In the “Introduction” article, I made the following statements: For storage, I decided to go with Network File System (NFS) instead of Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI). Gr

I started work on rebuilding my lab in June 2018, and then life happened. During the 2019 New Year’s holiday break, I finally got back to working on the lab rebuild, but still ran into issues. F

August 2017 Every now and then, people ask me about the lab environment.  This article will give you an update on what is in my lab since the December 2016 article. I believe everyone should have a

I have written several articles about using the Provisioning Services (PVS) XenDesktop Setup Wizard with XenDesktop. Now I wanted to find out if the Wizard would also work with XenApp 7.6. Another ite

As you may recall from my previous article, XenServer and HP Firmware Woes,  I was involved in a rather large XenServer upgrade project. Anyone that has done some XenServer updates/upgrades surely

It’s a virtual world nowadays. But sometimes, even in a virtual world, physical problems can be a real pain. Recently I was involved in upgrading/migrating an outdated XenServer 6.0 setup, runni

Ever since the first article in this series came out in January 2014, I have been asked by numerous people to add an article that includes Boot Device Manager (BDM).  Since I am here but to serve, I

I wrote an article about Adding Machines to a Personal vDisk Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Machine Catalog and received an email asking what is the process to completely undo everything done by the PVS XenDe

This year I have written three articles on using Citrix XenDesktop 7.x, Provisioning Services (PVS) 7.x and the XenDesktop Setup Wizard with Write Cache and Personal vDisk (PvD) Drives.  In those art

The original articles I wrote for XenDesktop 7.1 and PVS 7.1 and XenDesktop 7.5 and PVS 7.1 have proven to be extremely popular. This article will show the same process as the original articles but

The original article I wrote for XenDesktop 7.1 and PVS 7.1 has proven to be extremely popular.  Several people have asked for an article that uses XenDesktop 7.5.  This article will show the same p

Recently I worked on a project where the customer required the use of a Write Cache drive and a Personal vDisk (PvD) drive with XenDesktop 7.1 using Provisioning Services (PVS) 7.1.  Getting informat

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

[Update 26Mar2019. See Updated section 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.

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

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 f

Install Server 2003 R2 In Part 2, you successfully: Installed XenServer, Installed XenCenter, Added your XenServer host to XenCenter, Activated XenServer, and then Performed additional optional confi

Install and Configure XenServer 5.6 In Part 1, you learned how to: Create a MyCitrix.com account, Download a copy of XenServer 5.6, Download an evaluation copy of XenApp 5 Feature Pack 2, Download th

Getting Started and Downloading Software Learning the basics of Citrix XenApp 5 is a fairly easy process.  However, understanding all the installation options, configuration settings, management cons

In this article, you will learn how to upgrade a XenServer 5.5 resource pool with Update 2 for XenServer 5.5.  Update 2 for XenServer 5.5 provides support for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 gue