Installing the Citrix Provisioning Services Console on XenApp
-- Great How to by Jacques Bensimon: First, why would you want to do that? Well, besides the obvious ability to manage your Provisioning environment directly from your…
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Quick Tip on Adding Roles and Features to Windows Server 2012 (and Windows 8?)
Unlike Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, which pre-stage all available roles and features during setup for easy addition at any later time, Windows Server 2012 (and…
Have you seen this behavior before?
At two different clients now I’ve come across the following strange IE behavior on Windows 7 (I think IE9, but I don’t know that it’s limited to that…
No video or audio with some media files on XenApp 6.5
If H.264-encoded video (e.g. security camera recordings) or AAC-encoded audio (frequently found in MPEG4/MP4 videos) don’t play right (no video or no audio) on Windows 2008 R2 /…
Rethinking Network Printing (with new PConn2 IPM Utility)
Here is an especially detailed look at Printing, Printer Drivers and Remote sessions by Jacques Bensimon. Added bonus : New IPM utility PCONN2! If you’re like me and…
TS/RDS User Home Directory policy Explained
Here is a nice write up on Setting Home Directories via group policy by Jacques Bensimon. Since I’ve had to deal with this before, I thought I’d review…
Drunk Mouse® when RDPing from a Citrix Session to a Windows 2012 Server
Sure, it’s a deep rabbit hole, but as a consultant I am frequently leveraging Citrix XenApp to get into an environment and then using RDP from that session…
Citrix Provisioning Services & Cisco UCS Blades
By Jacques Bensimon: I recently had to make a provisioned XenApp 6.5 vDisk boot on Cisco UCS B-Series blades outfitted with a Cisco VIC network interface card (probably…
New IPM utility: SetWallpaper.exe
While most of us were busy heating up 7 layer Bean dip and nachos preparing for the championship games, our friend JB was busy coding some new utilities! …