Session prelaunch is a feature of XenApp 6.5 that was eventually brought back to the FMA architecture. So, what’s it all about again? The basic goal is to improve user experience. How does it do

Greetings, Back on February 2nd 2015, I noticed that all my view and downloads counts had been reset to 0. It seems there was an issue with the WordPress plugin I was using to track the counts of view

Jacob Rutski has updated his VMware vCenter documentation script to version 1.2. Jacob added Import\Export functionality to enable a system to run the script without needing MS Word and export to XML

With all the writing I do for my website and customers, I recreate my Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory (AD) environment frequently.  Sometimes I just need a fresh start and I need to demote my

With all the writing I do for my website and customers, I recreate my Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory (AD) environment frequently.  I thought I would show you how, in just a few seconds, I re

One of Jacob’s testers found a bug in the script where the PDF file was not created. This turned out to be a bug in the master template script. While I was fixing the PDF bug I found out that wh

Recently, I was involved in my first HP Moonshot Proof of Concept (PoC). HP Moonshot is a fairly new technology that can be used to provide hosted desktops to users with Citrix XenDesktop 7.x.  If yo

On a recent project, the customer needed a way to see what they had in their numerous Active Directory (AD) forests. I offered to create a script and they gave me permission to do so. After creating t

I am currently creating documentation scripts for Active Directory (AD) and Microsoft DHCP. In doing so, I have learned some new stuff and decided to implement those changes into the current document

Yeah, I know.  I just updated the script a couple of days ago and here is another update.  Well, I just couldn’t stand it that the script couldn’t support sending email over anything but

While testing my XenDesktop 7.1 lab, I had one of my PVS servers powered off.  When I ran the PVS documentation script, I got an error about the server not responding while processing the bootstrap f

Hi again! First of all, the opinions I express below are my own, not necessarily those of the godfather of this website, Carl Webster. Earlier this year, Citrix held Summit, their Partner Conference.

Scenario: You are locked out of the Delivery Services Console or AppCenter or AppCentre and you need in.  How?  There is a tool called SlimJim you can use or you can use one line of PowerShell.  Ob

In October 2008, I went to the Citrix Summit in Orlando.  There I attended a XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008 Hands-on lab taught by Jo Harder of Citrix.  Later during the Summit I saw Jo standin

In October 2008, I went to the Citrix Summit in Orlando.  There I attended a XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008 Hands-on lab taught by Jo Harder of Citrix.  Later during the Summit I saw Jo standin

Updated 14-SEP-2013. One of the most requested features being added to Version 4 of the documentation scripts is support for non-English versions of Microsoft Word.  The script currently supports the

It’s time for another curious case. Let’s set the stage first. We all know the great Smooth Roaming feature, right? Well, we should anyway because that feature is shown in demos at any Cit

Greetings, If you came to my presentation at BriForum 2013 in Chicago, thanks for being there. I would like to thank the following people for their help in putting together the information. Michael B.

I am in the process of rebuilding my lab with Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V 3 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM).  This rebuilding project has become quite a learning experien

Greetings, If you came to my presentation at E2E 2013 in Copenhagen, thanks for being there. I would like to thank the following people for their help in putting together the information. Michael B. S