Category: powershell
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VMware Explore home lab hardware – Part 2
In my previous post, I showed my struggles with installing ESXi on the NUC I got from Cohesity and the vExpert program. In this post, I will show you what I have been up to since then. With a lot of help from the vExpert community, especially Daniël Zuthof and William Lam, I now have the…
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How to cancel a Citrix Scheduled Reboot Cycle
Within a banking company I got the question if it is possible to cancel the daily schedule reboot. Sometimes employees need to work during the scheduled reboot. So they want the ability to cancel this reboot. To understand how the Citrix Scheduled Reboot was working I went online and found a very good blog post…
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PowerShell 3.0 stopped working!?
In a Citrix XenApp 6.0 environment I use a lot of powershell scripts to get things going. For example during logon of a user some scripts are used to copy program settings to the user profile. Under PowerShell 2.0 everything went fine. After the release of PowerShell 3.0 we updated the environment with the latest…
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Automation Machine for Hosted Desktops – Cache Cleaner Tool
At a customer we are using Login Consultants Automation Machine for Hosted Desktops (Former Solution 4). Automation Machine (AM) is described as Management of Citrix and Microsoft desktop infrastructures for experts, by experts. This tool is using powershell foundation and it is based on scripts and XML configuration files. For some parts like software installations and printer driver…
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Citrix XenApp Migration Powershell cmdlets
In my previous post I mentioned the Citrix XenApp migration cmdlets. After some testing I found a bug in the migration tool. I ran the following command. Start-XAMigration -ExportOnly <ServerName> The migration starts and is creating log about what is being exported.
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Citrix XenApp 6.5 disaster recovery
High availability is always a hot topic at the customer but one thing is often forgotten. Disaster Recovery. Recently I had a disaster recovery test on a Xenapp 6.5 environment. Scenario, delete all components. Before starting I had to make sure that the backup was completed successfully. After deleting all components, VM’s, Databases etc… I started the restore. First…