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If you have to manage many XenApp farm, or just one but really big - it will be worth to have good robust tool for it. As a Citrix guy I should prefer EdgeSight, hopefully I am Microsoft victim and I am going choose SCOM. Why, because SCOM offers active monitoring, it is not only checking the health of my servers it can recover them in many situations. To start monitoring we have to: Deploy SCOM agents on Citrix boxes Mark them as a proxy to forward XenApp events (in my opinion SCOM run as account ......
Last time I posted as an old-school admin. You know what is wrong with old-schoolers ? Not old-schooled but rather outdated way of thinking. Many of us are still living in 80-thies and trying to develop Terminal Services environments in two colors and the highest possible compression level. What is another way of performance tuning? Let disable and remove everything, let will be nothing. Do you need a proof? Ask yourself did you remove the clock from the taskbar. If the answer is yes, you know what ......
I don't know how about you, but for me PowerShell is the only reason to migrate from SCCM 2007 to SCCM 2012. As an old-school SMS and SCCM admin I am not sure about user-centric distribution. Let's say straight. App-V and XenApp are much better in follow me apps, than classic MSIs. OK, let's stick the point. I have about 5 hours of experience with SCCM PowerShell module, and I can say there are pros and cons. What made me really sad: SCCM modules works only in x32 environment. It's a big mistake ......
In XenApp 6.5 you have no GUI for printer replication. Add-PSSnapIn Citrix.*Get-XAPrinterDriver -Servername XAC-1Start-XAPrinterDriverR... -DriverName "Brother MFC-9970CDW Printer" -TargetServerName XAW-1 You can also autoreplicate printer: Start-XAAutoReplicatedPrint... –DriverName "Brother DCP-9055CDN Printer" You can copy the name of the printer by highlighting the name from the printer list and then paste it by right-clicking where it needs to be pasted ......
Let's make it faster … A simple PowerShell script Import-Module Servermanager Add-WindowsFeature Application-Server,Hyper-V,WAS -norestart And of course shutdown –r at the end List of roles and features: Role/Service or Main Feature R/S/F Name Installatiom command DHCP Server DHCP Server DHCP Print Services Print Server Print-Services Internet Printing Print-Internet LPD Service Print-LPD-Service Terminal Services Terminal Services Terminal-Services Terminal Server TS-Terminal-Server TS Licensing ......