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 [...]

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 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.

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 [...]

When executing the “Configure Database” wizard for a XenApp farm, the following error is given (Figure 1): A connection could not be established with the specified database Unknown error occurred: error code 0x8200003e

WHEW!!! I honestly never thought I would get the PVS and XenApp article completed. I swear, if you put ten Citrix Consultants in a room you will get, at a minimum, 50 different viewpoints on how PVS should be installed, configured and maintained. This three-part series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) started out to [...]

Prepare the Master Image for Updating In Part 2, you learned how to: Create a master image, Create a vDisk in PVS for the master image, Install Target Device software, Use XenAppPrep, Download XenConvert, Optimize a master image, Use XenConvert, and Test streaming a new image. In this Part 3, you will learn how to: [...]

Creating the Master Image In Part 1, you learned how to: Prepare to install PVS, Install PVS 5.6 SP1, and Perform basic configuration of PVS 5.6 SP1. In this Part, you will learn how to: Create a master image, Create a vDisk in PVS for the master image, Install Target Device software, Use XenAppPrep, Download [...]

Building servers manually — that means one at a time – is a long-standing and honorable tradition in Information Technology (IT) organizations.  And it needs to stop! There are many issues that can arise when manually building servers. However, one of the most dangerous and insidious problems is that inconsistencies in those server builds are [...]