Archive for the ‘appdeploy’ Category

Save Time – Download prescripted Core Applications

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Ever time I need to set up a new Citrix environment I have a set of Core Applications and helper tools that I always install. These are MSI and EXE based applications leveraging the ScriptFrameWork. I have written numerous blog posts about how to install these different applications unattended. While working ...

Unattended : .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Redistributable

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

I will in this blog show you how to install all the .NET Frameworks packages with one script and no need for Internet access later. The .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 also includes .NET 2.0 SP2 & .NET 3.0 SP2. This script only installs the English language pack. Download the .NET Framework ...

Unattended : Citrix Health Monitoring & Recovery (HMR) Test Pack

Monday, May 25th, 2009

The latest versions of XenApp also come with a Health Monitoring and Recovery (HMR) agent – Citrix recommends leveraging the default health check tests and the additional HMR tests that can be downloaded for free on Citrix‟s website here. The recommended settings is taken from a presentation held at Synergy 2009 ...

Unattended : Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 – Font Packs

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Download the required Font Packs from Adobe. More info about the Adobe Reader 9.1 and the ScriptFrameWork here. Example script : @echo off REM Install Adobe Reader 9 Font Packs - Extended Languages REM ScriptFrameWork by Joe Shonk - www.theshonkproject.com REM Customized by Trond Eirik Haavarstein - www.xenappblog.com pushd %~dp0 cd .. set AppSourcePath=Source set AppConfigPath=Configuration set AppInstallPath=Scripts set AppHotfixesPath=Hotfixes set LogFile="%temp%\Adobe ...

Unattended : Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Adobe recently released the Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1 which fixes critical vulnerability that would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Hopefully it also fixes the problems people are experiencing with Roaming of Application Data on Terminal Servers. I ...

Unattended : Adobe Flash Player

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Adobe Flash Player, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information and potentially gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions, disclose potentially sensitive information, and compromise a user's system. Read more at Secunia.com First of all ...

Unattend : Foxit Reader for Terminal Server

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 has become very big, slow, memory consuming and a lot of users are experiencing problems with Roaming Profiles and AppData in the Terminal Server Environment. So I decided to make a script for installing the Foxit Reader. First of all you have to download Foxit Reader 3.0 ...

Unattended : CutePDF Writer for Terminal Server

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Going through the StatPress logs I discovered that a lot you are having problems with Acrobat Reader 9 on Terminal Server and are really fed up with Adobe Support. So I decided to make a script for installing the free CutePDF Writer and FoxIt Reader. First of all you have to ...

Unattended : Adobe Acrobat Reader 9

Friday, July 4th, 2008

The new version of Adobe Reader is out and it's supposed to be faster and better. Though the integrated Shockwave & FlashPlayer will be interesting in a Terminal Server Environment. I've created a script for silent installation : @ECHO OFF REM Install Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0 REM Written by Trond Eirik Haavarstein pushd %~dp0 cd .. set ...