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…
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…
A Citrix Active/Active Deployment – Part 4
The last couple weeks have been a hoot. Here’s the progress that’s been made. XenServer hosts have all been setup (running 7.1) Storage (FC) and NAS have been setup All…
A Citrix Active/Active Deployment Part 3
I’m at the point now where the Datacenter#2 has Networking, Storage, and Hosts ready for me to use. That means it’s VM building time. You pretty much need the identical…
A Citrix Active/Active Deployment Part 2
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…
A Citrix Active/Active Deployment Introduction
Ok, where does one begin when talking about an Active/Active Citrix Deployment? I’m frazzled just thinking about it. Do I start with the Profiles, Netscalers, PVS Images, XenApp Sites…? Let’s…
Citrix – Smart Access – Conditional Clipboard Access
SmartAccess and SmartControl let you change ICA connection behavior (e.g. disable client device mappings) based on how users connect. Decisions are based on NetScaler Gateway Virtual Server name, Session Policy…
Citrix Xenapp/Xendesktop 7.9 Database Migration – SQL Express to Mirror
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…