April 17, 2011

Faulting application name: svchost.exe, Faulting module name: scardhook64.dll

We were seeing these errors on a XenApp 6 farm: Faulting application name: svchost.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bc3c1 Faulting module name: scardhook64.dll, version: 6.0.0.10226, time […]
April 17, 2011

Easily find installed hotfixes with PowerShell

I {heart} PowerShell. Need to find out if a particular hotfix is installed? Just run this command, substituting the KBxxxxx number for the hotfix you want […]
October 29, 2010

Windows 2008 R2 scripting: lessons learnt

My scripting plans were foiled twice this week on Windows 2008 R2. I have implemented a VBScript XenApp reboot script for several years now on several […]
October 29, 2010

XenServer Snapshot based Backup

If you are looking to do snapshot based VM backups in a XenServer environment then check out this collection of scripts:VBScript methodPerl script methodAndy Burton’s XenServer […]
September 29, 2010

Disabling/hiding Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 libraries

I was looking for this info a few weeks ago while locking down a XenApp 6 published desktop, but couldn’t find it then. To hide a […]
August 30, 2010

XenApp 6 command line configuration

My previous blog entry covered installing XenApp 6 from the command line. Installing XenApp 6 from the command line does not join your server to the […]
August 23, 2010

XenApp 6 command line installation

I’m just starting my first XenApp 6 install and I like what I see so far. This is the first major change to XenApp in several […]
August 23, 2010

XenServer VM poor network performance

In a recent project we were seeing very slow printing on the new Windows 2003 print server VMs created on XenServer. Some print jobs were taking […]
March 8, 2010

How to disable the “Print Dialog” window with XenApp plugin for Mac

I have a client using some Apple Macs to connect to a Citrix XenApp farm. All was working except an annoying “print dialog” pop-up window whenever […]
September 17, 2009

CPU and memory load generation scripts

I was asked today how to generate CPU and memory load on a Windows server. I remembered from my VMware ESX training a VBScript which generated […]
September 17, 2009

The password store on Windows 2008 / Vista

I always recommend a profile management system for Citrix XenApp installations; the free Flex Profile Kit is a favourite, but I recently implemented AppSense Environment Manager […]
July 31, 2009

Run cmd as SYSTEM on Windows 2008 Server

Thanks to Jarvis for this one, to run a cmd window as the SYSTEM account on Windows 2008 Server, download PSExec from Microsoft and use this […]
July 30, 2009

Full hard drive on Windows 2008 Server

Today a production XenApp 5 Windows 2008 Enterprise Server ran out of disk space. I only added it to the farm yesterday at which time it […]
May 17, 2009

Client hypervisors, are they the missing VDI link?

Citrix recently announced XenClient, their client side bare metal hypervisor. VMware announced their client hypervisor back in February and I would not be surprised if Microsoft […]
April 28, 2009

Citrix Stats using PowerShell and SQL

Wow, I like what Alain has done with some PowerShell/SQL/Visual Studio tricks. I can see how this could be turned into a farm trending/capacity management tool. […]
April 23, 2009

The cost of live migration: Did VMware miss an opportunity with vSphere?

VMware recently announced vSphere 4, the replacement for ESX 3.5. When I read that new editions had been released for small business I thought VMware would […]
April 23, 2009

The cost of Live Migration: Did VMware miss an opportunity?

VMware recently announced vSphere 4, the replacement for ESX 3.5. When I read that new editions had been released for small business I thought VMware would […]
April 20, 2009

Automated XenServer host & VM shutdown

A client is currently implementing Citrix XenServer 5.0 and had hit a snag trying to get the new XenServer hosts communicating with their APC UPS. They […]
April 19, 2009

XenApp server cloning utilities

Here’s a useful looking utility from Citrix which saves the manual steps involved in preparing a XenApp server for cloning.Download here. I also just found a […]
April 15, 2009

Publishing Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro & LiveCycle Designer

When publishing Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro or Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8 using Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 the application does not display. The session is established and […]
March 20, 2009

CitrixTools.Net

I stumbled upon CitrixTools.Net from a Citrix forum post and was surprised to find several tools they have developed which are very similar to some I […]
March 10, 2009

Cloud, grid and utility computing defined

http://www.katescomment.com/the-definition-of-cloud-computing/ A great definition, although coming from the MD of a utility computing company the statement “Arguably there is only really one cloud, which is the […]

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September 17, 2009

The password store on Windows 2008 / Vista

I always recommend a profile management system for Citrix XenApp installations; the free Flex Profile Kit is a favourite, but I recently implemented AppSense Environment Manager […]
September 17, 2009

CPU and memory load generation scripts

I was asked today how to generate CPU and memory load on a Windows server. I remembered from my VMware ESX training a VBScript which generated […]
March 8, 2010

How to disable the “Print Dialog” window with XenApp plugin for Mac

I have a client using some Apple Macs to connect to a Citrix XenApp farm. All was working except an annoying “print dialog” pop-up window whenever […]
August 23, 2010

XenServer VM poor network performance

In a recent project we were seeing very slow printing on the new Windows 2003 print server VMs created on XenServer. Some print jobs were taking […]
August 23, 2010

XenApp 6 command line installation

I’m just starting my first XenApp 6 install and I like what I see so far. This is the first major change to XenApp in several […]
August 30, 2010

XenApp 6 command line configuration

My previous blog entry covered installing XenApp 6 from the command line. Installing XenApp 6 from the command line does not join your server to the […]
September 29, 2010

Disabling/hiding Windows 7 or Windows 2008 R2 libraries

I was looking for this info a few weeks ago while locking down a XenApp 6 published desktop, but couldn’t find it then. To hide a […]
October 29, 2010

XenServer Snapshot based Backup

If you are looking to do snapshot based VM backups in a XenServer environment then check out this collection of scripts:VBScript methodPerl script methodAndy Burton’s XenServer […]
October 29, 2010

Windows 2008 R2 scripting: lessons learnt

My scripting plans were foiled twice this week on Windows 2008 R2. I have implemented a VBScript XenApp reboot script for several years now on several […]