Author Archives | Carl Webster
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BriForum 2013 London Presentation (More things in AD that can hurt your Application and Desktop Virtualization efforts and how to fix them)
Greetings, If you came to my presentation at BriForum 2013 in London, thanks for being there. I would like to thank the following people for their help in putting together the information. Michael B.
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Using My Citrix PVS PowerShell Documentation Script with Remoting
March 15, 2013
I needed to figure out how to run my latest PVS documentation script without having Microsoft Word installed on the PVS server. This turned out to be much simpler than I thought it would be. There
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Documenting a Citrix XenApp 6 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell and Word – Version 3
February 21, 2013
The script to document a Citrix XenApp 6 farm has proven to be very popular. I had not always wanted to take the time to create a version of the script that would output to a Microsoft Word document
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Documenting a Citrix Provisioning Services Farm with Microsoft PowerShell and Word – Version 2
February 20, 2013
The script to document a Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) farm has proven to be very popular. I have always wanted to take the time to create a version of the script that would output to a Microso
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“10 Things in AD” Video from the E2E Conference in Hamburg, Germany
February 18, 2013
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Here is the video from my “10 Things in AD” session at the E2E Conference in Hamburg, Germany. http://tinyurl.com/E2E10ThingsinAD This is a public link so feel free to share. Hope to see y
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Using My Citrix XenApp 6.5 PowerShell Documentation Script with Remoting
January 8, 2013
I received an email from a reader wanting to get my Citrix XenApp 6.5 Farm PowerShell documentation script to work remotely. After I wrote my original script and article, Citrix updated the XenApp 6
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Listing Windows Firewall Rules Using Microsoft PowerShell
November 16, 2012
At a customer site recently, I needed a way to list all the Enabled Windows Firewall Inbound Rules. I could not get what I needed by using the Windows netsh advfirewall monitor show firewall rule na
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E2E 2012 Hamburg, Germany Presentation (10 things in AD that can hurt your Application and Desktop Virtualization efforts and how to fix them)
November 3, 2012
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Greetings, If you came to my presentation at the Experts to Experts Conference in Hamburg, Germany thanks for being there. This presentation is different from the Synergy San Francisco version in that
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Synergy 2012 Barcelona Geek Speak Live Presentation (10 things in AD that can hurt XenDesktop or XenApp and how to fix them)
October 18, 2012
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Greetings, If you came to my presentation at Synergy 2012 in Barcelona, thanks for being there. I would like to thank the following people for their help in putting together the information and for ve
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BriForum 2012 Chicago Presentation (10 things in AD that can hurt your Application and Desktop Virtualization efforts and how to fix them)
July 25, 2012
Greetings, If you came to my presentation at BriForum 2012 in Chicago, thanks for being there. This presentation is different from the Synergy version in that I added content for: Server 2012 AD Qu
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Post Citrix Synergy 2012 Presentation for AGSI (10 things in AD that can hurt XenDesktop or XenApp and how to fix them)
June 14, 2012
Greetings, If you came to my presentation at AGSI’s Post Citrix Synergy 2012 event in Charlotte, NC thanks for being there. I would like to thank the following people for their help in putting t
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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)
May 11, 2012
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
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Documenting a Citrix XenDesktop 4 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell
March 12, 2012
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
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How To Digitally Sign a Microsoft PowerShell Script with a Third-Party Code Signing Certificate (Update April 4, 2012)
September 30, 2011
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
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Where to Get Copies of the Various Scripts
September 30, 2011
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.
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Finding Mismatched Citrix XenApp 5 Servers Using Microsoft PowerShell
September 28, 2011
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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 Enterp
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Connection timed out (0x4c126035) Connecting to vDisk on Citrix Provisioning Services Server
August 15, 2011
In Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 SP1, when setting a new device to boot from vDisk using XenServer 5.6 SP2, the following error was received (Figure 1): Could not boot from filename “ardpb32.bin
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Learning to Install Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0
August 12, 2011
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 a
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Adding an SSD Storage Device to Citrix XenServer
June 18, 2011
[Update 26Mar2019. See Updated section below.] Note: This still works for XenServer 8.2 In the process of creating Virtual Machines (VMs) for labs for a customer, I needed to have 10VMs running at the
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Weird Errors and the Mysterious Root Cause
February 13, 2011
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Over the past few months I have come across several seemingly unrelated issues that all had one root cause. There was not any typical correlation between the servers. Citrix software was everythin
May 16, 2013
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