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XenServer: Creating an ISO Partition on DOM0
I recently updated my lab machine to XenServer 6.0 and I wanted to create a local ISO repository on the DOM0 partition.
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Article: CTX131172 – Hotfix ES540ServerWX64001 (Version 5.4.6.3) – For Citrix...
Hotfix ES540ServerWX86001 (Version 5.4.6.3) - For Citrix EdgeSight 5.4 Server
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PowerShell: XenServer 6.0 CmdLet Poster
The fine folks at X-Tech have put together an exhaustive (and large) poster showing all the existing and new cmdlets for managing XenServer through PowerShell.
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Article: SSL 38 Error when Launching Applications via Citrix NetScaler
SSL 38 Error when Launching Applications via Citrix NetScaler
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Article: Enabling or Disabling HDX Plug-n-Play for USB Storage Devices
Intro Sometimes your security team will be your best friend. They will be the “bad guy” in your IT organization and prevent certain applications from being installed or they will require that remote...
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Wag the Real: 2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 24,000...
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EdgeSight: What’s the Point?
Intro In my experience, EdgeSight is not typically deployed in XenApp environments. The reasons for this are many including, it seems redundant and overlaps with an already installed solution, it’s...
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PowerShell: E-mail Server Load and Assigned LE
Citrix has utilized load balancing in XenApp for years. This feature allows you to set parameters in a load evaluator, apply it to a server, and have Citrix manage how users are assigned to servers....
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Are You There EdgeSight? It’s me Worker
Intro If you rely on EdgeSight to provide accurate and timely information about your farm you have to assume that all your EdgeSight Worker Agents are functioning as expected. Or do you? In this...
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EdgeSight: Timezone offsets
Intro If you have implemented any of the ad hoc SQL queries available on this site, you may have noticed that most time queries are offset by –4 or –5 hours. This is because the EdgeSight database uses...
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Article: How to Truncate EdgeSight’s Alert and Alert_Param Table
[NOTE: I had to recently follow similar steps to reduce the size of my EdgeSight database to save disk space] Document ID: CTX137750 / Created On: Jul 8, 2013 / Updated On: Jul 8, 2013 Summary...
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Time to dust off this blog and start posting again
You’re still here? I’m humbled that this blog continues to get decent traffic even after over a year of inactivity. I’ve recently changed employment and should have the time to write posts again. So,...
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Game of Clouds – House Stark: Automating User Creation
My new project needs to grow to include many more users, but there is no automation present. So I’ve begun examining the biggest “pain” points in this environment to scale it out. In this post, we will...
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Game of Clouds – House Stark: Installed Software Versions
Epilogue For years the stalwart House Stark (your in-house IT department) has done all that the realm has asked. They have standardized deployments, consolidated equipment and software vendors,...
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Runbooks or How to Make Documentation As Painful As Possible
Everyone loves...loves documentation. I'll let you in on a secret, Runbooks make normal documentation a walk in the park. In this post, we'll look at some ideas and resources to create a runbook for...
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Updated Blogroll
Just a quick note to let you know that I updated the blogroll. That is all. Thanks, AlainFiled under: Other Blogs Tagged: Wordpress
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The Cloud is Blind: Tricerat Simplify Monitoring
Tricerat Simplify Monitoring claims to have the magic bullet to fully examine and report on your Citrix environment. In this post I take their 30-day free trial out for a spin.
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Powershell: The Ultimate User Deletion Script?
Intro I’ve spent the better part of 4 days working on a monster script. I needed this script to perform the following actions: Take a list of usernames and ensure they exist in Active Directory (AD)....
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PowerShell: Display Maintenance Message for a XenApp Published Application
How do you do application maintenance and properly inform your users? This blog post will detail a PowerShell script that allows just this.
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Storefront Customization: Logoff behavior
How do you control the log off behavior in Storefront?
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