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…
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…
Logon Simulators should be part of every production and test deployment. They take away the anxiety from worrying about session launch failures, access problems, and back-end issues. In this video presentation I’ll go over a handful of different vendor options that exist today. We will also drill down into the details of the pros/cons as…