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XenApp, XenDesktop and PowerShell Webinar Questions
Thank you to all attendees for joining the PowerShell TechTalk webinar! I hope that you were able to learn some things from it that will make your life easier. This blog post will wrap up some of the questions that were asked during the presentation. First off, there were requests for the scripts demoed in the session - the link to these is provided below. Don't ...
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XenApp & XenDesktop Management with PowerShell (Webinar)
If you've administered a XenApp or XenDesktop, you've had to go through the applications or desktops at some point and make manual modifications or check settings. However, you may never need to do that again - if you learn how to use PowerShell. XenApp and XenDesktop now both support PowerShell, which replaces the aging MFCOM scripting that previously allowed control of Citrix farms. This allows you ...
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XenApp PowerShell SDK QA
Thank you to all those that attended the Essentials for using Windows PowerShell with XenApp and XenDesktop Tech Talk on August 24th, 2010 - we had a fantastic turnout! For those of you that missed it, both the recording and presentation have been posted. Tech Talk Full Recorded Presentation Tech Talk Presentation Slides This FAQ focuses answering questions on the XenApp Section of the presentation, and has answers ...
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Checking Server Availability – XenApp 6 PowerShell SDK
So far this week, we've taken a look at creating an inventory of a XenApp 6 farm and explored sending email reports of what we've gathered. We also took a look at checking out application consistency and publishing settings, one of the most common issues we find at customer sites. Now we're going to jump into basic networking and logging with PowerShell, and how you ...
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Check Your Applications – XenApp 6 PowerShell SDK Script
In our first post, we started off with a nice and easy farm inventory script and had it send us an email report. Today, we'll take a look at one of the most common issues we find when looking at customers' environments: application inconsistency and forgotten applications. Tomorrow, we'll start getting into some more advanced coding and look at ensuring server uptime using a scheduled ...
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Getting a Farm Inventory With XenApp 6 PowerShell Scripting
About the Author: Michael Bogobowicz is a Principal Consultant with the World-Wide Consulting Solutions team, and has been engaged on Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop projects around the world since 2006. XenApp 6 introduces some new and versatile PowerShell scripting - for those of you used to MFCOM scripting, you'll find this to be a very welcome improvement. In this post, we'll set up the XenApp 6 ...
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How to EdgeSight While You XenDesktop
Got XenDesktop? Want to know exactly what's going on in your environment? Check out EdgeSight. It's great. And you can use it in your XenDesktop environment too. However, there are a couple of architecture decisions that you need to think about before you deploy EdgeSight into your XD environment - if you're already familiar with EdgeSight, skip the warmup and go straight to ...
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How to Automatically Update Provisioning Services vDisks
Provisioning Services (PVS) solves many of the existing problems of datacenter and desktop administrators by reducing the number of unique images that need to be managed. Rather than dealing with application installs, conflicts, patches and errors on hundreds of different servers and/or desktops, they can deal with a single streamed golden image that remains pristine regardless of the changes made by users. However, even though this ...