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. Fast forward to now, it is best practice to configure the firmware as EFI. In essence, UEFI is the preferred choice for modern computers because…
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 on VMs from Citrix Studio. One of the bigger “Gotchas” I see is when the power state changes to ‘unknown’. This can be due to…
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. In Part 1 we talked about the staging grounds for getting started and kicking everything off. Now that we have the main variables and access…
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. For me this was pretty challenging to start. Seemed I had to visit 20 different sites to find examples of code that isn’t documented well…
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 easy ways to automate this process. So why create another blog? The majority of examples I found out there were pretty simple, in the fact…
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 the Powershell code I used to gather details. Citrix says “The functional level controls which product features are available to machines in the catalog. Setting…
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 a number of sessions, it was to notify you that based upon your license/bandwidth edition, there are CPU/Memory restraints. So even if you give the…
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 MDT + Powershell + Tools: The Beginning. – https://verticalagetechnologies.com/index.php/2020/03/04/citrix-microsoft-mdt-powershell-tools-the-beginning Part 2: Building multiple Citrix Images with one Microsoft MDT task sequence – https://verticalagetechnologies.com/index.php/2020/03/16/building-multiple-citrix-images-with-one-microsoft-mdt-task-sequence Part 3:…
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 find them here: Post 1: https://verticalagetechnologies.com/index.php/2020/03/04/citrix-microsoft-mdt-powershell-tools-the-beginning Post 2: https://verticalagetechnologies.com/index.php/2020/03/16/building-multiple-citrix-images-with-one-microsoft-mdt-task-sequence Today we will be focusing on automating the procedures for always having an updated Windows OS…
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 for a couple different line of businesses, another Image for these 3 Developers, an Administrator image, and maybe a few more images for other miscellaneous…