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Category Archives: XenApp

Displaying useful connection information on the desktop wallpaper

27-Oct-08

Updated on 2nd December 2008…
Like most IT professionals, I’ve been using Bginfo to embed some useful information in the wallpaper of a users Desktop for some years now. So what you say! Well…not too long ago Warren Simondson of CTRL-ALT-DEL IT Consultancy created a couple of cool utilities called TSBackdrop and PCBackdrop. I was specifically interested in [...]

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Place a XenApp Server in and out of service the easy way

08-Sep-08

The new theory for placing a server off-line is to apply an “Out of service” load evaluator instead of disabling logons. The “Out of service” load evaluator consists of an empty Scheduling rule. The issue with this theory is that if you automate the move of a server into an “Out of service” load evaluator [...]

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Print Spooler Self Healing 1.0

15-Aug-08

Despite the new Health Monitoring & Recovery feature of XenApp 4.5, I continue to implementing a “Self Healing” mechanism for the Print Spooler service.

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Citrix on VI3.x Recommendations and Tuning

13-Jul-08

Here’s a pretty good article posted by Sven Huisman on behalf of Verron Martina from VMware: http://virtualfuture.info/2008/07/citrix-on-vi3x-recommendations/
 Some more notes from Jamie Morrison: http://theether.net/kb/100072

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Citrix Load Evaluators

09-Jul-08

It has always been my opinion that the CPU Utilisation and Page Swaps rules are highly variable, and therefore do not often represent the real load of a server. CPU Utilisation can often be too erratic to provide consistent load balancing. Now days you have the CPU Optimisation feature, or a 3rd Party management app [...]

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Tuning and Tweaking Tips for Terminal/Citrix Server Environments

15-May-08

This is the essentially an index to some blogs and articles for tuning and tweaking Terminal / Citrix Server environments. I am doing this for a number of reasons…

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