How to Become a Citrix Jedi

Presenting at the last MyCUGC event was truly an honor. See my full blog on “How to Become a Citrix Jedi” located on the MyCUGC website – https://www.mycugc.org/blogs/cugc-blogs/2018/03/12/how-to-be-a-citrix-jedi
Presenting at the last MyCUGC event was truly an honor. See my full blog on “How to Become a Citrix Jedi” located on the MyCUGC website – https://www.mycugc.org/blogs/cugc-blogs/2018/03/12/how-to-be-a-citrix-jedi
I’ve had the pleasure of using Citrix App Layering for the past few weeks. I have to say it’s pretty addicting. Immediately after using the product I could see it’s potential. What started out as a POC/Demo turned into a layering frenzy. First the OS layer, the Platform layer, then an App Layer. Now we…
Since Part 1 has been published we have learned a little bit more about the overall design of the environment. Let’s recap the initial requirements. Management has instructed the team to build a Highly Available and Stable environment that spans multiple data centers. Each technology component must be separate in each datacenter. Which means, no sharing…
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…
Building Golden Images, Master Images, References Images (whatever you want to call them) is a necessity in today’s world. All too often I see Citrix customers using persistent VMs built manually. Sometimes 20-50 of the same VMs, going through the same manual clicks for upgrades, the same manual motions for software pushes, windows updates, etc……
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For brand new Xenapp/Xendesktop implementations you are given the option to build out the Site quickly using SQL Express. While SQL Express may be supported, it’s certainly not recommended. Any Citrix XA/XD production site/farm should be installed into a full version of SQL. Many Citrix projects start out as ‘Proof of Concept’ or Trial phase,…