2011 – Carl Webster

How To Digitally Sign a Microsoft PowerShell Script with a Third-Party Code Signing Certificate (Update April 4, 2012)

I recently wrote an article on using Microsoft PowerShell to document a Citrix XenApp 6.0 farm. I am also in the process of finishing up follow-up articles for XenApp 5…

Carl Webster September 30, 2011

Active Directory NetScaler PowerShell

Where to Get Copies of the Various Scripts

Many people have asked me where they can get copies of the PowerShell documentation scripts. To make it easier to find, I have linked to all of them in this one article.

Carl Webster September 30, 2011

PowerShell XenApp XenApp 5 for Server 2003

Finding Mismatched Citrix XenApp 5 Servers Using Microsoft PowerShell

Have you ever worked with a customer that had multiple Citrix license servers and product editions? I worked with a client recently that had upgraded their Citrix XenApp product licenses…

Carl Webster September 28, 2011

PVS

Connection timed out (0x4c126035) Connecting to vDisk on Citrix Provisioning Services Server

In Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 SP1, when setting a new device to boot from vDisk using XenServer 5.6 SP2, the following error was received (Figure 1): Could not boot from…

Carl Webster August 15, 2011

XenApp

Learning to Install Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.0

Portable Document Format (PDF) files are a popular way to transfer documents between computer users. A PDF file retains formatting for the file being transferred. There are over 600 free…

Carl Webster August 12, 2011

XenServer

Adding an SSD Storage Device to Citrix XenServer

[Update 26Mar2019. See Updated section below.] Note: This still works for XenServer 8.2 In the process of creating Virtual Machines (VMs) for labs for a customer, I needed to have…

Carl Webster June 18, 2011

XenApp XenApp 5 for Server 2003

Weird Errors and the Mysterious Root Cause

Over the past few months I have come across several seemingly unrelated issues that all had one root cause. There was not any typical correlation between the servers. Citrix software…

Carl Webster February 13, 2011