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

I really like using my Apple iPad for accessing published applications on my Citrix XenApp servers hosted on Citrix XenServer 5.6.  I had four problems I thought were related to the Citrix Receiver for iPad.  From comments made by customers and from questions posed on Experts Exchange, I am not the only one experiencing these [...]

When Creating a Server Management Group Policy on Windows Server 2003, there are two options that can be set to either Hide or Prevent users from working with the server’s drives: Hide these specified drives in My Computer Prevent access to drives from My Computer When these options are enabled, there is a drop down [...]

In Part 6 of this 7-part article, you learned how to create a Web Interface site and do basic configuration of that site to allow users access. In Part 7, you will create a test user account, learn to publish applications, test access to the published applications from the Web Interface site and learn basic XenApp server administrative tasks.

In Part 5 of this series, you learned how to find hotfixes and updates for XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008 and tell if a hotfix applies to your farm. In Part 6, you will learn to create a Web Interface site and do basic configuration of that site to allow users access.