Results for: XenDesktop 5 PowerShell SDK Primer - Part 2 - Creating Hypervisor Connections and Hosts
XenDesktop 5 PowerShell SDK Primer – Part 4 – Creating Pooled Physical Catalogs
Many of you may have seen my last blog on how to automate the creation of pooled catalogs that leverage Machine Creation Services. In XenDesktop 5 terminology, we automated the "Pooled-Random" catalog type. That type of catalog is very commonly used in POCs/Pilots where you own the hypervisor that you are leveraging and you want to automate the creation of the virtual desktops ...
Collection of XenDesktop 5 Documents, KB Articles, Whitepapers etc.
Hi folks, I don't know how you feel about all the different sources of information around XenDesktop 5. To me it's confusing where all the XenDesktop infos are stored and what are the keywords to find the right content. So I decided to create a collection of links to all the stuff I know of, may it be eDocs, Citrix Kits, HowTos, Whitepapers, KB Articles, Videos, ...
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 ...