Carl Webster

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 [...]

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 [...]

Portable Document Format (PDF) files are a popular way to transfer documents between computer users.  A PDF file retains formatting for the file being transferred.  There are over 600 free viewers available on http://www.download.com which allow the viewing of PDF files. In this article, you will learn: how to sign up to distribute the free [...]

During the design phase of a XenApp server installation, a common question is whether to remap the server’s drive letters.  If a server has one hard drive partition and one CD-ROM drive the driver letters assigned by Windows are C and D respectively.  The Accidental Citrix Admin may find his users confused when they go [...]

Java Runtime Installation Failure (Error 1330) Update:  June 30, 2011.  Oracle has changed some of the screens for JRE Update 26.  This article has been updated at the bottom of the original article. When trying to install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 24 at a client site recently, I kept getting the error below [...]

In the process of creating Virtual Machines (VMs) for labs for a customer, I needed to have 10VMs running at the same time.  My XenServer host uses a 1.5TB local SATA drive for VM storage and an iSCSI storage server.  I can’t use the storage server for these VMs as I will be taking my [...]

The most frequently asked question from people who read my Learning the Basics of … series for XenApp 5 on Server 2003 is “why is the Delivery Services Console broken?”  I get this question so often; I updated Part 4 and Part 5 of the series but have also decided to put out a separate [...]

I recently had an almost disastrous experience with my lab XenServer host.  After that episode, I decided I needed to find a way too reliably and easily backup and restore virtual machines (VMs). On a couple of mailing lists I subscribe to, I have seen people mention PHD Virtual for doing backups of their VMs [...]

In Part 3 of this 4 Part series, the PowerShell script from Parts 1 and 2 was modified to list all the offline Citrix XenApp servers in a XenApp farm by Zone and validate the Zone name entered.  The original question was could PowerShell be used to get a list of offline servers.  The answer [...]

In Part 2 of this 4 Part series, the PowerShell script from Part 1 was modified to list all the offline Citrix XenApp servers in a XenApp farm by Zone.  While the script works and gives the desired output, there is a bug in that an invalid Zone can be entered which causes the script [...]