June 2013 – Carl Webster

Provisioning Services 7 and Server 2012 Group Managed Service Account

Citrix released Provisioning Services version 7 (PVS7) with support for running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012. Server 2012 has a really nice new feature called Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA). Even though Citrix had to test installing PVS7 on Server 2012, I found that Citrix never tested using gMSA for the Stream or SOAP services. This article is my attempt to see if PVS7 will allow a gMSA for the Stream and SOAP services.

Carl Webster June 29, 2013

PowerShell PVS

Error in the Provisioning Services 7.0 PowerShell Programmer Guide for Windows 8 and Server 2012

In updating the PVS documentation script to add support for PVS7, I ran into an issue with getting the McliPSSnapin.dll registered. This brief article explains how to resolve this issue.

Carl Webster June 29, 2013

Receiver XenApp 6.5

Curious Case FP2

At Synergy 2013, Citrix announced XenApp 6.5 FP2, among other things. I have been looking at this announcement with a kind of special interest, my first curious case, which you…

Bart Jacobs June 6, 2013

Active Directory Blog Presentations

E2E 2013 Copenhagen AD Presentation (More things about AD you should know)

Greetings, If you came to my presentation at E2E 2013 in Copenhagen, thanks for being there. I would like to thank the following people for their help in putting together…

Carl Webster June 2, 2013