Category: CVAD
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Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops – Commonly used PowerShell commands
Here’s a cheat sheet with some common commands used in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop deployments, along with their explanations: Remember to be careful with the SET, Remove, New, Add PowerShell commands as they can make undesirable changes if you don’t know what you are doing. Always start with a Get 🙂 Of course, start…
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Grayed Out Disk Cache Size in Citrix MCS – XenApp (Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops)
To all the people out there who had issues when trying to create a machine catalog on versions above 7.9 and wondered why the Disk Cache option is greyed out, here is a potential answer to that issue. This is exactly what I ran into while recreating the catalogs for a customer who wanted to…
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Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktops (WVD) or Citrix – The Big Question answered!
Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktops (WVD) has been making a lot of waves in the EUC industry ever since it was announced by Microsoft in September 2018. Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is a desktop and application virtualization solution that runs from Microsoft Azure. Unlike, Microsoft’s previous foray into the application and desktop virtualization markets in the…
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Desktop Restart – Citrix Storefront Power Management
If you have noticed the Restart button for published desktops in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1912 LTSR recently and wondered why in the world Citrix would give users access to users to restart machines, you are not alone. Make no mistake, this is a perfectly fine setting to be enabled out-of-the-box for VDI deployments where…
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Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) – Primer For On-Prem Vs Azure
Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) is a compelling technology these days for provisioning virtual machines quickly and easily in Citrix environments. The whole technology is built around simplicity and requires just a supported hypervisor that utilizes snapshots to create additional VMs on the fly. There isn’t much required from a supporting infrastructure point of view…
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