Documenting a Citrix XenApp 6 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell and Word – Version 3
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Documenting a Citrix XenApp 6 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell and Word – Version 3

The script to document a Citrix XenApp 6 farm has proven to be very popular.  I had not always wanted to take the time to create a version of the script that would output to a Microsoft Word document because this script had not been downloaded very much.  But in the last few months, the script has been downloaded several thousands of times.  So I finally decided it was time to create a version of this script that creates a Word document.  Ryan Revord had taken the XenApp 6.0 version of the script and changed it to create a basic Microsoft Word document.  Ryan saved me a lot of work but I wanted improve on the document created by adding a cover page, Table of Contents and footer.  This article will explain the changes to the script to create a Word document.

Documenting a Citrix Provisioning Services Farm with Microsoft PowerShell and Word – Version 2
Posted inPowerShell PVS

Documenting a Citrix Provisioning Services Farm with Microsoft PowerShell and Word – Version 2

The script to document a Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) farm has proven to be very popular.  I have always wanted to take the time to create a version of the script that would output to a Microsoft Word document.  Ryan Revord had taken the XenApp 6.0 script and changed it to create a basic Microsoft Word document.  Ryan saved me a lot of work but I wanted improve on the document created by adding a cover page, Table of Contents and footer.  This article will explain the changes to the script to create a Word document.

Posted inXenApp 6.5

The Curious Case of the Slow File Transfer

Let’s get started with a bit of storytelling…

It all started back in at the end of Q3 2011, I was setting up a new Citrix XenApp 6.5 farm for a migration project at the company I was outsourced at. Back then XenApp 6.5 had been released just a few months earlier.

Everything was looking fine and the migration was going smoothly. A few weeks after the last user was migrated we began seeing some strange behavior. Most of that was solved by implementing new Citrix Access Gateway (CAG)  VPX’s, but one issue remained: accessing client drive mappings was extremely slow. To make matters worse, the application being used needed to transfer PDF’s (not even large ones, mostly around 200KB) from client drives to the server. Although the copy eventually would always complete, performance was far less than what is considered acceptable. At the beginning of the weirdness, we did see some rare picadm.sys messages in the event log, but they went away later on.