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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.

Posted inCitrix Virtual Apps and Desktops PowerShell XenApp 6.0

Deploying Printer Drivers for Citrix XenApp

Printers and printer drivers aren’t an exiting technology as the latest HDX Features in XenApp 7.12 and so on. But every Citrix admin out there has ran into issues with printers and printer drivers at one point or another. And we’ve all been felt the same need at least once: how do I get those print drivers out there without breaking everything?

Sure, XenApp 6.5 has had a driver replication feature for a long time, but that isn’t without flaws… So I wanted something different, something where I was in control.

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.