Archive for the ‘xenapp’ Category
Monday, September 21st, 2009
Many of the Best Practices modification are included in Provisioning Services Optimization Tool. One of these settings are disabling the Automatic Updates Service. To run Windows Update on your vDisk you will need to set the service startup to Automatically, start the service and run Windows Update. One of my ...
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Monday, September 21st, 2009
The Citrix XenApp 5.0 Feature Pack will be released 29th of September. One of the prerequisite are Sun Java 1.6.0.16. I have created a script for unattended installation.
@echo off
REM Install Java 1.6.0.16
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 ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
I have to admit that networking is not my strongest side, I relay on the network folks for FW rules, NAT and so on. The reason why I have installed and configured the Vyatta Virtual Router is that I need to have more control and make my own configurations.
My XenServer ...
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
This post will try to list some of the Best Practices I'm using when preparing a Provisioning Services Private vDisk for Shared vDisk usage. First of all I always use XenApp Cloning Tool from CitrixTools.net. This tool are not supported by Citrix, but it's much more powerful and will save ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Way back we converted old computers to Thin Client PCs using ICA DOS. We created this funny Jackass style video for promotion and I thought it would be fun sharing it.
For the new school way of converting take a look at this post : Turn old PC into Thin Client ...
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
This blog post will tell you how to turn an old PC into a unmanaged thin client, either you want to use VDI with VMware View / Citrix XenDesktop or e.g. login through Citrix Web Interface. Actually Thin Desktop® 2.3.2 was released in June, but they charge $26 pr device. ...
Posted in web interface, windows, xenapp, xendesktop | 21 Comments »
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 ...
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
I tried to capture a video with today in my lab, but the GoView didn't work through Proxy. As you now Twitter is a powerful tools, and I quickly got 4 responses on Screen Capture software, thanks to timarenz, nboevink, michael_keen & virtualprouk. I tried the uTIPu but this program ...
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
I saw a demo of this at Synergy 2009 but haven't had time to play with it before today. The HDX MediaStream for Flash can be downloaded here. The nice thing with the new Tech Previews coming from Citrix these days are that they are very easy to test in ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
The Citrix Dazzle Technical Preview has been released and you can download it here. It's required to install the Citrix Receiver before the Dazzle Tech Preview. This version support Windows XP & Vista on x32, but it also works on Windows 7 with some minor bugs. Note that this version ...
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