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 Recently I was involved in upgrading/migrating an outdated XenServer 6.0 setup, running on HP BL460c Gen7 and Gen8. The Gen8 boxes went fine, and the customer was really impressed with the performance of XenServer 6.5 SP […]

A few days ago, Carl wrote a very interesting article on “strange” IE behavior here: https://www.carlwebster.com/internet-explorer-10-and-11-open-to-blank-white-screen-or-become-unresponsive/ This made me remember an issue I had dealt with earlier, very similar to the one Carl was facing. Mine presented itself on XenApp […]

For a recent XenApp 7.6 project, the IT Manager wanted no one to access various folders shown in the Navigation pane in Explorer, Save, or SaveAs dialogs. This article shows how I solved this request. Note: This article was updated on 28-Feb-2017 with information some people had requested from Alain Assaf. Alain’s updates are […]

On a recent XenApp 7.6 project, the IT Manager was insistent that the Network location be removed from the Navigation pane. The manager wanted no one to see the Network location from Explorer, Save, or SaveAs dialogs from any of the published resources on any of the XenApp 7.6 servers. This is how I accomplished this for the manager. […]

Yet another plus for being a consultant is running into issues never seen before, searching for a solution, seeing tens of thousands of hits with no solution in sight, and coming up with a solution. I have done many XenApp 7.x and XenDesktop 7.x deployments where Internet Exploder, I mean Explorer, 10, and 11, were used, and I have n […]

One of the nice things about being a consultant is that on every project, you run into something you had never seen before or asked to do something no one else has asked you to do before. As a consultant, I am always learning new things or a new way of doing something I have been doing for years. Recently I was asked to help finish u […]

The following scripts have been updated to add support for Word 2016 in all 11 supported languages. Active Directory DHCP Provisioning Services StoreFront (Client script update 7-Oct-2015) VMware vSphere XenApp 6 XenApp 6.5 XenApp/XenDesktop 7.x XenDesktop 5 In addition to these scripts, all the scripts currently in development hav […]

Picadm.sys you say? A few years back I already wrote about picadm.sys issues: https://www.carlwebster.com/the-curious-case-of-the-slow-file-transfer/ Citrix has been updating picadm.sys numerous times since then, and also did in the latest release: HRP06. And before that in XA650R05W2K8R2X64015 too. However, it seems that XA650R05 […]

OK, I heard from enough of you that wanted me to do this in PowerShell instead of my batch file. Here is the original article using built-in Windows utilities.  This article will show the original batch file converted to PowerShell. I created four variables.  One for the domain name, one for the top-level domain identifier, one to […]

With all the writing I do for my website and customers, I frequently recreate my Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory (AD) environment.  I thought I would show you how I use PowerShell to install and configure my Domain Controller. First things first, install Windows Server 2012 R2 and configure the server as you require.  i.e., […]

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 domain controller, remove all the Active Directory related Roles and Features and just start over.  This article will show how I use […]

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 recreate my entire AD structure. This may come as a shock to some of you but I do not use PowerShell for this task.  Instead, I use buil […]

I am writing some “How To” articles for a customer. I am trying to figure out exactly what happens when XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 are installed.  There are two options for the installation: Figure 1 From my testing, I see no difference in what gets installed regardless of which option is selected. I was supplied with current l […]

A feature that has been requested in all the XenApp documentation scripts for a good while is the ability to print a specific section of the report. This feature, a couple of bug fixes and several enhancements to speed up script execution are what make up Version 4.2. Note: This is the last version of this script. Other than bug fix […]

Currently there are ten documentation scripts that I maintain. There are more that need to be created. I love creating and working on these scripts to make all our lives easier when it comes to documenting the current state of various Citrix and Microsoft products. But there comes a time when there is just too much for one person […]

Greetings, New updates to all my documentation scripts will soon be released.  There are some things you need to know first. This is the last update for the XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2003 script. All other scripts now require PowerShell version 3 or later. All other scripts will no longer support Word 2007. The following script […]

For my Active Directory (AD) documentation script, I needed to enumerate all Trusts for a Domain. I found a script on TechNet but it had issues. I fixed the issues but I cannot post it as a solution on TechNet because my script is longer than 2000 characters. I found the original script here. My issues with the original script are: […]

For my Active Directory documentation script, if the user requests hardware inventory for the domain controllers, the user must run the script with domain administrator credentials.  How do you determine if a script is being run with Domain Admin rights? The following information is taken from: Check for Admin Credentials in a Powe […]

In a previous article, I changed my lab’s PVS Farm to use SQL database mirroring.  Since that has been done it is time to change my XenDesktop 7.1 Site to also use SQL database mirroring.  I will document the process I found that worked.  It is not all like what is described in CTX127538 How to Reconfigure a XenDesktop S […]

I received an email from a reader asking me if I had ever changed a production Provisioning Services (PVS) database from a single database to use mirroring. I had not, so I thought this was a good time to try it out and document the process. My lab runs two PVS 7.1 servers on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and three Microsoft SQL […]