Health Monitoring & Recovery (HMR) policy setting was not formatted properly. It took a little while to figure out how to work with the XML data returned by that policy setting. This also needed to be fixed in [...]
October 9, 2011
XenApp 5 Documentation Script Updated October 9, 2011
Fellow CTP Wilco van Bragt, e-mailed me and told me that in my XenApp 6.5 script the Health Monitoring & Recovery (HMR) policy setting was not formatted properly. While looking into this issue, I found that I had not even included the HMR settings in the XenApp 5 script. In XenApp 5, the HMR settings [...]
October 7, 2011
Documenting a Citrix XenApp 6.5 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell
A customer site I was at recently needed their new XenApp 6.0 farm documented. I remembered reading about Citrix having some PowerShell “stuff” for XenApp 6.0 so I started searching. I came across a short article by Michael Bogobowicz Send Farm Server & Application Inventory By Email — XA6 PS Script located at http://community.citrix.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=148703582. That [...]
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Documenting a Citrix XenApp 6 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell
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Documenting a Citrix XenApp 6.5 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell
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Learning the Basics of Citrix XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008 (Part 7 of 7)
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Synergy 2012 San Francisco Geek Speak Live Presentation (10 things in AD that can hurt XenDesktop or XenApp and how to fix them)
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Documenting a Citrix Provisioning Services Farm with Microsoft PowerShell
- All XenApp and XenDesktop Signed Scripts Have Been Updated on April 4, 2012
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Documenting a Citrix XenDesktop 4 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell
- Web Site Statistics (Updated May 1, 2012)
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August 4, 2011
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