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July 2008 - The Official Citrix Blog The Official Citrix Blog

  • Installing Ubuntu on XenServer

    I thought I'd kick off my Citrix blog with a question I get pretty often from Linux enthusiasts: how to install unsupported Linux distributions on XenServer 4.1. The most common solution people find is to use the "Other Install Media" template...
    Published Jul 03 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 3,501 views, 0 comments
  • First Virtual Router for XenServer

    And it's FREE! Throw away those behemoths that suck power from every grid in the state and drain your budget. This baby is Free, Open Source and VIRTUAL, meaning you can run as many instances of this router as you want on your choice of hardware...
    Published Jul 11 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 3,216 views, 0 comments
  • High Availability for XenApp

    Does anyone care about having high-availability for their XenApp farms? I would envision many of you would say yes. But what does HA for XenApp really mean? On the server hosting side, you essentially have HA because you have load balancing at the application...
    Published Jul 28 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 3,171 views, 0 comments
  • If You Could Wave a Magic Wand...

    If you could wave a magic wand and have any one single feature in the next release of Citrix XenApp, what would it be? While XenApp has literally hundreds of features that have been added over the last 10 years as the product has evolved from MetaFrame...
    Published Jul 18 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 3,114 views, 29 comments
  • Cloning a XenApp Server with XenAppPrep

    One of my side projects these past couple of months has been XenAppPrep - a tool that will help you clone XenApp servers. This tool plays a key role in rolling out XenApp via Provisioning Server, XenServer, and other image-based deployment technologies...
    Published Jul 17 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,961 views, 0 comments
  • PowerShell and MFCOM - Let's get started

    Microsoft Windows PowerShell command line shell and scripting language helps IT professionals achieve greater control and productivity. Using a new admin-focused scripting language, more than 130 standard command line tools, and consistent syntax and...
    Published Jul 24 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,822 views, 0 comments
  • 2 XenApp documentation tools for Hotfixes and Printer Drivers

    When doing Infrastructure Assessments of customer XenApp environments it happens very often that we find out that the servers are not consistent in terms of XenApp Hotfixes and / or Printer Drivers. This is, as everybody can guess, definitively not Best...
    Published Jul 31 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,657 views, 2 comments
  • Changing the XenServer Management IP Address

    We are all used to the familiar commands to configure IP Addressing on *nix and *dows types of systems, however there is a little bit of a trick involved with XenServer. Imagine if you had built your XenServer in one location and then transported...
    Published Jul 08 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,466 views, 0 comments
  • The Road to Orlando

    No, the title of this post does not refer to a trip to the Mouse Kingdom. And it's not the lost Bob Hope/Bing Crosby movie. Project Orlando is the code name for the next release of Citrix XenServer. Companies don't just use code names because...
    Published Jul 24 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,254 views, 1 comment
  • XenDesktop VDA Configurator 2.0

    I've used the spare time between two projects to create version 2.0 of the XenDesktop VDA Configurator. This version has a better Active Directory browsing mechanism (faster & more reliable), checks for GPO configurations of the Virtual Desktop...
    Published Jul 17 2008 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,069 views, 0 comments
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