Archive for the ‘provisioning services’ Category

Provisioning Services Personality.ini for XenApp & XenDesktop

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Have you ever wonder what the function of Personality.ini file located in the System Drive of your vDisk? According to the Citrix Provisioning Services Guide 5.1 the Target Device Personality feature allows you to define data for specific target devices and make it available to the target device at boot ...

Citrix XenApp Power and Capacity Management Technology Preview

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Citrix just released the Technology Preview of the XenApp Power and Capacity Management. The XenApp PCM management feature can help administrators reduce power consumption and better manage XenApp server capacity by dynamically scaling up or scaling down the number of online XenApp servers. Consolidating sessions onto fewer online servers improves ...

Citrix TV Beta

Monday, May 4th, 2009

You can follow the Synergy 2009 at Citrix TV Beta.

Cloning XenApp with WDS & MDT

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Start setting up your Windows Deployment Server and Windows Deployment Toolkit on a Windows 2003 R2 or Windows 2008. I would prefer Windows 2008 since it has support for multicast. When you can successfully boot via WDS with the LightTouch WIM you are ready for the next step. Tips : If ...

Clean up your desktop

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Discovered a very cool application today which organize your icons on your desktop or hiding them all simple by double clicking your desktop. Very handy when you are doing a presentation @ your customers! Works great with Windows 7, download here.

XenAppPrep Tool available

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

XenApp Developer Network released the XenAppPrep Tool at Summit 2008 in the end of October. In the past, the ability to clone or stream a Citrix XenApp server required extensive customization and scripting. The XenAppPrep tool can be used to generalize a XenApp installation and make this process extremely simple ...

Clone a Windows 2008 Server with XenApp 5.0

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Follow the procedures from my previous blog, Clone a Windows 2003 Server with Citrix Presentation Server 4.X Windows Server 2008 has Sysprep built right into the OS, found at c:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\Sysprep.exe. You can run Sysprep either from command line or from the GUI. From command line : sysprep /OOBE /Generalize /shutdown From GUI (Remember ...

Clone a Windows 2003 Server with Citrix Presentation Server 4.X

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Remember the good old days when we used to ghost every Terminal Server and then doing numerous of manally steps to get it up and running ? Recently I had a customer with over 50 apps that needed to be up an running in notime so I decided to try ...