Virtualization, EUC, and Computing in General
Customize NetScaler 10 I have been meaning to create this post for some time – when NetScaler 10.1 was released, there was some confusion around the best method to customize the interface. The previous method involved using scripts to copy the customized files at boot time – see http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX122271 for details. I know many people are already on NetScaler 11, but for those that have not yet upgraded and are still on 10.5 this should be … Read more…
If you are using an LSI HBA in your FreeNAS system and you’ve updated your installation any time recently, you’ve no doubt run into the error on FreeNAS Firmware Version does not Match – this started early with 9.3 when the warning system checked for the mismatch between the driver that shipped with the OS and the firmware on your HBA. When you see this warning, the driver version is indicated – to determine the … Read more…
If you have used Citrix ShareFile, you probably already know that it’s a great product – either standalone, or integrated with the XenMobile Enterprise suite. One place where ShareFile can be a bit tricky is file recovery – file restores are a manual process and involve some PowerShell. Fortunately, there are built in APIs that allow 3rd party solutions to integrate and make restoration a bit easier – for example when your local storage zone is … Read more…
The AppDisk TechPreview bits were released to the public a few days ago – you can download them for yourself if you are a partner or a customer and have active SA or SWM as of September 21st, 2015 – the download is available here. This release is branded as XenApp and XenDesktop 7.7 and includes the following experimental features (as well as some features from a previous tech preview release): AppDisks AppDisks on vSphere … Read more…
If you’ve been putting off upgrading or installing Citrix Storefront 3.0, today might be the day that changes your mind. Why? Because today is the day that Google released Chrome 45 which disables NPAPI completely – no more manual-enable-workaround. From: https://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation September 2015 In September 2015 (Chrome 45) we will remove the override and NPAPI support will be permanently removed from Chrome. Installed extensions that require NPAPI plugins will no longer be able to load … Read more…
After receiving quite a bit of feedback from my first post on Replacing Citrix Edgesight with Goliath Performance Monitor (GPM), I have decided to create a feature-to-feature comparison between Edgesight 5.x, Desktop Director\Insight, and Goliath Performance Monitor. With this comparison, it should be clear that GPM is more than capable of replacing your existing Edgesight deployment and Desktop Director, while a useful utility, it isn’t and wasn’t meant to be an Enterprise monitoring solution for Citrix … Read more…
As of yesterday, MDT 2013 Update 1 is available for download – this is the much awaited update to MDT that allows for deployments using Windows 10. It requires two updates: The Windows ADK for Windows 10 – https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/dn913721.aspx MDT 2013 Update 1 – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48595 The ADK is the largest install – if you have installed the ADK before, you know that the initial file you download is just a setup tool – the actual download happens … Read more…
Well, it’s been fun, Media Center. Your time came a bit too soon if you ask me…I’m referring, of course, to 2009 when Microsoft made the last code changes to Media Center and started slowly dropping features from it – ahem, Sports Experience – since Microsoft Support has even started acting like WMC never existed and the original support article is now gone, I’ll refer you to a post over on TheGreenButton – here. I guess … Read more…
We all want seamless rollouts of Citrix XenApp\XenDesktop and we use a number of tools to achieve that reality. I’ve found a unique software that allows me to proactively understand the performance impact of Citrix XenApp\XenDesktop on the IT infrastructure and ultimately end user experience early in the deployment lifecycle. In this post I will give you 4 examples of how to use the software to avoid potential issues. VDI deployments When large VDI deployments … Read more…
You should already be using the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) for deploying servers in production, in test environments, in lab environments – you get the idea. It’s a simple way to guarantee a reproducible, consistent image every time; and it also provides a decent amount of flexibility for driver installation, application installation and deployment automation (and I love automation). What is even nicer is that you can patch the OS images such that every deployment will … Read more…