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Tag Archives: XenApp

Deployment Script for the Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy Tools

10-May-09
A good friend of mine, Warren Simondson from Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy, writes some awesome tools. There are a particular set I use for all Terminal/Citrix Server deployments I refer to as “User Self-Help Tools”. The below script is what I use to deploy them. Simply add the tools you wish to deploy to an array. [...]

The Bees Knees script for installing VMware Tools

03-Dec-08
Updated 6th April 2010…This is what I call the “bees knees” of scripts for deploying VMware Tools. It will detect if it’s being installed on a Terminal/Citrix Server, and remove the appropriate components that may impede performance, etc.

Displaying useful connection information on the desktop wallpaper

27-Oct-08
Updated on 6th April 2010…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 [...]

Running Logoff Scripts in Novell Environments

06-Aug-08
Working on a big XenApp deployment in a Novell environment I’ve come across a limitation that I’ve always taken for granted in an Active Directory environment. You cannot deploy a Zen policy to run a logoff script. It’s not supported in a “Terminal Server” environment, and does not work. After experimenting with several ideas, I [...]

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 [...]