Citrix Imagingwizard.exe and Packer
Lately I’ve been using Hashicorp Packer to automate my golden master #Citrix images. A few years back, I was mostly using the normal BIOS setting for the virtual machine configuration.…
Citrix: Power State “Unknown”. Gotcha!
If you manage a Citrix environment chances are you’re using hosting connections to manage power actions. Whether it’s for MCS/PVS, reboot schedules, or to simply perform a reboot or shutdown…
Azure, Packer, PowerShell: Creating Citrix Golden Images – Part #2
Part 1 – https://verticalagetechnologies.com/index.php/2023/06/14/azure-packer-powershell-creating-citrix-golden-images-part-1 Part 2 – This post. Part 3 – https://verticalagetechnologies.com/index.php/2023/06/28/azure-packer-powershell-creating-citrix-golden-images-part-3 Welcome back to the second blog post on creating golden Citrix images with Packer, PowerShell, and Azure.…
Azure, Packer, PowerShell: Creating Citrix Golden Images – Part #3
Part 1 – https://verticalagetechnologies.com/index.php/2023/06/14/azure-packer-powershell-creating-citrix-golden-images-part-1 Part 2 – https://verticalagetechnologies.com/index.php/2023/06/28/azure-packer-powershell-creating-citrix-golden-images-part-2 (json/HCL) Part 3 – This post Hopefully by now you have a decent idea on how to structure your azure packer deployment.…
Azure, Packer, PowerShell: Creating Citrix Golden Images – Part #1
Yes, another boring post around creating Golden Images in Azure via Hashicorp Packer and PowerShell. There are quite a few blog posts, GitHub repos, and examples of the quick and…
Fun with Citrix Functional Levels
I recently had to figure out which Functional Level goes to which Citrix version/release. I figured I would provide the full list as of Citrix 2209 along with some of…
Citrix ADC (Netscaler) – Don’t Get ‘Duped’ by default Cloud settings.
Not too long ago I saw a post on twitter referencing Citrix ADC (Netscaler) sizing recommendations based upon the License edition. This wasn’t meant to ‘size’ the ADC to support…
Microsoft MDT: The Meat and Potatoes
So far we’ve been able to show you how to configure your MDT task sequences, customsettings.ini, and automatically update your Operating System media via OSDBuilder. Part 1: Citrix + Microsoft…
Automate updating OS ISOs with OSDBuilder and MDT
Now that we’ve started down this “MDT” train, there’s no getting off until we discuss some of the more important parts. If you haven’t read the previous posts you can…
Building multiple Citrix Images with one Microsoft MDT task sequence
Continuing on the discussion of Automating the Citrix Image build process with MDT. One small problem is that there’s never just one image to do. You probably have an Image…