Carl Webster

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

While creating the XenApp 6.5 script and article, I came across numerous typos in the original XenApp 6 files. I have corrected the typos (i.e. priniting) in the XenApp 6 script and recreated the signed copy of the script also. I have also updated the XenApp 6 article with the corrections. Updated scripts: http://carlwebster.com/where-to-get-copies-of-the-xenapp-farm-documentation-scripts/ Update [...]

A customer site I was at recently needed their XenApp 5 farm documented. I remembered reading about Citrix having some PowerShell “stuff” for XenApp 5 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 short [...]

I recently wrote an article on using Microsoft PowerShell to document a Citrix XenApp 6.0 farm.  I am also in the process of finishing up follow-up articles for XenApp 5 and XenApp 6.5.  One of the options I wanted to make available is a digitally signed copy of the script used in that article.  As [...]

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.

A customer site I was at recently needed their new XenApp 6 farm documented. I remembered reading about Citrix having some PowerShell “stuff” for XenApp 6 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 [...]

Have you ever worked with a customer that had multiple Citrix license servers and product editions?  I worked with a client recently that had upgraded their Citrix XenApp product licenses from Enterprise to Platinum and had moved to a new Citrix license server.  Their problem was that they, over the years, had an unknown number [...]