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Free script parses event logs and compiles client printer autocreation errors

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:12:00 GMT

Everyone knows that one of the challenges of Citrix Presentation Server is that autocreated client printers sometimes don't autocreate. When this happens (or doesn't happen?), the most likely cause is a printer driver mismatch between the client and the server. Whenever the Presentation Server tries...

MFCOM Script: Publish Applications via Windows Explorer 'Send To' Menu

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:49:00 GMT

Andrew Wood has just created this cool script that lets you publish applications on your Presentation Server via the "Send To" right-click menu in Windows Explorer. The first time you use it, you configure which existing published application you'll use as a template (mainly for user permissions)....

MFCOM Script: List number of users for each published application

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:32:00 GMT

Jeff Durbin has written a pretty cool VBS script that calculates how many unique users have access to each published application in a farm, as well as how many unique users have access to the farm as a whole. It then dumps all of this data to an Excel spreadsheet. Below you'll find a screenshot...

Graphing Citrix Session use with open source tools

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:30:00 GMT

In a previous article, I explained the steps taken to configure a Linux Syslog server for collecting and processing Citrix logs for weekly reporting. This article will explain how I enhance the weekly reports with graphs using MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher).

MRTG is a great tool...

Using Linux for Logging and Reporting in your Citrix Environment

Tue, 17 May 2005 03:20:00 GMT

We have been running Citrix for almost nine months. When the system was initially setup, I needed a way to track who was using the Citrix server as well as the number of times the system was accessed. As I had been using a Linux syslog server to collect logs from other systems, I chose to adapt this...

VBScript to Report Application Usage via MFCOM

Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:00:00 GMT

If you're looking for a�way to track application usage that's�less complex than Resource Manager, this article is for you!�This simple VBScript collects�information about farm sessions via MFCOM and exports it�to a database table. Then, with the help of Crystal Reports (or the reporting engine of...

Scripting MetaFrame Data Store Printer Mapping

Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT

This article is the third in Ron Oglesby?s ?Scripting for MetaFrame? series.
In this series of articles I focus on how you can use scripting in a Terminal Server or Citrix MetaFrame environment to automate common and recurring tasks. This article shows a script that uses MFCOM to bulk delete all...

Basic KIX Login Script for Citrix Users

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 06:30:00 GMT

This article is part of Ron Oglesby's Scripting for MetaFrame Series.

In this series of articles I focus on how an you can use scripting in a Terminal Server / Citrix MetaFrame environment for common and recurring tasks. This article covers the basics of using a KIX login script to...

Writing a Script to take a MetaFrame Server Online or Offline

Thu, 27 May 2004 09:10:00 GMT

In this series of articles I focus on how an you can use scripting in a Terminal Server / Citrix MetaFrame environment for common and recurring tasks. This article goes into the details of a set of scripts created to take a server offline by removing it from all published applications and then...