Results for: PowerShell Scripts for XenDesktop Part 3
Project Avalon – What does this mean to me?
In today's Synergy keynote Mark Templeton announced Project Avalon, a platform to deliver desktops and apps as cloud services. It's almost universal when we talk to customers that the topic of cloud inevitably comes up. What's interesting is to look at what cloud means to different customers and the use cases driving their need to build and/or consume cloud services. As the discussion transitions to how desktops, ...
Automating PVS based Virtual Desktops with Windows Powershell!
I was recently asked to participate in a project, in which, the customer wanted the entire virtual desktop provisioning process to be automated based on pre-populated computer objects in AD. I’m excited to share all I’ve learned with the hopes that it helps to demonstrate the level of automation that can be achieved with Citrix products and powershell.Business DriversProvision hundreds of virtual desktops in minutes ...
Using PowerShell to Create a Catalog of Machine Creations Services Machines
This article walks though the process of using the XenDesktop PowerShell SDK to create a Machine Creation Services based catalog.Although the article is written referring to XenDesktop 5.5, it should work in any version 5.0 or later.Why might you want to do this?There are several reasons why you might want to script a catalog creation;The type of catalog you want to create is not available ...
XenClient – Auto Join VM’s to the ActiveDirectory
Preface If you're serious about adapting new technologies to create a single image architecture, in order to simplify OS deployment and management, you probably are aware Dynamic Image Mode. This is one of the image modes offered by XenClient and allows you to "layer" an image and separate the system, profile / data and applications into easy to manage entities. As a result you got an efficient way to deploy, update ...
Digging into RingCube
Background As you've probably heard by now, we've acquired RingCube Technologies. I'm really excited about this acquisition because I spend a lot of time in the field working with some of our largest customers...and doing VDI the "right way" in the enterprise space has been difficult at best up to this point. I'll openly admit that. There's a reason that many of our large, production XD ...
Believe it or Not … This is a XenApp Desktop!
Today marks the day the traditional, boring, XenApp published desktop dies!"Huh? Is that possible?" you may gasp. Indeed it is!With the first release of the XenApp 6 Service Provider Automation Pack, we've made it easy for service providers (and XenApp admins alike) to deploy a rich published desktop experience on XenApp 6 for their end users and customers. Don't believe me? I'll give you a ...
XenDesktop 5 PowerShell SDK Primer – Part 3 – Creating Pooled Catalogs that Leverage Machine Creation Services
Machine Creation Services (MCS) is a new feature in XenDesktop 5 that is used to simplify XenDesktop deployments in POCs and Pilots in hypervisor-based environments. It generates virtual desktop VMs on the fly based on a "master" virtual machine image. It also manages the Active Directory accounts for these machines using an Identity Pool and performs other tasks within XenDesktop as well. ...
XenDesktop 5 PowerShell SDK Primer – Part 2 – Creating Hypervisor Connections and Hosts
One of the new changes that you will see in XenDesktop 5 is the configuration of hypervisor connections and hosts. In order to create the "pooled", "dedicated", or "existing" catalog types in XenDesktop 5, XenDesktop needs to know details of the hypervisor that will be hosting the virtual desktops. Hypervisor connection details are also required in order to manage virtual desktops from within ...
XenDesktop 5 PowerShell SDK Primer – Part 1 – Getting Started
Many of you may have seen my blog series last year on the XenDesktop 4 PowerShell SDK. Ever since XenDesktop 5 was released, I've been itching to take a peak at the new release, and in particular, the new SDK. I've had several recent projects where I had to create scripts with the XenDesktop 5 SDK. The majority of these projects involved ...
Repurposed PCs deliver Windows 7-like experience using XenApp Hosted Shared Desktops
Users today are demanding a more personalized and elegant computing environment. The expectations of IT look-and-feel in the workplace are increasing as enterprise users begin to crave the same experience delivered by consumer products. In this entry I refer to "Windows 7 experience" and "Windows 7-like desktops" to describe the general look and feel of the modern Windows desktop. All desktops shown ...