Posted inCitrix Virtual Apps and Desktops XenApp 6.0 XenApp 6.5

Group Policy Settings Reference for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop

Five weeks ago, on the same day, I received three emails asking if I had a spreadsheet listing all the Citrix policy settings like Microsoft supplies. I replied I did not and had been asking Citrix for such an Excel file since March 2012. Someone pointed me to this Citrix article on Citrix Policy Reference but it has not been updated in three years. It also contains no data for any version of XenApp or XenDesktop 7.x. I reached out to several people at Citrix to see if such a file existed and all promised to get back to me. No one ever responded. So I started my own Excel file based on what little I had from the documentation scripts. There was so much missing information that I reached back out to my Citrix contacts because surely this information is sitting on some developer’s computer somewhere at Citrix. After pestering my Citrix contacts, I, again, never received a single response. I decided to take matters into my own hands and start a community project.

Citrix XenDesktop Personal vDisk Stats using Microsoft Excel and PowerShell V2.1
Posted inBlog PowerShell XenDesktop 5.x

Citrix XenDesktop Personal vDisk Stats using Microsoft Excel and PowerShell V2.1

Yeah, I know.  I just updated the script a couple of days ago and here is another update.  Well, I just couldn’t stand it that the script couldn’t support sending email over anything but the default SMTP port 25.  I just had to fix that but doing so required basing the script on PowerShell version 3.  The script now requires at least PowerShell version 3 and there are a couple of more parameters.

Documenting a Citrix XenDesktop 4 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell
Posted inPowerShell XenDesktop 5.x

Documenting a Citrix XenDesktop 4 Farm with Microsoft PowerShell

A customer site I was at recently needed their XenDesktop 4 farm documented.  Since I had already created PowerShell scripts to document the various versions of XenApp, I figured a XenDesktop script should be easy to create.  This article and the script were written for “SR” at the customer site.

This article will focus only on XenDesktop 4.  I am planning on writing articles and scripts for XenDesktop 5.x.

Posted inXenApp XenDesktop 5.x XenServer

What is “Citrix”?

The first question usually asked by the Accidental Citrix Admin is "what is citrix?". There are two ways the term "citrix" is used: as a specific product or as the name of a company which provides that product. Usually when "citrix" is mentioned, the term is referring to software used to allow multiple user access to one or more applications hosted on another computer (normally a server).